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2020

31st May - 21st Jun 2025

Rigoletto at LA Opera

“James Conlon steps up and slaps the defibrillator onto Verdi’s corpse. He raises his baton and reminds the room that Rigoletto doesn’t need saving—just brains and guts at the podium. His reading of the score is tight, alive, and {…}

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08th Mar - 30th Mar 2025

Cosi fan tutte at LA Opera

“[James] Conlon supplies grace and, yes, a glowing spirituality, in the orchestra…you hear it wonderfully.” – LA Times “As conducted by James Conlon and performed superbly by the LA Opera Orchestra, Sunday’s performance {…}

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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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