James Conlon returns to the May Festival to lead World Premiere work by Julia Adolphe
The World Premiere of Julia Adolphe’s Crown of Hummingbirds will be conducted by James Conlon on Thursday, May 25, at the May Festival. Also {…}
He has long been one of classical music’s most compelling advocates, but somewhere along the way, Conlon has fully assumed the mantle of the most accomplished music director currently on the podium of an American opera house.
Opera News, July 2019
...one of America's leading conductors...
The New York Times
James Conlon, one of today’s most versatile and respected conductors, has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire. Since his 1974 debut with the New York Philharmonic, he has conducted virtually every major American and European symphony orchestra. Through worldwide touring, an extensive discography and videography, numerous essays and commentaries, frequent television appearances and guest speaking engagements, Mr. Conlon is one of classical music’s most recognized interpreters.
Read full bioConlon is the real thing: a master of the orchestra with genuine theatricality and no discernible narcissism.
Los Angeles Times
The World Premiere of Julia Adolphe’s Crown of Hummingbirds will be conducted by James Conlon on Thursday, May 25, at the May Festival. Also {…}
The reviews are in for LA Opera’s presentation of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, and James Conlon “love for the score certainly {…}
September 23-October 15, 2023
Lucas Meachem, Guanqun Yu, Isabel Leonard, Anthony León, Craig Colclough
LA Opera | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, CA
November 16, 2023
Mozart's Overture to "Lucio Silla", Schubert's Symphony No. 5, Beethoven's Symphony No. 2
Teatro Verdi
Florence, Italy
November 22 & 23, 2023
Mozart's Symphony No. 34, Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony Op. 110, Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture and Violin Concerto
Salle Métropole
Lausanne, Switzerland
He is a miracle of equilibrium: his dramatic intuition never fails, nor betrays the transparency of the music…
Le Monde de la Musique