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2020

Musical America

James Conlon Re-Ups at LA Opera

James Conlon has extended his contract as music director of the Los Angeles Opera through the end of the 2024-25 season, which will bring his tenure with the company to 19 years. The 71-year-old native New Yorker and the Los Angelenos seemed to have formed a happy alliance, with Conlon having raised the caliber of the orchestra, not to mention the {…}

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DC Metro Theater Arts

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to play composers silenced by Nazis

Conductor James Conlon talks about his upcoming program of Recovered Voices. Four composers who died in Nazi concentration camps are known to have written entire compositions while imprisoned there, and the Washington–Baltimore region deserves its share of credit in bringing this music to light. The In Series performed Viktor Ullmann’s {…}

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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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