Emmanuel Plasson has established himself as a leading ambassador of French music throughout his remarkable international career, spanning both the symphonic and operatic worlds.
Having held Artistic and Musical Director positions for Hawaii Opera Theater and Opera Company of Middlebury, he made his North American debut conducting the Royal Ballet Covent Garden on tour, including performances at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York which resulted in an invitation as Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for the productions of Manon andCarmen.
As a result of his success, the invitations and engagements have been worldwide.
In North America, he conducted in Dallas, Minnesota, Orlando, Tulsa Opera – Pearlfishers and Faust; Boston Lyric Opera – Lucie de Lammermoor (French version); New York City Opera – La Périchole, L’Étoile and Les Pêcheurs de Perles; Opera Birmingham – Carmen and Samson et Dalilah; Kentucky Opera – Roméo et Julietteand Cendrillon; Minnesota Opera – Faust and Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Cincinnatti Opera – Les Contes d’Hoffmann; Lyric Opera of Kansas City – Carmen; Opéra de Montréal – Lakmé and Faust.
In Australasia, Maestro Plasson conducted several productions with Opera Australia – Manon, Werther, Faust, Orphée aux Enfers and La Traviata; as well as Carmen in New Zealand Opera, and Werther at the New National Theatre in Tokyo. His orchestral engagements included Adelaide, Melbourne, West Australian and Australia’s Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet of Japan – Prokofiev’s Cinderella; and the Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra.
In Europe, he conducted a production of Werther with the Royal Swedish Opera and a second one with the Royal Danish Opera; the Norwegian premiere of Chabrier’s L’Étoile with the Bergen Philharmonic and Den Nye Opera in a Mark Lamos production; at the Hamburg Staatsoper – Les Contes d’Hoffmann and La fille du Régiment; many productions at the Grand Théâtre d’Avignon; at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse – Cendrillon and Faust; at the Toulon Opera – Les Contes Hoffmann; at the Catania Opera, Sicily – Lucia di Lammermoor; and Puccini's Tosca in a tour of Southern France with the New York Opera Society.
His notable European orchestral engagements include Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre Régional de Cannes, Orchestre National de Bordeaux, Orquesta Sinfonica Portuguesa. He appeared with the Aalborg, Aarhus and Prague Symphony, the Nordwestdeutschen Philharmonie, the Brabants Orkest, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and has returned to the Royal Ballet atCovent Garden for several performances of a triple bill that included Stravinsky's Firebird and Bizet's Symphony inC for which he received great critical acclaim.
2022 marked a new milestone in his career when he performed at the Landesgartenschau Beelitz, Germany, with his own chamber orchestra: Orchester Voyager.
Emmanuel Plasson won the Donatella Flick International Conducting Competition in 1994 conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra in London which launched his UK debut.
He subsequently worked with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, and Opera North in a double bill of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges and Stravinsky’s Petrushka.
His discography includes recordings on the EMI and Dynamic labels.
