Lawrence Brownlee (Los Angeles Opera)
Please see commission for opera about Charlie Parker:
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John Malveaux
ArtsBeat.Blogs.NYTimes.com
Opera Philadelphia has commissioned Daniel Schnyder,
a composer and saxophonist who works in jazz and classical music, to
compose a chamber opera about the jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, the
company is expected to announce Thursday. The work will have a libretto
by Bridgette A. Wimberly,
and is being produced in a partnership with Gotham Chamber Opera, in
New York. It is expected to have its world premiere in Philadelphia in
June 2015 in a production directed by Ron Daniels, with later
performances by Gotham Chamber Opera.
The opera, “Charlie Parker’s Yardbird,” is
set on the day Parker died — March 12, 1955 — but takes place in his
imagination as he is dying. The tenor Lawrence Brownlee
will play Parker; Angela Brown, the soprano, will portray his mother,
Addie, and Will Liverman, the baritone, will play Dizzy Gillespie, a
frequent collaborator.
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