James Conlon

59 pieces since 2009 — at 9 companies, most often at LA Opera.

59 pieces
9 companies
18 years

1 piece as Maggio Musicale Fiorentino — stats above show all coverage for James Conlon.

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The life of Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is almost as melodramatic as that of its heroine. Composed in the early 1930’s, the opera was well received at its 1934 Leningrad premiere, and was also a success in Moscow a couple of years later. Then one evening Stalin came to see it and […]

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