REPERTOIRE
Symphonic
ADAMS
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
BACH
Suite No. 3
BARTÓK
Concerti for Piano Nos. 1 - 3
Concerti for Violin Nos. 1 & 2
Dance Suite "The Miraculous Mandarin" Suite
BERLIOZ
La damnation de Faust
Les nuits d’été
Roméo et Juliette
Symphonie fantastique
BERNSTEIN
Serenade for violin
BIZET
Symphony in C
L. BOULANGER
Psalm 130
BUSONI
"Turandot" Suite
CANTELOUBE
Chants d'Auvergne
CHABRIER
Bourrée fantasque
España
Gwendolyne Overture
Fête Polonaise
CHAUSSON
Poème Symphonie in B-flat
COPLAND
Appalachian Spring
El salón México
Rodeo
DEBUSSY
Jeux
La mer
Nocturnes
Petite Suite
DUKAS
L’apprenti sorcier
Polyeucte
DUTILLEUX
Métaboles
Symphony No. 1
DVORAK
Symphony No. 9
ELGAR
Symphony No. 2
FRANCK
Le chasseur maudit
Symphony in d
GERSHWIN
An American in Paris
Rhapsody in Blue
GOUNOD
Symphony No. 1
HAYDN
Symphony No. 45 ("Farewell")
HINDEMITH
"Mathis der Maler" Symphony
IBERT
Concertino da camera Concerto for Flute Divertissement
IVES
The Unanswered Question
JANÁCEK
Sinfonietta
MARTINU
Concertino Symphony No. 1
MASSENET
Scènes alsaciennes
MÉHUL
Symphony No. 1
MENDELSSOHN
"The Hebrides" Overture ("Fingal's Cave")
Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")
Symphony No. 4 ("Italian")
MESSIAEN
L’Ascension
Les offrandes oubliées
Oiseux exotiques
MILHAUD
Le boeuf sur le toit
MOZART
Symphony No. 21
Symphony No. 36 ("Linz")
Symphony No. 38 ("Prague")
Symphony No. 40
MUSSORGSKY
Pictures at an Exhibition
NIELSEN
Symphony No. 1
OFFENBACH
Gaîté parisienne
PÄRT
Fratres
POULENC
Les biches
Concerto for Organ
Concerto for Piano Concerto for Two Pianos
Gloria
Stabat Mater
PROKOFIEV
"Lieutenant Kijé" Suite
"The Love of Three Oranges" Suite
Symphony No. 1 ("Classical")
Symphony No. 5
RACHMANINOV
Symphonic Dances
RAVEL
Alborada del grazioso
Concerto in D for Piano ("Left Hand")
Concerto in G for Piano
"Daphnis et Chloé" Suites Nos. 1 & 2
Ma mère l’oye P
avane pour une infante défunte
Le tombeau de Couperin
La valse
RESPIGHI
Feste romane
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Capriccio espagnol
"Le coq d’or" Suite
Sheherazade
ROUSSEL
"Bacchus et Ariane" Suite No. 2
Le festin l’araignée
Sinfonietta in d for Strings
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4
SAINT-SAËNS
Symphony No. 3 („Organ")
Marche Héroïque
Suite Algerienne
Carnaval des animaux
SCHUMANN
Symphony No. 1 ("Spring")
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish")
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 5
Symphony No. 10
SIBELIUS
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 5
Tapiola
STRAVINSKY
Apollon musagète
Concerto in D for String Orchestra
Concerto in E-flat for Chamber Orchestra ("Dumbarton Oaks")
Concerto for Violin
Le sacre du printemps
L’histoire du soldat
L’oiseau de feu (“The Firebird”) – 1919
Suite Pétrouchka
Suite No. 1 for Small Orchestra
Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra Symphony in 3 Movements
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonies 1,2, 4, 5, 6
Capriccio italien
Francesca da Rimini
VARÈSE
Amériques
Opera
BERLIOZ
La damnation de Faust
BIZET
Carmen
Les Pêcheurs de perles
BRITTEN
Albert Herring
CHABRIER
L’Étoile
DELIBES
Lakmé
DONIZETTI
La fille du régiment
L’Elisir d’Amore
Parisina d’Este
Viva la mamma
GOUNOD
Faust
Roméo et Juliette
LEHAR
The Merry Widow
MASSENET
Cendrillon
Manon
Werther
Thaïs
MOZART
Don Giovanni
Der Schauspieldirektor
Die Zauberflöte
Le Nozze di Figaro
OFFENBACH
Les contes d’Hoffmann
La belle Hélène
Orphée aux enfers
La Périchole
POULENC
Dialogues des Carmélites
PUCCINI
Turandot
Madama Butterfly
La Rondine
Tosca
RAVEL
L’enfant et les sortilèges
ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia
La Cenerentola
L'italiana in algeri
SAINT-SAËNS
Samson et Dalila
STRAUSS
Salome
TCHAIKOVSKY
Eugen Onegin
VERDI
Falstaff
La Traviata
Macbeth
Il Trovatore
Musicals
STEPHEN FLAHERTY, TERRENCE McNALLY and LYNN AHRENS
Ragtime
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