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Daniel Berry

Daniel Berry is a native of Dearborn, Michigan, and comes from a family of musicians. He sang his first public performance at the age of seven. Mr. Berry attended the University of Michigan, where he was a pupil of Metropolitan Opera baritone Ralph Herbert and conductors Josef Blatt and Maynard Klein. He made his professional debut in 1975 as Dr. Bartolo in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro with the Milwaukee Opera Company. Mr. Berry initially combined a singing career with parallel vocations as voice teacher and conductor. He taught at Ferris State College, The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Alverno College and The Conservatory of Music. As a performer, Mr. Berry has appeared with the Florentine Opera of Milwaukee, Skylight Comic Opera, Peoria Civic Opera, Northern Indiana Opera Association and Music Under the Stars. He has performed as soloist with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Peoria Civic Orchestra, Bach Chamber Orchestra and many others, and is an acclaimed recitalist. Mr. Berry debuted with the Knoxville Opera Company in 1983 as Angelotti in Tosca, and has appeared with the company almost every season since then. He first appeared with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in the spring of 1994 in Handel's Messiah. Praised by critics as both singer and actor, Daniel Berry has a repertoire of over fifty comic and serious operatic roles.