Emmanuel Joel-Hornak (Conductor)
Emmanuel Joel-Hornak made his musical studies at the Conservatoire National
Superieur de Musique de Paris, and has led major orchestras around the world in
opera and orchestral works. He recently conducted productions with English
National Opera, Aix-en -Provence Festival, NBR New Zealand Opera, Scottish
Opera, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, L'Opera de Paris-Bastille, the Wexford
Festival, as well as the conducting the leading opera companies of Lyon, Nantes,
Montpellier, Toulouse, Sydney and Strasbourg. He made his United States opera
debut in San Francisco Opera's production of Carmen during the
1996-1997 Season, and was immediately re-engaged to conduct San Francisco’s
productions of Don Carlo and La Boheme in the following
seasons.
Maestro Joel-Hornak’s American career continues in recent years
with La Traviata at the New York City Opera, Werther at the
Los Angeles Opera with Ramon Vargas, Faust with Cincinnati Opera,
Don Pasquale with Simone Alaimo and Ruth Ann Swenson at the Los Angeles
Opera, Manon with Elisabeth Futral at the Houston Grand Opera,
Samson et Dalila with Olga Borodina and Sergey Larin with the San
Francisco Opera, Vanessa at the Washington National Opera with Kiri Te
Kanawa, Romeo et Juliette at the Pittsburgh Opera with Marcello
Giordani, La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein with Opera Company of
Philadelphia, and a return to the Houston Grand Opera for Romeo et
Juliette with Ramon Vargas and Ana Maria Martinez.
Noted engagements
from recent seasons include Carmen at the Royal Opera of Stockholm,
Thais at the Barbican of London with Elisabeth Futral, Massenet's
Don Quixote, Les Pecheurs de Perles and La Boheme
with the English National Opera, Werther at the Oslo Opera, Pelleas
et Melisande in Gothenburg, Manon and Il Trovatore at the
Sydney Opera, his Tiroler Landestheater debut in Innsbruck with Don
Carlo and Massenet’s Cherubin, Carmen at the Royal Opera
of Stockholm, Pelleas et Melisande in Toulouse, Les Dialogues des
Carmelites in Gothenburg and Oslo, Ernani with the Nederland 's
Reise Opera, Il Trittico in Nantes, Berlioz's Beatrice et
Benedict in Lausanne, Faust in Marseilles, La Fanciulla del
West in Montpellier, Romeo et Juliette at the Opera National du
Rhin-Strasbourg, Samson et Dalila in Marseilles, and Orfeo in the
Underworld at the Teatro Regio di Torino. In addition, he has lead
productions Thomas's Hamlet in Torino, La Belle Helene,
Aida, and Nabucco with Scottish Opera in Edinburgh,
Werther and Madama Butterfly with New Israeli Opera in Tel
Aviv, Chausson's Le Roi Arthus and Samson et Dalila in
Montpellier and Sydney, Carmen at the Jerusalem Festival, and
Semele and Les Pecheurs de Perles with Melbourne's Victoria
State Opera. At the L'Opera de Paris-Bastille, he made his debut with
Offenbach's Les Brigands, as well as his debut at the Wexford Festival
in Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche, and in Dublin for Delibes's
Lakme.
In the 2005-2006, Maestro made his company debut at
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in Germany for a new production of
Carmen, his Opera Leipzig debut in Les Contes d’Hoffmann,
returned to the English National Opera for La Belle Helene with Dame
Felicity Lott, in Laurent Pelly’s production.
The 2006-2007 season
included two major company debuts: a new production of Faust in his NBR
New-Zealand Opera debut, in Wellington and Auckland, and then made his
Pittsburgh Opera debut conducting Romeo et Juliette with Marcello
Giordani. He then returned to the Opera de Lausanne to conduct Paisiello’s
Il Barbiere di Siviglia in the production of the Theatre de la
Monnaie-Bruxelles, as well as a symphonic concert with the Auckland Philarmonia
Orchestra.
In the 2007-2008 season, he conducted Les Contes
d’Hoffmann and Les Pecheurs des Perles with the Australian Opera
in Melbourne, a new production of Romeo et Juliette at the Opera de
Toulon-Provence Mediterranee, a new production of Faust at the Opera
National de Bordeaux, La Boheme with the NBR New Zealand Opera, and a
symphonic concert with the Auckland Philamornia Orchestra.
In the fall
2008, he returned to Opera Australia in Sydney for Les Pecheurs des
Perles, marking his eighth engagement with the company, as well as
conducting a new production of La Traviata at the Scottish Opera
directed by David Mc Vicar. For the Christmas Holidays ‘08, Maestro conducted a
new production of La Perichole at the Theatre du Capitole de Toulouse,
and in the spring 2009, he conducted Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Opera de
Nice, La Traviata at Scottish Opera, and Carmen at the New
Israeli Opera of Tel Aviv.
In the 2009-2010 season, engagements include
Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Opera Colorado, Les Brigands at the
Opera National de Bordeaux, La Perichole at Opera de Lausanne, and
La Boheme and Salome at the Minnesota Opera.
In
concert, Maestro Joel-Hornak has led the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne at the
Montreux Festival, Orchestre de Bretagne, Orchestre National du Capitole de
Toulouse, the Orchestre Symphonique de la Monnaie in Brussels, Orchestre Colonne
and Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France in Paris, the Philharmonic Orchestra
of Lithuania at the Vilnius Festival, the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio di
Torino, Het Gelders Orkest in Arnhem, the Philarmonisches Orchester Dortmund and
l'Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Auckland Philamornia Orchestra
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