Gioacchino Rossini, L’Italiana in Algeri

[……]  And surely, the production’s music director, Arthur Fagen, was a major factor in that achievement. One heard the results of his leadership also in work of the pit musicians, the concert orchestra, which handled the score’s bustle and lyricism...

OCTOBER 2009

Arthur Fagen conducted the Orchester Musikkollegium Winterthur, the oldest Orchestra in Switzerland, conducted in the past by Hermann Scherchen and Wilhelm Furtwängler and connected with composers like Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky and Anton Webern. Mr. Fagen...

SEPTEMBER 2009

Mr. Fagen returned to South America last month to conduct for the second time this year the  Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota performing works by Elgar, Liadoff and Prokofiev.  Soon after Mr. Fagen appeared at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival conducting the NDR...

AUGUST 2009

This month Arthur Fagen returns to South America to conduct the  Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota after his successful appearance in Colombia last May, in two concerts on 14 and 15 of August performing works by Elgar, Liadoff and Prokofiev.  Soon after Mr....

NDR Radiophilharmonie, Schleswig-Holstein Festival

Grandioser Ritt durchs Grenzgebiet … Gemeinsam mit der NDR Radiophilharmonie und der NDR Bigband waren sie [ Sabine und Wolfgang Meyer ]angetreten, um Kompositionen zu präsentieren, die irgendwo zwischen Broadway und Opernhaus ihren Ursprung haben. Gershwins “An...