Tag: James Conlon
Will Numi Opera Be Dwarfed by the Competition?
"It was not necessarily related to what is or is not here in Los Angeles. It was just something that I felt I needed to do as a person of Jewish extraction."
Conductor James Conlon’s Passion for Verdi
"Why can I not live without Verdi? It's because opera is how I heard my first classical music."
Matthew Aucoin Opera Conductor
"You can feel in the power and beauty of the music for Rigoletto that he could have been a loving, openhearted person."
Composer Nico Muhly Registers His Organ Concerto
I always resist making my music overtly political because I think writing classical music is overtly political