Göran Järvefelt

Göran Järvefelt was one of Sweden's most successful directors and he was the original director of the production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni that was seen here at HGO in 2006. Before he began collaborating with HGO, he had already garnered acclaim for his Mozart productions at Sweden’s Royal Theater in Drottningholm. In the 1980s, Mr. Jarvefelt accepted a commission from Houston Grand Opera to create new productions of the trilogy of Mozart/Da Ponte operas The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. Working with German designer Carl Friedrich Oberle, the director created a unit set that was capable of serving all three productions with a minimal number of changes. The first to have its premiere was Don Giovanni, in 1986 and the other two operas were presented in 1988. All three were revived in the spring of 1991 for HGO's Mozart Festival, which was dedicated to the memory of Mr. Järvefelt. The director worked for many companies around the world, including Welsh National Opera, Komische Oper Berlin, Geneva Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Stockholm Opera, Vancouver Opera, Stuttgart Opera, Opera Australia, and the Royal Opera of Sweden.