SearchEmmanuel Villaume continues to lead captivating performances with the most prominent opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world. Entering his eighth year as Music Director of The Dallas Opera, Villaume guides two productions at the Winspear Opera House this season, Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and Verdi’s Don Carlo. He also serves as the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the PKF Prague Philharmonia, a position he has held since 2015. Last season, Maestro Villaume led critically-acclaimed performances of The Magic Flute and Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Golden Cockerel at The Dallas Opera. He had been scheduled to return to both the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera to conduct Puccini’s La bohème and to make his Teatro di San Carlo debut with a new production of Carmen, prior to COVID-19-related cancellations. However, Maestro Villaume did conduct highly praised performances with harp soloist Yolanda Kondonassis at the 2019 Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago and Massenet’s Don Quichotte at Deutsche Oper Berlin. He continues to do extensive work onstage and in studio, and, for his collaboration on the Deutsche Grammophon release, Benjamin Bernheim, Germany’s Opus Klassik nominated Emmanuel Villaume as 2020’s “Conductor of the Year.”
