The mysterious greatness of Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opens the Opera Season of the Teatro Pergolesi in Jesi under conductor Arthur Fagen, on Friday, October 17, and Sunday, October 19.
At this theater, which since 1798 has boasted an unbroken operatic tradition, Don Giovanni has been performed only three times before — in 1988, 2006, and 2014. This new production directed by Paul-Émile Fourny, is a co-production of Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini di Jesi, Teatro Marrucino di Chieti, Opéra-Théâtre de l’Eurométropole de Metz, Neue Oper Freiburg.
Mr. Fagen conducts the Danubia Symphony Orchestra and the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra
This May, Mr. Fagen returns to Europe for two distinguished symphonic engagements. On May 15, he conducts the Rijeka Symphony Orchestra in Croatia in a programme featuring works by Mendelssohn and Mozart, culminating in Schubert’s Symphony No. 8, the celebrated...
