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	Dead Man Walking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dead Man Walking is a work of non-fiction by Sister Helen Prejean, a Roman Catholic nun and one of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille.
		It was also made into an opera with the same name, composed by Jake Heggie from a libretto by Terrence McNally which premiered at the San Francisco Opera in October 2000.
		The international premiere of the opera was in January 2006, at the Calgary Opera in Calgary, Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Man_Walking (271 words)

	Dead man singing - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Grand opera normally culminates in the tragic and untimely death of the heroine; "Dead Man Walking" serves up a dead man. Perhaps most important, the way to the heroine's inevitable and cathartic sacrifice should be strewn with lavish, colorful sets, exotic dance interludes and outrageous and expensive costumes.
		Taken in the context of the operatic tradition, "Dead Man Walking" is either a misguided abuse of the genre or a radical reworking of operatic stagecraft.
		"Dead Man Walking's" journey into operatic no man's land is made all the more audacious by the fact that none of the principal creators had prior experience in the art.
	dir.salon.com /ent/feature/2000/10/11/dead_man/index.html?sid=986691 (585 words)

	Dead Man Singing
		From the beginning of the process, she said, "I supported the idea of an opera, because I knew that to bring the fullness of drama and music together was going to take the audience on the ride of their lives...
		The play demonstrates that opera is more than merely a recreational pursuit of the moneyed elite; it is a valid and powerful form of artistic expression, and a medium for telling stories integral to our social fabric.
		The story of "Dead Man Walking" is reflective of the human condition - of violence, suffering, healing, and forgiveness.
	www.thomasmertoncenter.org /the_new_people/May2004/dead_man_singing.htm (710 words)

	The Austin Chronicle : User Comments
		How Dead Man Walking came to be an opera -- and to be produced in Austin before almost every other city in the world -- reveals the great risks and rewards in developing new works for the modern operatic stage.
		Dead Man Walking, adapted by Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally from the book by Sister Helen Prejean, brings to this place a killer about to be executed and the nun serving as his spiritual adviser.
		Because Dead Man Walking treats a topical issue and because its central character is based on a living person who campaigns most actively on that issue, the art of the work is sometimes eclipsed by the politics in it.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/ReaderComments/?ContainerID=116520 (3254 words)

	David Gregson's Opera West
		In fact, the opera, under the strong stage direction of Leonard Foglia, is much more brutal than the film in the way the murders are presented.
		The man on the execution table on that first SFO occasion, baritone John Packard, was back for more punishment at Opera Pacific.
		The Act One climax, with a weary and hallucinatory Sister Helen fainting at the prison's Coca-Cola machine (with everyone in and out of her life singing at her), is one of the most effective scenes to be seen anywhere in any theatre during the past 20 years.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/deadman.shtml (1073 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| Dead man singing
		Frederica von Stade, a San Francisco Opera fixture, expertly filled out one of the opera's most successful characterizations as de Rocher's mother, whose breakdowns are that much more effective for her attempts to put on a brave face in front of her condemned son.
		The opera ends with Sister Helen's a capella rendition of a spiritual, "He Will Gather Us Around." Introduced with her entrance and heard in bits and pieces throughout the opera, it is the only tune likely to make it home with audience members.
		The oft-repeated theme is meant to be the opera's emotional lynchpin, charged with summoning all the work's pathos and kindling a redemptive spirit at its otherwise dismal conclusion.
	archive.salon.com /ent/feature/2000/10/11/dead_man/print.html (1328 words)

	'Dead Man Walking' packs powerful punch 04/18/02
		"Dead Man Walking" is for those who want to experience by the force of a powerful piece of music with a story that makes opera accessible to non-opera fans and forces viewers to grapple with one of the difficult issues that face American society today.
		The opera is based on a novel of the same name by Sister Helen Prejean, who was asked to be the spiritual adviser for a death row prisoner who was convicted and finally executed for a vicious rape and murder of two teens.
		This is Foglia's first opera and Jepson said that after working with him he is right up at the top of her list of opera directors she likes to work with.
	www.irvineworldnews.com /Bstories/apr18/dead.html (1084 words)

	Pittsburgh Opera takes stroll down death row - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		The opera is based on Prejean's work as spiritual counselor to Joseph De Rocher and begins with the brutal murder and rape that led to his death sentence.
		Mauceri compares "Dead Man Walking" to the operas "Fidelio" and "Turandot," adding that the gender roles are reversed in Puccini's opera, where princess Turandot is the hurtful wounded person who is rescued by a man's love.
		"Dead Man Walking" confronts the death penalty where the "guilty" party is unquestionably guilty.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_196808.html (894 words)

	Dead Man Walking (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dead Man Walking is the first opera by Jake Heggie, with a libretto (based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ) by Terrence McNally; it was premiered by San Francisco Opera on October 7, 2000, with Susan Graham as Sister Helen, John Packard as Joseph De Rocher, and Frederica von Stade as Mrs.
		After the children leave, Helen reveals to her colleagues that she has heard from an inmate she has been corresponding with, asking her to be his spiritual advisor, and that she has decided to accept.
		Helen responds that it is her duty to attempt to help the man. Father Grenville leaves her to meet with Warden Benton, who asks many of the same questions and also criticizes her decision.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dead_Man_Walking_(opera) (1547 words)

