James Conlon extends contract as Music Director of LA Opera through 2025
LA Opera announced the extension of Music Director James Conlon’s contract through the end of the 2024-25 season, which will mark his 19th {…}
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
LA Opera announced the extension of Music Director James Conlon’s contract through the end of the 2024-25 season, which will mark his 19th {…}
Acclaim from Spain With orchestras gradually returning to the stage these past several months, James Conlon has been in demand in both {…}
January 26 - February 6, 2022
JAMES CONLON WILL NO LONGER CONDUCT THESE PERFORMANCES DUE TO COVID-19 TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
Tokyo, Japan
February 10-13, 2022
Beethoven Symphony No. 8 & Wagner Die Walküre: Ride of the Walküre and Final Scene with Christine Goerke and Greer Grimsley
Meyerhoff and Strathmore Halls
Baltimore and Bethesda, MD
February 17 & 18, 2022
Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)
Casino Bern, Grosser Saal
Bern, Switzerland
He is a miracle of equilibrium: his dramatic intuition never fails, nor betrays the transparency of the music…
Le Monde de la Musique