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Nearly three decades ago, a nun wrote a bestseller about counseling a man sentenced to death for killing two teenagers.

In 1995, Sister Helen Prejean’s Dead Man Walking inspired a film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn. In 2000, composer Jake Heggie and playwright Terrence McNally premiered their opera adaptation in San Francisco. Twenty-five years later, that opera has returned and will be performed through Sept. 28.

As operagoers remarked during intermission on opening night, the subject matter is “intense.” There is a minute and a half of silence at t

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