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Estonain-born
conductor Vello Pähn graduated from Tallinn Conservatory in 1981 and
continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Music Conservatory from
1981-1986. Between 1982 and 1994, Vello Pähn was engaged at the Estonian
State Theatre and conducted many opera productions including Carmen,
Madame Butterfly, La Traviata, Hovanštšina,
L'Elisir d'amore, Duenja, Eugene Onegin and Le
Nozze di Figaro.
He has
worked with the legendary dancer Rudolf Nourejev and has subsequently
been invited to conduct ballet productions at many of the world's
leading theatres and ballet companies: since 1992 Mr. Pähn has worked
frequently with the Hamburg Ballet conducting John Neumeier’s
productions of Cinderella, Le Sacre, Mahler's Fifth
Symphony, Othello, Swan Lake and Kameliendame and
since 1988 he has also been a regular guest at the Paris National Opera.
In the
summer of 1996 Mr. Pähn made his debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival
in Finland with The Flying Dutchman (cast including Salminen,
Meyer-Topsoe, Kaludow amongst others) and went on tour with the same
production to the Peralada and Santander festivals in Spain. In 1999 and
2000 Vello Pähn returned to Savonlinna conducting Gounod's Faust.
During the following season he conducted Tschaikowsky's Swan Lake
and Nutcracker at the Dresden Semper Oper as well as Prokofiev's
Romeo and Juliet at the Gothenburg Opera. Vello Pähn's started
the 2002/03 season with the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten and Verdi's
La Traviata in Tallinn. He also made his debut at the Berlin State
Opera with Nutcracker and Swan Lake and at the La Scala
in Milan presenting an all Ravel program.
Recent
engagements include a new Maurice Bejart production at the Paris Opéra
National, a tour to Japan with the Paris Ballet's La Bayadere,
performances in St. Petersburg with the Hamburg Ballet as well as a
production based on Sergei Prokofiev's Ivan le Terrible in Paris
and a tour
with the Savonlinna Festival Flying Dutchman at
Hedeland Festival in Denmark
His
calendar for the coming seasons is filled with performances in Hamburg,
Berlin, Paris and Milan.
In spring
2006 he will conduct Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Donizetti’s
Elisir d’Amore at the Berlin State Opera and make his debut at
the Vienna State Opera with Eugen Onegin ballet. He will also
work for the first time at the Stuttgart State Theatre in a ballet on
music by Edgar Varèse. Following this, he will return to Paris, Vienna
and Dresden and tour in Australia with the Paris Opera Ballet.
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