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2020

26th Sep - 13th Oct 2024

Madame Butterfly at LA Opera

“James Conlon, retiring after the 2024/25 season as L.A. Opera’s Music Director of 20 years, conducted Butterfly powerfully and accompanied the singers delicately, bringing out the score’s impressionist colors in the Humming Chorus, the {…}

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18th May - 05th Jun 2024

Puccini’s Turandot at LA Opera

“On the musical side, Conlon’s interpretation is insightful and dynamic, based on in-depth research and analysis, which he shares in preconcert lectures before every performance….it was Conlon’s energized conducting that pulled all {…}

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11th Apr - 13th Apr 2024

Mendelssohn Elijah

“While especially feted for his Mozart and Mahler, James Conlon is such an insightful and consistently reliable interpreter of such a wide range of music that his podium gifts tend to get taken for granted. Though somewhat undervalued at the {…}

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06th Apr - 27th Apr 2024

Verdi’s La Traviata

“This Traviata has musical freshness and dramatic urgency, for James Conlon, its conductor, is a musician with a sure feeling for unwritten but essential rubato – the ebb and flow of musical phrase which Verdi’s music needs.” – {…}

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01st Jan - 01st Jan 1970

Recovered Voices at LA Opera: Highway 1, USA and The Dwarf

“[Conlon] found Still’s groove and exulted in everything flowery about Zemlinsky. He is a conductor who so believes in “The Dwarf” that he defies you not to love it — even if you are, like me, melodramatic-adverse. Anyone who can bring {…}

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23rd Sep - 15th Oct 2023

Mozart’s Don Giovanni at LA Opera

“Drama was certainly there in Conlon’s conducting. His sustained emphasis on the ominous D-minor chords that begin the overture felt as much like Verdi as like Mozart — a premonition of La forza del destino, perhaps. And Conlon maintained a {…}

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