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Linking jazz and opera: Charlie Parker's Yardbird in Seattle

By Erica Miner, 22 February 2020

Composer Daniel Schnyder and librettist Bridgette A. Wimberly, both in their Seattle Opera debuts, have done a creditable job of conveying the jazz artist’s lifework.

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Seattle

22 Feb 2020

Linking jazz and opera: Charlie Parker's Yardbird in Seattle

By Erica Miner

Santa Fe

Brenda Rae carries Santa Fe Opera's Lucia

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 21 July 2017

Static blocking and an uneven cast can't kill a Lucia di Lammermoor with a star this bright.

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***11

Santa Fe

21 Jul 2017

Brenda Rae carries Santa Fe Opera's Lucia

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz

London

A moving tribute in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

By Olivia Bell, 9 June 2017

Lawrence Brownlee gives a compelling performance that truly does the groundbreaking saxophonist justice.

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****1

London

9 Jun 2017

A moving tribute in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

By Olivia Bell

Santa Fe

A thoughtful Don Giovanni at Santa Fe

By Maria Nockin, 1 August 2016

In Ron Daniels' production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Santa Fe Opera, the specter of death and the possibility of judgment is always center stage.

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Santa Fe

1 Aug 2016

A thoughtful Don Giovanni at Santa Fe

By Maria Nockin

Philadelphia

He knew why the caged bird sings: Charlie Parker's Yardbird at Opera Philadelphia

By David Browning, 7 June 2015

Great performances by Lawrence Brownlee and Angela Brown in a fantasia on Charlie Parker's life and death.

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Philadelphia

7 Jun 2015

He knew why the caged bird sings

By David Browning