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CEDRIC BERRY, Bass Baritone, received his music diploma from Interlochen Arts Academy and both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California.\u00a0 He has performed a variety of operatic roles including the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Mephistopheles in Gounod\u2019s Faust, Falstaff in Nicoli’s Merry Wives, Lepporello in Mozart\u2019s Don…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2013-projects","category-50","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicuntold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>CEDRIC BERRY, Bass Baritone, received his music diploma from Interlochen Arts Academy and both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Southern California.\u00a0 He has performed a variety of operatic roles including the title role in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Mephistopheles in Gounod\u2019s Faust, Falstaff in Nicoli’s Merry Wives, Lepporello in Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni, Sarastro in Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, Collatinus in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia and Shaunard in Puccini\u2019s La Boheme.\u00a0 Cedric made his first European stage appearances in Spain, as Jake, in a concert version of Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess.\u00a0 He appeared with LA Opera at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Savonlinna, Finland and sang a concert in tribute to Paul Robeson for the Banlieurs Bleues festival in Paris, France.\u00a0 Cedric gained his first professional experiences with Los Angeles Opera covering roles in a number of operas including L’Italiana, Pagliacci, Tosca, Tristan und Isolde, Le Nozze di Figaro, Carmen, Falstaff,\u00a0 Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, and Don Giovanni.\u00a0 As a Resident Artist with the company Cedric also sang the roles in The Barber of Seville, La Boheme, Samson et Dalila, Faust, La Rondine and Billy Budd.\u00a0 He has appeared with Pacific Symphony, The Arizona Symphony, The Bakersfield Symphony, The Fresno Philharmonic, The Santa Fe Symphony, The Luckman Jazz orchestra, The New West Symphony, The Southwest Chamber Orchestra, The Pasadena Pops Orchestra, The California Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.\u00a0 He has been the recipient of several awards including first place in the Metropolitan Opera Western Region Competition.<\/p>\n