Mark-Anthony Turnage is based on Steven Berkoff's adaptation of "Oedipus Rex". "The Silver Tassie", first performed in 2000, is based on the play by Seán O'Casey. "Anna Nicole", with a libretto by Richard Thomas and first performed in 2011, relates the rise and fall of Playboy model and media celebrity Anna-Nicole Smith. Other works include "Three Screaming Popes" (after the paintings by Francis Bacon), "Your Rockaby" (a concerto for saxophone and orchestra), "Yet Another Set To" (a concerto for trombone and orchestra, dedicated to Christian Lindberg), and "From the Wreckage" (a concerto for trumpet and orchestra, written for Håkan Hardenberger). "Blood on
John Berry (arts administrator) first production was the Opera Greek by Mark-Anthony Turnage. It premiered at the Edinburgh International Festival on the 5 - 6 August 2017. A co-production between Scottish Opera and Opera Ventures, it was directed the Young Vic Artistic Associate Joe Hill-Gibbons and was vastly acclaimed. John Berry and Anthony Lilley OBE, have launched a commercial theatre production company. Scenario 2 will concentrate on developing new work for the West End stage. Berry is married to the mezzo-soprano Pippa Dames-Longworth. He was made a CBE in the Queens Birthday Honours in 2014, for Services to Music. John Berry (arts administrator) John