RECORDED INTERVIEWS

  • 2024 WILDSound Film Podcast — Matthew Toffolo interviews Daron about 9/10: Love Before the Fall here.

  • 2024 Lyric Fest Interview — Gabriel Feldt interviews Daron about composing The Art of Song here.

  • 2024 The Sound of Human Rights: Daron Hagen’s Everyone Everywhere UN Web TV here. Mark Shapiro (Music Director of The Cecilia Chorus of New York) and Michèle Taylor (U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Un Human Rights Council) spoke on Zoom in connection with the world premiere performance of Daron Hagen’s human rights cantata Everyone, Everywhere here. Shapiro interviews Volker Türk (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) about the piece here.

  • 2023 Marshall Opera Oral History Interview about the NY premiere of Vera of Las Vegas with Daron Hagen by Trevor Martin here.

  • 2021 WILDSound Film Podcast — Matthew Toffolo interviews Daron about Orson Rehearsed here.

  • 2021 Florida Grand Opera Video — Rafael Porto interviews Hagen about the opera New York Stories here.

  • 2020 Interplay: Conversations in Music — Michael Schapiro interviews Hagen about Orson Rehearsed here.

  • 2020 Capricorn Conversations — H. Paul Moon interviews Hagen about his work and the “Curtis school” of composers here.

  • 2019 Presto: Episode #8 with John Nowacki New England Public Radio – Hagen discusses, and reads from, his memoir here.

  • 2018 Classical Classroom, Episode 181: The Magicians – Hagen discusses Orson Welles and Orson Rehearsed here.

  • 2017 Anniversaries for Lenny — Lara Downes interviews Hagen about Leonard Bernstein’s influence on his career here.

  • 2016 Classical Classroom, Episode 147: Happy Birthday Ned Rorem! — Hagen discusses Rorem’s legacy here.

  • 2016 KeyedUp Project — Marc Peloquin interviews Hagen about his keyboard works here.

  • 2015 A Musical Life with Hugh Sung — Hagen and wife Gilda Lyons discuss their music and life together here.

  • 2015 Classical Classroom, Ep 99: Daron Hagen On Britten And His Budd — Hagen discusses Britten’s opera here.

  • 2014 NewMusicBox: The Human Element — Frank Oteri interviews Hagen about his operas here.

  • 2011 PrivateLessons Interview with Ghenady Meierson — Hagen discusses his career here.

  • 2010 Themes and Variations — Louisville Public Radio host Daniel Gilliam interviews Hagen here.

  • 2010 ClassicallyHip Texas Public Radio — John Clare interviews. Hagen discusses the opera Amelia here.

  • 2010 Arts Digest PBS Television interview with Tom Strini — Hagen discusses his opera Amelia here.

PRINT INTERVIEWS

GENERAL INTERVIEWS

  • 2009 Yale Oral History of American Music "Major Figures in American Music" interview here.

  • Backus, Carolyn. (Interviewer), Oral History Interview about vocal pedagogy; downloadable archival material, English, 1995, Baylor University Archives, Waco, TX

  • Burwasser, Peter. “War Correspondence.” The Philadelphia City Paper. April 17, 1991.

  • Duffy, Bruce. (Interviewer), WNIB 2/20/97, 5/29/99. More information here.

  • Reel, James. "A Conversation with Composer Daron Hagen", Fanfare Magazine (September/October 1999): 128–133

ABOUT FILMMAKING

  • Naxos Explore Classical Music interview here.

  • New York Arts and Cinema interview here.

  • Universal Cinema, Film and TV Journal interview here.

  • Fullshot Cine Mag interview here.

  • Toronto Film Magazine interview here.

  • Wellesnet Movie interview here.

  • Chicago Movie Magazine interview here.

  • F is for Film interview here.

  • OperaSense interview here.

  • OperaWire interview here.

  • Wellesnet Opera interview here.

ARCHIVED LECTURES

  • 2011 Russian Language Workshop Lecture on Tchaikovsky’s Iolante here.

  • 2012 Russian Language Workshop Lecture on Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades (part 1) here.

  • 2012 Russian Language Workshop Lecture on Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades (part 2) here.

  • 2013 Russian Language Workshop Lecture on Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini here.

  • 2014 Russian Language Workshop Lecture on Rubenstein’s The Demon here.

ARCHIVAL VIDEOS

  • Brüning Diane Coburn Daron Hagen Nancy S Jordan Cathy Lee Cawley Chenault Spence Bruno Ferrandis Eric Bradley Wally Cardona Christine Kessler and Patricia McCarthy dirs. 1989. Interior. (Archival DVD of the world premiere ballet score.)

  • Douglas William Tim Purtell Amy Reusch Bill Coleman Amy Schwartz Peter Smith Valerie Striar Paula Swiatkowski Daron Hagen and Université du Québec à Montréal dirs. 1987. -- And the Air. Université du Québec à Montréal Département de danse.