“Dead Man Walking” — A modern opera written by Jake Heggie with a libretto by Terrence McNally, based on the book by Sister Helen Prejean, a nun who offered counseling to Joseph De Rocher, a convicted murder awaiting execution for the crime, and presented by Tamara Ryan’s Opera Fayetteville, 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Fine Arts Building, University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville. $18. www.operafayetteville.org.
