Reviews

Arthur Fagen dirigió su orquesta acompañando bien a los cantantes y no solo dando las entradas sino intercalando los matices de la trama, de modo sutil y siempre bajo la linea del cantante. En ningún momento la orquesta sobrepaso a un intérprete. Ximena Sepulveda, Pro Opera, July August 2015

Al mando de la orquestra se encontraba el director musical Arthur Fagen, quien como siempre supo destacar la belleza de la musica de Puccini con fuego y serenidad. La sutileza de los violinos y el estrepito de los bronces, junto a las delicadas notas etereas que componian las basas armonicas de este filigrana de sonido, mostraban el alma sensible de este concertador. Pro Opera, January/February 2015Maestro Arthur Fagen led the Atlanta Opera...

Como ya es tradición, el Teatro Campoamor fue el lugar elegido por la Oviedo Filarmonía para dar la bienvenida a este 2015. Dirigida esta vez no por su director titular, sino por el estadounidense Arthur Fagen la orquesta nos presentó un programa típicamente Vienés … la agrupación ovetense trató de dar lo mejor de sí bajo una dirección ciertamente distinta. Tratando siempre de matizar la partitura el director puso especial interés en los...

The orchestra from the first swish of Arthur Fagen’s baton was exquisite. The strings hummed with the sweet sadness layered in Verdi’s score. Listening to the Act 1 prelude carried the audience to Violetta’s party in scene 1. The orchestra played as one instrument while accompanying the vocalists on stage. Kitty Drexel, netheatregeek.com, October 16, 2014The first Act Prelude was gorgeous, replete with ethereal strings and delicately calibrated...

The Chautauqua Opera Orchestra never sounded better, in my experience, than they did under the baton of conductor Arthur Fagen. The intensity of the orchestra was wedded to the swell and fall of the singing on the stage, and it helped very much to create that crucial feeling of being engulfed by the emotions of the opera. Robert W. Plyler, Post-Journal, July 2014

La orquesta fue magnifica desde que Arthur Fagen levanto su batuta hasta que el ultimo trazo de sonido se esfumo en el aire.www.proopera.org.mx, Jorge Luis Flores Hernandez, June 2014 Il maestro Arthur Fagen ha diretto con esperienza comunicando emozione e intensità all’Orchestra del Teatro del Bicentenario, che ha risposto ottenendo ottimi risultati. www.apemusicale.com, Ramon Jacques, May 24, 2014 La Orquesta del Teatro del Bicentenario fue...

Atlanta Opera’s spring production of Faust at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre began in a promising way (seen March 11). It is difficult to overstate the remarkable improvement in the opera orchestra’s playing since Maestro Arthur Fagan joined ranks with the Atlanta Opera as music director. Even a season ago, this would have been a difficult opera for this company and this orchestra: the orchestral writing is highly exposed with solo...

Conductors skills and background the right mix [....] on Wednesday evening a beautifully prepared concert in Auer Hall by the Chamber Orchestra: Rossini's Overture to La scala di seta, Ottorino Respighi's Gli Uccelli and Mozart's Symphony n. 40.Meticulous and warm held true in Wednesdays readings. One discerned wit and effervescence, too, as the orchestra skippedand pranced through the melodies and forged the crescendos in the curtain raiser...

"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 coherent performance that doesn't under or overwhelm and doesn't drown singers with its intensity....Maestro Fagen delivered a wonderful mixture of colors that adequately complimented vocal...

…. 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 of singers; all are true to Mozarts style. The orchestra played withspirit and elan, courtesy of Maestro Fagen, a gentleman who understands the responsibilities of a pit ensemble...