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Seattle Opera’s Lullaby of Bird

Seattle Opera’s Lullaby of Bird

Thanks to musical pacing issues and stylized staging, 'Charlie Parker’s Yardbird' is a brief opera but not a fast-moving one

Joshua Stewart as Charlie Parker and Angela Brown as Addie Parker in ‘Charlie Parker’s Yardbird’

A Whole New Take on Cinderella

A Whole New Take on Cinderella

Rossini’s take on Cinderella offers a riotous musical ride.

To be clear: This is not the Disney-fied version of Cinderella. There are no glass slippers, no mouse-drawn coaches, no fairy godmother or evil stepmother—Cinderella isn’t even our heroine’s name; she’s called Angelina. But the differences in Gioachino Rossini’s operatic take, La Cenerentola, are all the more reason to see it. First performed in Rome…

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