Emmanuel Villaume

French conductor Emmanuel Villaume has been The Mrs. Eugene McDermott Music Director of The Dallas Opera since 2013. Formerly Music Director of Spoleto Festival USA (2001-2010) and Chief Conductor of both the Slovenian (2008-2013) and Slovak Philharmonic (2009-2016), he has been the Music Director of the PKF-Prague Philharmonia since 2015.

During TDO’s 2020/2021 Season, Villaume conducted May 7, 2021, Viva Diva! a concert marking the return to the company of Joyce DiDonato. Villaume led the company’s acclaimed 2019/2020 productions of The Magic Flute and The Golden Cockerel. Highlighting other previous TDO performances have been Don Giovanni, Samson et Dalila, Eugene Onegin, Norma, Faust, Le nozze di Figaro, and Carmen; the company premieres of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Der Ring des Polykrates, Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Show Boat; and the much-acclaimed 2016 revival of Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick.