Giacomo Puccini, Tosca, Atlanta Opera, October 2013

“Maestro Arthur Fagen’s interpretation of the score was eloquent and skillful. Few understand the complexities of unifying under a baton the multiple elements that come to life in a work of this kind. Fewer are able to harness them together to deliver a...

Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart, Indianapolis, September 2013

…. the current production of this Mozart masterpiece also scores. From what one hears and sees, conductor Arthur Fagen and stage director Christopher Alexander have truly done their job. Fagen has coached and coaxed both the pit musicians and the two alternating casts...

Carmen, Georges Bizet, Atlanta Opera November 2012

[….] the Atlanta Opera opened its 2012-2013 season with Bizet’s Carmen to an enthusiastic reception on Saturday, November 10. The evening was led by Carl and Sally Gable Music Director Arthur Fagen, whose polished baton emphasized the vitality and sparkling...

IU Opera Theater, Benjamin Britten, Albert Herring

The comic touch is a rarity in the operas of Benjamin Britten, but in “Albert Herring,” one of his earliest works, he displayed it with assurance, making sure along the way, however, that the humor also emphasized what became a lifelong artistic theme for the...