Current music director of the Los Angeles Opera and principal conductor of the RAI National Symphony of Turin, Italy, James Conlon has had an international career that has taken him to the Metropolitan Opera, the Paris Opera, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the city of Cologne, and the Cincinnati May and Ravinia festivals. A constant theme of his career has been the championing of composers silenced, imprisoned, or killed under the Third Reich; for these efforts he’s been recognized by the Anti-Defamation League, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and the Zemlinsky Prize.
Join James Conlon as he leads us on an exploration of music from a lost generation – works forgotten in the shadows for decades. He will illuminate the stories and legacies of composers including Alexander von Zemlinsky, Franz Schreker, Victor Ullmann, and Erwin Schulhoff, in a special program to celebrate this rich, revived musical heritage.
Featuring excerpts from Alexander von Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid, Viktor Ullmann’s one-act chamber opera, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Emperor of Atlantis), Erwin Schulhoff’s Hot Sonata for Saxophone and Piano and the Prelude to Franz Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten (“The Stigmatized”).