	Scene4 Magazine \| Dead Man Walking and Lysistrata \| Karren Alenier \| April 2006
		Based on Sister Helen Prejean's book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, McNally's libretto is a masterpiece of deftly woven pragmatic and sublime dialogue that artfully uses image, pop culture, aphorism and cliché.
		However, by the end of the opera, through seemingly small incidents and Heggie's lyricism, the audience understands how Sister Helen is able to overcome her own revulsion and love a man who committed horrific brutalities in order to bring him to God for forgiveness.
		The similarities between these two operas, such as balancing serious with comic (or vice-versus), addressing political fraught issues, and using a feminine lens to present these stories, are making them appeal to a wider audience (hopefully newcomers and younger operagoers) who in turn are making these new works part of the repertory of American opera.
	www.archives.scene4.com /may-2006/html/alenierrevmay06.html (915 words)

	Baltimore Opera Company
		American opera houses are too often thought of, especially by Europeans, as cherishers of the old and enemies of the new.
		Dead Man Walking is Heggie's first opera, and it very obviously marks a milestone in the composer's emergence before a wider audience.
		Joseph De Rocher, the “dead man” of the opera, is a fictional victim, a composite character drawn from several of the Death Row prisoners whom Sister Helen Prejean wrote about in her remarkable 1993 book Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, on which the opera is based.
	www.baltimoreopera.com /education/studyguide/deadman_05.asp (1015 words)

	Dead Man Walking
		Dead Man Walking : An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States
		"Like the stage version, the CD captures the humanity and anguish that elevated the opera above the controversial issue of the death penalty that was at the core of Sister Helen's book and the subsequent film adaptation.
		The musical and lyrical grandeur of the opera was acclaimed at its premiere and this CD provides listeners who weren't there the opportunity to judge for themselves," said R. Deutsch on 10 January 2002 at
	www.johnrpierce.com /deadmanwalking.html (224 words)

	A series of San Francisco Opera Design jobs by Mario Savioni
		Work for the San Francisco Opera began with a poster design to illustrate the new opera composed by Jake Heggie, who I was assisting Rosa Lau in photographing for Opera News Magazine.
		Dead Man Walking Opera composer Jake Heggie was kind enough to say: "It is my great pleasure to offer my high opinion of Mario Savioni as a gifted graphic artist and a valuable colleague.
		SF Opera was also hosting the retirement Gala of General Director Lotfi Mansouri.
	www.savioni.com /sfop.htm (456 words)

	Opera Preview: 'Dead Man Walking' confronts the issue of capital punishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He sees "Dead Man Walking" as a work "in the grand tradition of rescue operas like Beethoven's 'Fidelio,' in which the pure feminine element rescues the wounded male." De Rocher's redemption does not shield him from death, but it is redemption nonetheless.
		Although not as involved in the opera as she was with the film, Prejean got Heggie's ear about the music.
		"Dead Man Walking" is "tonally based and very much influenced by musical theater, my first love," says Heggie with uncommon candor for a composer.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04155/325999.stm (1368 words)

	Dead Man Walking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Sister Helen Prejean's account of the executions of two different deathrow murderers is intensified by the weeks she spent as a "spiritual adviser" to each man before his death.
		DEAD MAN WALKING was originally published in 1993 and was later made into a major motion picture.
		The opera, which was premiered by the San Francisco Opera in the fall of 2000, received critical acclaim.
	www.sonic.net /~barny/deadman.html (423 words)

	STATE OPERA SOUTH AUSTRALIA :: opera seasons :: Dead Man Walking
		The best-selling novel, Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, that became an Academy Award winning film in 1996, is now a brilliant new opera.
		Dead Man Walking is her moving account of their moral and spiritual journey while preparing for his execution.
		Few operas burst onto the scene as dramatically as did Dead Man Walking at its San Francisco Opera world premiere in October 2000.
	www.saopera.sa.gov.au /site/2003_deadman/2004_features_adelaide.htm (395 words)

	Opera Review:'Dead Man Walking' makes for a riveting ride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It's not every day you see protesters outside an opera, but that's the potency of the debate over the death penalty and the gripping imagery of "Dead Man Walking." Opening Saturday night in a Pittsburgh Opera production, it showed that the contemporary opera stage can indeed participate in socially relevant discussions.
		There is much, therefore, to commend "Dead Man Walking." I valued the score's accessibility (it is also harmonically intriguing), its versatility and its setting of English.
		Also, the most crucial lines in the opera tended to be spoken or at least not fleshed out in song, such as De Rocher's confession or his execution.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04159/327997.stm (752 words)

