The idea for bringing “Dead Man Walking” to Sing Sing emerged several years ago when an inmate promised the renowned singer Joyce DiDonato, who plays Sister Helen in the Met’s production ...

After all the months of uncertain anticipation, "Dead Man Walking" finally had its world premiere Saturday night at the War Memorial Opera House. It was a triumph beyond what even its most ...

Dead Man Walking Through Oct. 21 at the Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan; metopera.org . Zachary Woolfe became The Times’s classical music critic in 2022, after serving as classical music editor ...

“Dead Man Walking” could very well deliver on the latter. Ivo van Hove’s new production is spare and unsparing, its action unfolding within an unadorned holding room designed by Jan ...

Paul Elie on the Met’s new opera production of “Dead Man Walking,” based on Sister Helen Prejean’s book, at Sing Sing, which will be accompanied by a chorus of incarcerated men.

xThe reviews are in for the premiere production of the new Met season, Dead Man Walking. American composer Jake Heggie’s masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years ...