Conlon, James (1950– )

US conductor. He studied at Juilliard and led the first performance of the revised version of Antony and Cleopatra there, in 1975. His New York Metropolitan Opera House debut was in 1976, with Die Zauberflöte/The Magic Flute, and he led Macbeth at the Scottish Opera in the same year and Don Carlos at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1979. He was chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra 1983–91, and of the Cologne Opera in 1989. He made his debut at the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1988, with Macbeth, and conducted Oberon at La Scala, Milan, in 1993.