As part of the Ring Festival LA, Maestro Conlon, Music Director of LA Opera, will join ALOUD to discuss Wagner's monumental work, The Ring of the Nibelung, which will receive its first-ever presentation in Los Angeles this Summer.
Afterwards, he'll join Young Literati for cocktails at Café Pinot, in the Central Library's Courtyard.This invitation is also being extended to members of Aria, LA Opera's Young Professional group.
This is a no-host gathering that is complimentary for members of Young Literati and Aria. To RSVP, email youngliterati@lfla.org Non-members interested in attending may do so with a $20 pre-payment. Please call 213.228.7542.
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Central Library
Mark Taper Auditorium
630 West Fifth Street
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Parking is available for $8.00 at the 524 S. Flower Street Garage.
James Conlon is Music Director of LA Opera, the Ravinia Festival, and the Cincinnati May Festival. One of today’s preeminent conductors, he has cultivated a vast symphonic, operatic and choral repertoire, and developed enduring relationships with many of the world's most prestigious symphony orchestras and opera houses. He has appeared as guest conductor with virtually every major North American and European orchestra and has been a frequent guest conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for over thirty years. Conlon has devoted himself to extensive programming of works of composers whose compositions were suppressed by the Nazi regime and for his efforts received the Anti-Defamation League’s Crystal Globe Award. He is the winner of two Grammy awards for conducting LA Opera’s production of Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny on DVD and received France’s highest distinction – the Légion d’Honneur – from then-President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac in 2002.
Unless otherwise indicated, ALOUD programs take place at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
