He made his debut at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in Finland with The Flying Dutchman and returned there with Gounod's Faust. Nowadays Vello Pähn is equally in demand as an opera and ballet conductor, he has guested at the Berlin State Opera with Donizetti’s L’Eisir d’Amore and at the Paris Opera in Robert Wilson’s production of Madama Butterfly among others. His premieres there included Gounod's Faust and Romeo et Juliette, Wagner's Tannhäuser and The Flying Dutchman, Cardillac (Hindemith), Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), Arabella (Strauss), Aida (Verdi) and Bernstein’s Candide among others. Last season, Maestro Pähn conducted in Paris the ballet productions of La Nuit Transfigurée and Le Sacre du Printemps and in this season Jewels choreographed by George Balanchine.įrom 2012 to 2019 Vello Pähn was the chief conductor and Artistic Director of the Estonian National Opera in Tallinn. His command of the standard ballet repertoire, Cinderella, Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Onegin made him a popular guest at the Paris, Hamburg, Vienna and Berlin opera houses for over two and half decades. In the early stages of his career, Vello Pähn’s collaboration with the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev and the choreographer John Neumeier led to invitations from the world’s leading theatres and ballet companies. The Estonian-born conductor Vello Pähn began his studies at the Tallinn Conservatory and then in St.

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