A bird’s final flight
- In that empty twilight between life and death, tortured jazz soloist
Charlie Parker composes his final masterpiece, revisiting the inspirations,
demons, and women who fuelled his creative genius.
Opera Philadelphia presented the World Premiere of this
freeform expedition into the mind, heart, and personal purgatory of the bebop
great.
Lawrence Brownlee stars as the legendary saxophonist—a role
crafted around the effortless, improvisational style that makes him one of
music’s most sought after tenors; soprano Angela Brown mesmerizes as his
mother, Addie Parker, and baritone Will Liverman debuts as beret wearing jazz
icon Dizzy Gillespie.
Set in the famed NYC jazz club Birdland, the opera is as
uncompromising in its artistic vision as the “Yardbird” himself.
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