Opera News Cover Story: “James Conlon: The Maestro and California Dreaming at LA Opera”
The July 2019 issue of Opera News will feature LA Opera Music Director James Conlon in a piece titled “Maestro Moderne” by Adam {…}
He has long been one of 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 July 2019 issue of Opera News will feature LA Opera Music Director James Conlon in a piece titled “Maestro Moderne” by Adam {…}
L’appuntamento mattutino con il Titano di Mahler… L’ha diretto lui. La magia della Creazione di Haydn in salotto… è opera sua. «Non {…}
August 25, 31
Verdi's Luisa Miller with Roberto Tagliavini, Piotr Beczala, Teresa Iervolino, Plácido Domingo, Nino Machaidze, John Relyea
Grosses Festspielhaus
Salzburg, Austria
September 14, 22, 25, 28
October 3 & 6
Marina Costa-Jackson, Saimir Pirgu, Erica Petrocelli, Kihun Yoon, Nicholas Brownlee, Michael J. Hawk, and Patrick Blackwell
LA Opera
Los Angeles, CA, USA
October 11 & 12
Beethoven Egmont Overture and Triple Concerto; Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
Toscanini Auditorium
Torino, Italy
He is a miracle of equilibrium: his dramatic intuition never fails, nor betrays the transparency of the music…
Le Monde de la Musique