Charlie Parker's Yardbird

Charlie Parker's Yardbird

Hackney Empire

Prijs vanaf € 54.80

Hackney Empire &  English National Opera present the European Premiere of Charlie Parker's Yardbird. In a commission from acclaimed Opera Philadelphia and accompanied by the English National Opera Orchestra, tenor Lawrence Brownlee stars as the legendary saxophonist. 

A segregated hotel. Saxophonist Charlie Parker has just died in the room of a married Baroness. While she tries to stem a media storm, Parker’s ghost appears in a fantastical version of the infamous NYC jazz club Birdland with the aim of composing a last musical masterpiece before the news of his death breaks. A pioneering improviser, Parker can’t pin the notes onto the page without revisiting those who have inspired his creative genius: the women who loved him, his partner in the jazz revolution: Dizzy Gillespie.

A jazz-infused bebopera about deferred dreams and redemption, with music by Daniel Schnyder and libretto from award-winning African American poet Bridgette A. Wimberly, Yardbird is as bold in its artistic vision as Parker was himself. 

Info

Hackney Empire
291 Mare Street
London
E8 1EJ

Duur:
1 hour 30 minutes

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