Word: prejean
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...event that was part spiritual awakening, part Southern storytelling and part moral crusade, Sister Helen Prejean, of Dead Man Walking fame, enthralled a packed crowd at the Divinity School yesterday afternoon...
Speaking before a crowd of about 200 in Andover Hall, Prejean offered a strong indictment of the criminal justice system...
...movie-into-opera custom conversion jobs designed to tantalize non-operagoers who don't know Rigoletto from rigatoni. Two years ago, it was A Streetcar Named Desire, with superstar soprano Renee Fleming as Blanche Dubois; now it's Dead Man Walking, with superstar mezzo Susan Graham as Sister Helen Prejean, the spiritual adviser who brings salvation to a death-row inmate, the role for which Susan Sarandon won an Academy Award. The score is by Jake Heggie, a gifted purveyor of bittersweet art songs, and the libretto is by playwright-opera buff Terrence McNally (The Lisbon Traviata, Love! Valour! Compassion...