Arthur Fagen enjoys an active career conducting opera and concert in Europe and North America.
Starting the 2002/03 season the Artist is the Music Director of the Dortmund Philharmonic Orchestra and the Dortmund Opera. Following his successful concerts with the Dortmund Philharmonic at the "Grosse Festspielhaus in Salzbourg", Arthur Fagen and the Dortmund Philharmonic had been invited to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Palais de Beaux Arts in Bruxelles. Recent productions at the Dortmund Opera which Arthur Fagen has conducted include: Meistersinger, Don Giovanni , Jenufa, Rosenkavalier, Nabucco & Wozzeck.His upcoming opera productions in Dortmund are Fidelio, a Ring Cycle and the world premiere of Eckehard Mayer's Treffen in Telgete (UA) which will also be performed at the Dresden Music Festival.
Future plans include reengagements at the Teatro Massimo Palermo, the Teatro Bellini Catania, the Chautaqau Festival, the Opéra de Teneriffe, the Braunschweig State Orchestra, the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra, as well as a new production of Martinu's "Greek passion" in Cagliari & Rosenkavalier with the Israeli Opera . In the near future he will be also appearing for the first time with the Oporto Orchestra of Portugal at the Festival de Galicia and the Brabants Orchestra.
A former assistant of both Christoph von Dohnanyi (Frankfurt Opera) and James Levine (Metropolitan Opera), Mr. Fagen's conducted opera repertory encompasses more than sixty operas. Mr. Fagen has conducted at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Munich State Opera, Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, New York City Opera, Teatro Massimo Palermo, Teatro Massimo "Bellini" Catania, Teatro San Carlo Napoli, Opera Capitole de Toulouse, Bordeaux Opera, Frankfurt Opera, Staatstheater Stuttgart, New Israeli Opera, Baltimore Opera, Edmonton Opera, Spoleto Festival and at the Festival Miskolc in Budapest.
On the concert podium, Mr. Fagen's symphonic engagements have included the Czech Philharmonic, Prague Spring Festival, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Munich Radio Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Slovak Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra , Orchestra della RAI (Torino, Naples, Milano, Roma), Orchestra San Carlo, Orchestras of Naples, Genoa, Sanremo, Bergen Philharmonic and Dutch Radio Orchestra among many others.
Mr. Fagen was born in New York where he began his conducting studies with Laszlo Halasz. He continued his education at Wesleyan University and Curtis Institute under the guidance of Max Rudolf. Further studies continued both at the Salzburger Mozarteum and with Hans Swarowsky. Arthur Fagen was 1st Prize winner of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Conductors' Competition as well as prize-winner of the "Gino Marinuzzi Int. Conductors' Competition" in Italy.
Arthur Fagen has recorded for BMG, Naxos, CRI, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SFB and WDR Cologne. |
