Seen and Heard International, Rick Perdian

“Equally impressive was Chrystal E. Williams as Rebecca, Parker’s first wife, whom he married when he was fifteen and she three years older. At the end of the opera, Williams was heartbreaking when she sang bitterly that her husband abandoned her and their children for such a place as Birdland, the Manhattan jazz club where he was a headliner.”

Pittsburgh Opera again beats the odds with live performances of Charlie Parker’s Yardbird

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“Chrystal E. Williams, a mezzo-soprano new to Pittsburgh Opera but not to the role of Rebecca Parker, made an excellent impression, and the brief passage she shared with Ms. Muhammad lamenting the challenges of being wife and mother to a troubled black man in Jim Crow America was riveting in its vocal and dramatic intensity.”

onStage PittsburghConnecting Theater Goers and Theater Makers in the Greater Pittsburgh Area“Charlie Parker’s Yardbird” Flies on the Wings of Song at Pittsburgh Opera