A good example of this new approach was the success of Mike Leigh's production of The Pirates of Penzance, which broke box office records. In December 2013 ENO announced a new relationship with Altive Media to take ENO's productions into cinemas. ĭespite Berry's skepticism about cinema relays of operas in May 2012. This controversial piece was performed to great critical acclaim. ENO performed a new production of John Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer in February 2012. Berry championed major American composers during his time, including John Adams, Philip Glass and Nico Muhly. His acclaimed co-producing policy extended ENO's reach to more than 40 opera houses around the world, the most prominent being the relationship with the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, which resulted in more than a dozen opera collaborations, including the recently acclaimed Akhnaten (Philip Glass) and Porgy and Bess (Gershwin). As ENO's artistic director, he brought in artists from outside the opera world into ENO productions, including film directors ( Anthony Minghella, Terry Gilliam, Penny Woolcock, Mike Leigh), theatre directors ( Rupert Goold, Simon McBurney, Fiona Shaw and Improbable Theatre), visual artists ( Matthew Barney, Anish Kapoor) and choreographers (Mark Morris, Michael Keegan Dolan). The last appointment was controversial, as the ENO board made the appointment without external interviews. He became Director of Opera Programming in 2003, and was subsequently named ENO's artistic director in November 2005. He instigated the first 'Jerwood Young Artists Programme', which later developed into 'The ENO Harewood Artists'. In 1995, Berry joined English National Opera (ENO) as casting director, and served in the post from 1995 to 2003. He then founded the Brereton International Music Symposium, and served as its director from 1990 to 1997 working with artists such as Thomas Hampson, Birgit Nilsson and Brigitte Fassbaender. He was unable to continue playing the clarinet professionally after his illness, and redirected his career to arts administration.īerry served as the founding director of the Sounds Alive Music Centres from 1986 to 1993. In 1984, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease, and returned to the UK for successful treatment at The Christie Hospital in Manchester. Berry graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music in 1983, and subsequently studied with Gervase de Peyer, supported by a scholarship to the Mannes College of Music in New York City.
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