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La Stampa

La Stampa Interview with James Conlon: “Beethoven is like the Gospel, always new”

(Translated from Italian. View the original story online here.) The Rai National Orchestra opens the season Friday in Turin October 8, 2019 | Alberto Mattioli Autumn, a time for firsts. The Rai National Symphony Orchestra resumes their season on Friday at the Auditorium and on Rai5, Radio3 and Euroradio live. It’s a season full of great {…}

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LA Opera Blog

James Conlon reflects on La Boheme

(From LA Opera’s Blog) A Note from Music Director James Conlon La Bohème: A Beginning Customarily, I write a program note focusing on the work we are presenting to the public. This time around, exceptionally, I am writing a more personal note. In welcoming audiences back at the beginning of the new season, I particularly want to address {…}

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Jewish Journal

Colburn School Performs Music of Two Jewish Émigrés

In his book about 20th-century symphonic music, “The Rest Is Noise,” Alex Ross writes that in the early 1900s, young European artists were determined to create a “rupture from the world of the present. … This offensive moved on all fronts: music, painting, literature, architecture. … Many of these young people spoke up for the outcasts, {…}

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San Francisco Classical Voice

James Conlon Was Born to Lead

James Conlon first conducted a season-opening production of La traviata for Los Angeles Opera in 2006, the same year the maestro began his appointment as music director of the company, with Plácido Domingo, its General Director, then a tenor. Since his debut with the Verdi classic, Conlon, who has conducted nearly 60 different operas and more {…}

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Cultural Attaché

Conductor James Conlon’s Passion for Verdi

When the LA Opera opened their 2018-2019 season a week ago with Verdi’s Don Carlo, it marked the 50th performance of that opera conducted by James Conlon. But don’t ask the LA Opera’s beloved conductor if he gets burned out doing operas over and over again. Frankly, he’ll tell you that he doesn’t do anything he doesn’t want to do. And {…}

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Classical Voice North America

Season Of Verdi Reflects Lifelong Passion Of Conlon

James Conlon is a having a very Verdi moment. The eminent 68-year-old American conductor will lead 39 performances of the Italian composer’s works in 2018-19, reaching his 500th Verdi performance overall. Conlon’s season starts Sept. 22 at the Los Angeles Opera, where he has been music director since 2006. “This year, for various {…}

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