Overture Magazine - 2015-2016 Season September-October 2015 | Page 37

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Marin Alsop

For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.

Edward
Berkeley

Edward Berkeley,
who directed the
BSO’s 2014 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, has
worked for more than 25 years at The
Juilliard School (primarily as director of
undergraduate opera studies) and teaches
Shakespeare at Circle in the Square Theatre School. On Broadway, he directed
the Tony Award and Drama Desk–
nominated Wilder, Wilder, Wilder and
other award-winning productions. Mr.
Berkeley’s New York Shakespeare Festival
productions include Pericles and “Best
Revival” winner The Tempest. He directed
Beatrice and Benedict at the New York
Philharmonic and John Adams’ El Niño
with the Atlanta Symphony and at Ravinia. Mr. Berkeley has also directed at the
Library of Congress, Williamstown Theater Festival and the Old Globe Theater.
As director of the Aspen Opera Theater
Center, he has directed both classics and
new operas by John Corigliano, Bright
Sheng, Augusta Read Thomas and Bernard Rands. In New York, Mr. Berkeley
directed premieres of Ned Rorem’s Our
Town, Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face
and Ullman’s The Kaiser from Atlantis
(which he also directed in Los Angeles,
Miami, Houston, Spoleto and Ravinia).
Mr. Berkeley was an acting consultant
for the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists Program, a guest
faculty member of Princeton University and Williams College, a returning
distinguished guest professor at Carleton
College and returning guest director at
Rice University. Favorite productions
include his own adaptation of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
L’ histoire du Soldat for the New York
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