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| | Dead Man Walking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Dead Man Walking, the first opera by composer Jake Heggie and playwright Terrence McNally, was commissioned by San Francisco Opera (Lotfi Mansouri, general director) and received its world premiere on October 7, 2000. |
 | | Dead Man Walking is really the stuff of grand opera: It's got overblown pathos, a fraught love story, a far-off location (the Deep South, distant to most of us) and a dramatic death at the end. |
 | | Dead Man Walking has been criticized for not taking any moral stance, but this seems hardly important when you listen to the recording, where the drama as conveyed through the music and the words is all that really matters -- and it matters a lot. |
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