FILE - Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon, left, appears during a news conference in Los Angeles on Sept. 6, 2006. Conlon is retiring as music director of the Los Angeles Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a 20-year run that will have spanned half the company's history. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) James Conlon will retire as music director of the Los Angeles Opera at the end of the 2025-26 season, ending a 20-year run that will have spanned half the company’s history. Conlon made the announcement Wednesday, five days before his 74th birthday. He will...