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About Emmanuel

Music Director: Dallas Opera Music Director: Prague Philharmonia

French-born conductor Emmanuel Villaume has led captivating performances with the most prominent opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world. Emmanuel continues his tenure this season as Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Prague Philharmonia (a position he has held since 2015) in addition to entering his seventh season as Music Director of The Dallas Opera. Emmanuel served as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra (2009-2016), Chief Conductor of the National Slovenian Philharmonic (2009-2016), and Music Director of the prestigious Spoleto Festival, USA (2001 to 2010).

A frequent collaborator with major international opera houses, Emmanuel leads performances at The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Santa Fe Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Liceu Barcelona, Montreal Opera, Teatro Colón, Opéra de Paris, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Opéra de Nice, Opéra Marseilles, Bayerische Staatsoper, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper, Cologne Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Regio di Torino, Martina Franca Opera, Teatro Real Madrid, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and the Klangbogen Festival in Vienna. The 24/25 season will see Emmanuel’s debut with the Wiener Staatsoper with a production of Manon.

Also enjoying a distinguished career on the international symphonic platform, Emmanuel collaborates with esteemed ensembles such as Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and NHK Tokyo.

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Jo Fry

Jo Fry

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Dora Michael

Dora Michael

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Mark Hildrew

Mark Hildrew

Executive Director

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  • Benjamin Bernheim Review

    Aug 2021

    • Supporting Bernheim are Emmanuel Villaume and the PKF—Prague Philharmonia. Villaume is an unparalleled luxury as a conductor, something you don’t always get in aria recitals; listen to the introduction to Edgardo’s “Tombe degli avi miei,” for example to hear the precision and eloquence of the playing, as well as setting the mood with a fine sense of atmosphere. Most importantly, you get the sense that there is a real collaborative effort here between soloist and conductor.

  • La Boheme at the Royal Opera House

    Royal Opera House, London
    Jan 2020

    • Conductor Emmanuel Villaume brings drive and intensity to Richard Jones’s detailed but inconsistent production of Puccini’s brilliantly written opera  [...] But La Bohème is also a conductor’s opera, as Toscanini, who conducted the 1896 premiere, proved for the ages in an electrifying 50th-anniversary recording. In the pit, Emmanuel Villaume is in many ways the star of this revival. He brings the drive and intensity that the opera requires while paying full attention to the care and originality of Puccini’s scoring.

    • All benefit from Emmanuel Villaume’s creditable conducting, well paced and with a care for balancing the orchestra that gives it distinction.

    • The conductor, at least for three quarters of this run, is the Frenchman Emmanuel Villaume, who keeps a very tidy ensemble and whips up some intense playing, particularly from the strings.

  • Cendrillon with thr Metropolitan Opera

    Metropolitan Opera, New York
    Dec 2021

    • Massenet’s music teems with rustling flourishes and pomp, vibrantly led by the conductor Emmanuel Villaume." "The production is a delight...

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