Emmanuel Joel-Hornak

Conductor

Renowned French conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak 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’Opéra de Paris-Bastille, the Wexford Festival, as well as the conducting the leading opera companies of Lyon, Nantes, Montpellier, Toulouse, Sydneyand Strasbourg. He made his United States opera debut in San Francisco Opera’s production of Carmen and was immediately re-engaged to conduct their productions of Don Carlo, La Bohème, and Samson et Dalila with Olga Borodina and Sergey Larin in the following seasons.

Maestro Joel-Hornak’s American career has included productions of Manon with Elisabeth Futral and Roméo et Juliette with Ramon Vargas and Ana Maria Martinez at the Houston Grand Opera, Werther with Ramon Vargas and Don Pasquale with Ann Swenson at Los Angeles Opera, Vanessa at the Washington National Opera with Kiri Te Kanawa, Roméo et Juliette at the Pittsburgh Opera with Marcello Giordani, La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein with Opera Company of Philadelphia, Faust with Cincinnati Opera, La Bohème and Salome at the Minnesota Opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Opera Colorado, Roméo et Juliette with Marcello Giordani for Pittsburgh Opera, and La Traviata at the New York City Opera. Up next in the US, he conducts Les Pecheurs des Perles with Opera Carolina.

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…impeccable pacing…beautifully blended…

Hansel und Gretel - “Scottish Opera…can still boast high musical standards – which it certainly does under guest conductor Emmanuel Joël-Hornak, whose impeccable pacing, with beautifully blended orchestral voices and a sensitive ear for their stage counterparts, stands in the finest Kapellmeister tradition.” – Financial Times

…sensitive direction…

Manon - “Add dramatic singing of the chorus and the vigorous and delicate orchestral playing under Emmanuel Joel’s sensitive direction, and you have one of the best Opera Australia productions I’ve seen in a long time.” – The Australian

…an intelligent reading of the music…

Faust - “The Vector Wellington orchestra led by conductor Emmanuel Joel-Hornak gave an intelligent reading of the music, sensitive to the strengths of the singers and tuning up the volume on the big chorus pieces.”– The National Business Review

…inspired, inspiriting conducting…

Thais -“Much of its success here was due to the inspired, inspiriting conducting of Emmanuel Joel, who sought out the score’s glamour, sensuality and – dare one say – spirituality. The ENO orchestra played, for one, as if they were enjoying themselves, and they sounded marvelous.”– Opera News

…lush…

Hansel und Gretel - “…the resonances of Humperdinck’s music are lush as they rise evocatively from under the baton of Emmanuel Joel-Hornak.” –The Stage

…almost in the league of the legendary Dimitri Mitropoulos…

Vanessa -“As with Barber’s orchestral music, Vanessa is filled with orchestral details that underline and emphasize the drama more than just being a nice tune. As such, however, it requires a strong conductor to keep the score moving and balance the orchestral components. Emmanuel Joel is such a conductor and leads a performance almost in the league of the legendary Dimitri Mitropoulos, the conductor of the world premiere at the Met in 1958.”– Sunday Opera, WFOS-FM

Composer	Opera
Barber	Vanessa
Bellini	Norma
	La Sonnambula
Berlioz	Beatrice et Benedict
	La Damnation de Faust
Bizet	Carmen
	Pearl Fishers
Chabrier	L’Etoile
	Le Roi malgre lui
Debussy	Pelleas et Melisande
Delibes	Lakme
Donizetti	Don Pasquale
	Lucia di Lammermoor
	L’Elisir d’Amore
Dukas	Ariane et Barbe Bleu
Faure	Penelope
Gounod	Faust
	Romeo et Juliette
Handel	Semele
Honegger	Jeanne au Bucher
Janacek	The House of the Death
Lalo	Le Roi D’Ys
Leoncavallo	I Pagliacci
	La Boheme
Mascagni	Cavalleria Rusticana
Massenet	Werther
	Don Quichotte
	Manon
	Thais
	Cherubin
Mozart	Die Entfhurung aus dem Serail
Paisiello	Barber of Seville
Puccini	La Boheme
	Tosca
	Madama Butterfly
	La Fanciulla del West
	Il Trittico
	Turandot
Offenbach	Tales of Hoffmann
	La Belle Helene
	Orfeo in the Underworld
	La Perichole
	La Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein
Poulenc	Dialogues des Carmelites
	Les Mamelles de Triesias
	La voix humaine
Prokofiev	The Fiery Angel
Ravel	L’enfant et les sortileges
	L’heure espagnole
Saint-Saens	Samson et Dalila
Shostakovitch	Lady Macbeth of Mzensk
Stravinsky	Oedipus Rex
Tchaikovsky	Eugene Onegin
Thomas	Hamlet
	Mignon
Verdi	Ernani
	Nabucco
	Rigoletto
	Trovatore
	La Traviata
	Simone Boccanegra
	Don Carlo
	Aida
	Falstaff
Wagner	Siegfried Ydill
	Fliegende Hollaender
	Lohengrin
Zandonai	Francesca da Rimini

In recent seasons his International credits have included Les Pêcheurs des Perles with Opera Australia in Sydney for marking his eighth engagement with the company, a new production of La Traviata at the Scottish Opera directed by David Mc Vicar, a new production of La Périchole at the Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, a new production of Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra de Toulon-Provence Méditerranée, and a new production of Faust at the Opéra National de Bordeaux and a new production of Faust in his NBR New-Zealand Opera debut. In addition, Les Contes d’Hoffmann at Opéra de Nice and the Australian Opera, Carmen at the New Israeli Opera of Tel Aviv, Les Brigands at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, La Périchole at Opéra de Lausanne, Carmen at the Bolshoï Theater in Moscow, Il Trovatore at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, Les Pêcheurs des Perles and Lakme with the Australian Opera, La Bohème with the NBR New Zealand Opera, Hansel und Gretel with Scottish National Opera, and a symphonic concert with the Auckland Philamornia Orchestra.

He then returned to the Opéra de Lausanne to conduct Paisiello’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia in the production of the Théâtre de la Monnaie-Bruxelles, as well as a symphonic concert with the Auckland Philarmonia Orchestra, his company debut at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in Germany for a new production of Carmen, his Opera Leipzig debut in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, and returned to the English National Opera for La Belle Hélène with Dame Felicity Lott, in Laurent Pelly’s production.

Additional noted engagements have included Carmen at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, Thaïs at the Barbican of London with Elisabeth Futral, Massenet’s Don Quixote, Les Pêcheurs de Perles and La Bohème with the English National Opera, Werther at the Oslo Opera, Pelléas et Mélisande in Gothenburg, Manon and Il Trovatore at the Sydney Opera, his Tiroler Landestheater debut in Innsbruck with Don Carlo and Massenet’s Chérubin, Carmen at the Royal Opera of Stockholm, Pelléas et Mélisande in Toulouse, les Dialogues des Carmélites in Gothenburg and Oslo, Ernani with the Nederland ‘s Reise Opera, Il Trittico in Nantes, Berlioz’s Béatrice et Benedict in Lausanne, Faust in Marseilles, La Fanciulla del West in Montpellier, Roméo et Juliette at the Opéra National du Rhin-Strasbourg, Samson et Dalila and Barraud’s Marouf 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 Hélène, Aïda, 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 Pêcheurs de Perles with Melbourne’s Victoria State Opera. At the L’Opéra 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 Lakmé.

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.