Twenty-five years ago, a new opera titled “Dead Man Walking” made its world premiere in a San Francisco Opera production. Based on the same-titled 1993 memoir by author and activist Sister Helen ...
The story of Gilgamesh has survived 4,000 years. Now it arrives on a California opera stage, partly sung in the language it ...
Jamie Barton as Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s ‘Dead Man Walking.’ (Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) For the past week, the U.S. government has demanded that Americans ...
The opening scene of “Dead Man Walking” immediately garnered discomfort: Dark, unsettling music echoed throughout the auditorium as two teenagers’ risqué lakeside rendezvous became the site of ...
Beth Morrison Projects’ The Old Man and the Sea will be presented at the Mershon Auditorium on October 10 and 12, 2025. Composed by Paola Prestini with a libretto by Royce Vavrek, the opera reimagines ...
A full quarter century after the premiere of "Dead Man Walking" here on the War Memorial Opera stage, it's hard to overstate the impact that Jake Heggie's first major offering has had, both on his ...
Thinking about watching 'The Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking' tonight? Pinpointing where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent the Ivo van Hove directed movie can be confusing so ...
It may be the world’s first opera based on a comic strip. Based on the animated serial by Shannon Wheeler, “Too Much Coffee Man Opera” follows our caffeinated hero, Too Much Coffee Man, as he trudges ...
It’s one thing to be a multi-disciplinary artist tackling traditional and experimental works and your own creations. That’s impressive but happens. It’s quite another to craft wildly diverse opera and ...