James Conlon

Starving artists? Not among the leaders of L.A. arts institutions

2013-05-29 05:00:00

L.A. added two new million-dollar-a-year executives to the ranks of its top-paid arts leaders during 2011, although two existing members of the seven-person club had to get by with less than they'd made in 2010. Increases for Music Center President...

James Conlon to pay tribute to Colin Davis in Paris

2013-05-15 07:35:00

James Conlon, the music director of Los Angeles Opera, will pay tribute to the late conductor Colin Davis in a pair of concerts this month at the Festival de Saint-Denis in Paris. Davis had been scheduled to conduct the concerts, but the renowned...

L.A. Opera will receive $4.3 million for young-artists program

2013-05-02 16:01:00

Los Angeles Opera is receiving $4.3 million in new gifts for its young-artists program. The money is coming from the Colburn Foundation and�Eugene and Marilyn Stein, the company announced Thursday. The young-artists program began in 2006 and is known as...

Review: Conlon conducts an inspired 'Rape of Lucretia' at Colburn

2013-04-05 12:51:00

The Britten year in Los Angeles has begun with a bang. This weekend, you can hear Britten in Walt Disney Concert Hall, at Jacaranda in Santa Monica -- and most of all, in the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall where the ever-on-the-move sparkplug James...

'Cinderella': There's always a party at Chez Rossini

2013-03-16 06:40:00

Inevitably, our tastes change as we grow older. Most of the pop songs that once served as anthems are now exercises in nostalgia, calling up happy ghosts rather than anything new and urgent. The dense romantic adventure novel that we swore by in our teens...

L.A. Opera drama: In minutes, Julie Makerov steps into lead role

2013-03-10 08:27:00

There’s no shortage of drama in the Wagner opera “The Flying Dutchman,” a ghostly love story that opened at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Saturday. But the opening night drama came backstage about 12 minutes before the curtain was to...

James Conlon plans to stay at the Los Angeles Opera through 2018

2013-02-20 18:30:00

James Conlon is a born and bred New Yorker but sunny Los Angeles apparently agrees with him. The 62-year-old conductor has renewed his contract with the Los Angeles Opera for five more years, and will remain music director at least through the end of the...

They conduct classical, but they love pop and rock too

2013-01-05 05:00:00

Ever wonder what longhairs listen to when they let their hair down? Once upon a time, when conductors were regarded as remote intellectual titans, no one would have thought to ask. Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, once described...

For Colburn Conservatory of Music, it's a vision fulfilled

2013-02-16 09:30:00

Before Richard Colburn, music philanthropist extraordinaire, amateur violist and virtuoso businessman, died in 2004 at 92, he had hoped L.A.'s Colburn Conservatory of Music would one day rival the famed Juilliard School in New York and the smaller-size...

Yuja Wang, Pinchas Zukerman and Vienna Phil headline O.C. season

2013-01-28 07:15:00

The 60th season of the Philharmonic Society of Orange County will feature an array of international orchestras, recitals by two of the world’s preeminent female pianists and tap into the Benjamin Britten centenary. Among the highlights for 2013-14:...

'Gangnam Style' by Psy gets opera style treatment

2012-12-24 08:00:00

With more than 1 billion YouTube hits, "Gangnam Style" by the Korean singer Psy is the most popular music video of the year. It has been imitated, parodied and re-purposed by fans around the world. It has been remixed in many different musical styles,...

La Scala opening with conductor James Conlon canceled after strike

2012-12-20 07:09:00

James Conlon, the music director of Los Angeles Opera, was in Milan, Italy, this week to conduct the opening-night ballet performance of Hector Berlioz's "Romeo and Juliet" at La Scala. But as things sometimes happen in Italy, Wednesday's big opening...

James Conlon, the Chicago Symphony's summer music director, has long been celebrated as a master Verdi interpreter. Find out why when he leads a concert version of Verdi's greatest hit, presented in honor of the composer's bicentennial.

2013-05-30 10:10:00

Appointed in 2003 as the company's first music director, Nagano brought a consistent orchestral excellence to the company. He left L.A. Opera in 2006 and was succeeded by James Conlon, who has led the Paris National Opera among other European companies and who continues as music director.

2012-10-20 11:28:00

Music director James Conlon's concert operas invariably rate high among the summer's red-letter CSO events.

2011-06-02 15:25:51