New York City Premiere of "Dead Man Walking" Opera

    September 13, 2002, will mark the New York City premiere of the acclaimed opera "Dead Man Walking," based on the prize-winning book by Sister Helen Prejean. The opera and the book, as well as the film of the same title, follows Prejean's journey as a Louisiana nun who became the spiritual advisor to a death row inmate. Composed by Jake Heggie, the opera was hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a "gripping, enormously skillful marriage of words and music to tell a story of love, suffering and spiritual redemption."  The opera will run through October 2, 2002.