	Amazon.com: Dead Man Walking (Live recording of 2000 world premiere production): Music: Jake Heggie,Susan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The recording was made during the San Francisco premiere of the opera and has all the intensity of a live performance, in addition to the overwhelming power of the story and the music.
		As opera houses move toward commissioning playwrites such as McNally and William Hoffman as librettists the things that distiguish the particular art of the librettist are dying out.
		I think that this opera (or it's subject more generally) gets to the heart of the entire debate about capital punishment - if we could devise a test that was perfect in its ability to distinguish the guilty from the innocent, would we still be willing to execute people for horrendous crimes.
	www.amazon.com /Walking-recording-world-premiere-production/dp/B000059ZHR (1845 words)

	Playbill News: SF Opera Commissions Heggie-McNally Dead Man Walking for 2000
		The opera is to be directed by Colin Graham and conducted by Patrick Summers.
		Dead Man Walking is part of San Francisco Opera's "Pacific Visions" program to replenish the opera repertoire through new commssions.
		Dead Man Walking composer Heggie, 36, an up-and-comer in classical music circles who was a winner of the G. Schirmer National Art Song Competition in 1995, has written works for leading American singers including Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Von Stade, Brian Asawa and Jennifer Larmore (Larmore's recent CD, "My Native Land," features five Heggie songs).
	www.playbill.com /news/article/37673.html (498 words)

	Dig Into the Issue: Sister Helen's Story - Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project, Death Penalty Discourse Network
		DEAD MAN WALKING, challenged the way we look at the death penalty in America.
		DEAD MAN WALKING: AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE UNITED STATES, was published by Random House in 1993.
		Actor, director, playwright Tim Robbins made the film DEAD MAN WALKING, nominated for four Academy Awards, with Susan Sarandon winning the Oscar for "Best Actress" for her portrayal of Sister Helen.
	www.deadmanwalkingplay.org /helenstory.html (525 words)

	When a Book and a Movie is Not Enough: Dead Man Walking -- the Opera. Feature Story
		With all the discussions on Sister Prejean's story that took place back in the 1990s, I was surprised to see a new treatment: "Dead Man Walking -- the Opera," composed by Jake Heggie with Terrence McNally as librettist.
		The character of Prejean - torn between her horror of crime, her sympathy for the victims, her frustration with the system and the moral requirements of her faith - is a tragic figure.
		Underneath his sullen tough guy exterior, convicted murderer Joseph De Rocher is a scared and lonely man. The interplay between these two figures is perfect fodder for a theatrical stage.
	thecelebritycafe.com /features/1506.html (564 words)

	ionarts
		The opera, like the excellent film of the same title (Dead Man Walking, 1995, directed by Tim Robbins, with Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn), is based on a book by a nun from Louisiana.
		The opera has left most audiences rapturous, and few operas in the last decade or two have had nearly the success of Dead Man Walking, if we measure an opera's success in terms of the number of performances it gets.
		Having the guard simply shout "Dead man walking!" and having the execution sounds be only the clicks and beeps of the medical machinery betray that fundamental rule.
	ionarts.blogspot.com /2006/03/dead-man-walking.html (1608 words)

	And Then One Night, The Making of Dead Man Walking: Creative Process: The Players: Jake Heggie: Transcript (via ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And it was a big surprise to me, actually, how I wound up ending it because the opera, there's a big orchestral and choral ensemble at the end when he's on his final walk where everyone is singing the Lord's Prayer in their own version, from different sides of the stage.
		The soloists, since they got their music last October, the final score based on their own learning schedule and timeline and what they have time for, have been learning their parts so that when they come in September for the first rehearsals, it'll be pretty much memorized and learned.
		They'll have the entire opera under their belt so that Joe Mantello can then work with them to get the motivation and the spirit of their character solidly in place according to his vision and according to what they do.
	www.pbs.org.cob-web.org:8888 /kqed/onenight/creativeprocess/players/heggietran.html (1314 words)

	Dead Man Walking News
		Dead Man Walking News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		In the flick Dead Man Walking, Hollywood actor Sean Penn beautifully brings alive in his character the emotional pangs of a convict awaiting death by execution.
		The Dead Man Walking actress made quite an entrance when she turned up for the ceremony in Marrakech Photo: AFP Click on photos to enlarge Hollywood heavyweights Martin Sheen and Lawrence Fishburne share...
	www.topix.net /movies/dead-man-walking (694 words)

	Dead Man Waking on Compact Disc
		The spectacular success of San Francisco Opera's Dead Man Walking laid to rest any skepticism about the viability of capital punishment as a subject for opera.
		Until this opera, which is his first, Heggie has been known as an American master of song.
		The theme of the opera is universal, but the idiom is unmistakably American - from the vivid first libretto by prize-winning playwright Terrence McNally, to the bits of pop and rock and gospel that add elements of surprise to the sweeping cinematic quality of the music, convincingly delivered by an outstanding all-American cast and orchestra.
	www.ffaire.com /dmw/deadmancd.html (453 words)

	OperaGlass: Dead Man Walking
		In particular, it concerns a man who was convicted of brutally murdering a young couple after raping the woman.
		Dead Man Walking deserves to be heard by other audiences as well.
		Opera Pacific has scheduled it for its 2001-2002 season, and Erato has recorded it for release later this year.
	opera.stanford.edu /reviews/dead_man.html (971 words)

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