The Aspen Music Festival and School will honor and remember longtime opera program director Edward Berkeley with a concert at the Benedict Music Tent at 7 p.m. Aug. 7, the organization announced Monday afternoon.
Young performers from the 2021 Aspen Opera Theatre and VocalARTS program will share works in remembrance of Berkeley at the free event. The show will run approximately 75 minutes with no intermission.
Tickets are not required; attendees will be asked to respect protocols and vaccinated and distanced seating sections. The event also will be livestreamed on the Aspen Music Festival and School Virtual Stage and on the organization’s Facebook Page. Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS co-directors Renée Fleming and Patrick Summers will perform an opening selection exclusively for the livestream.
Edward Berkeley with students this month at a master class in the Wheeler Opera House. (Carlin Ma/Aspen Music Festival)
Edward Berkeley with students this month at a master class in the Wheeler Opera House. (Carlin Ma/Aspen Music Festival)
Berkeley with opera students in Aspen in 2016 (Elle Logan/Aspen Music Festival)
Berkeley with students at a 2010 master class (Courtesy photo/Aspen Music Festival)
Aspen Opera Theater director Edward Berkeley outside the Benedict Music Tent (Courtesy photo/Aspen Music Festival)
Longtime Aspen Music Festival and School opera program director Edward Berkeley died unexpectedly on Saturday.
The news was announced from the stage at the Benedict Music Tent on Saturday night moments before a performance of “The Magic Flute,” directed by Berkeley, was to begin. The show went on, dedicated to the director, who was in his 40th season on faculty at the festival.
Edward Berkeley with students this month at a master class in the Wheeler Opera House. (Carlin Ma/Aspen Music Festival)
Edward Berkeley with students this month at a master class in the Wheeler Opera House. (Carlin Ma/Aspen Music Festival)
Berkeley with opera students in Aspen in 2016 (Elle Logan/Aspen Music Festival)
Berkeley with students at a 2010 master class (Courtesy photo/Aspen Music Festival)
Aspen Opera Theater director Edward Berkeley outside the Benedict Music Tent (Courtesy photo/Aspen Music Festival)
Longtime Aspen Music Festival and School opera program director Edward Berkeley died unexpectedly on Saturday.
The news was announced from the stage at the Benedict Music Tent on Saturday night moments before a performance of “The Magic Flute,” directed by Berkeley, was to begin. The show went on, dedicated to the director, who was in his 40th season on faculty at the festival.
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