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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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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, 09 June 2017

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

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****1

London

09 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, 01 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

01 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, 07 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

07 Jun 2015

He knew why the caged bird sings

By David Browning