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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passed last summer as an unfunded mandate, with the exception of $617,478 in highway users tax fund dollars given to the Colorado State Patrol.
The bill sets a deadline of July 1, 2023, for compliance and outlines penalties for agencies and officers who fail to use body cameras after this date.
“We don’t have a choice about doing this,” van Beek told Eagle County Commissioners during a presentation at their June meeting. “We have to go forward with this, and we will do everything we possibly can to control the costs.”
The body camera program is expected to cost about $600,000 over the next five years, a number which does not include the personnel costs associated with managing and reviewing the footage, van Beek said.