Sister Helen Prejean returns to the San Francisco Opera House 25 years later. Photo by Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera. Nearly three decades ago, a nun wrote a bestseller about counseling a man ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Stephen Wall, tenor and longtime Seattle Opera Chorus member, is retiring after the company's upcoming "Tosca" performances. Wall also became known as Ballard Opera Man, when he performed in his front ...
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