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Emmanuel Plasson grew up in Toulouse, France. His father was a conductor, his mother was a violinist. They both inspired his career choices. Plasson studied violin at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and conducting at the Monteux School and Music Festival in Hancock, Maine, and at the Yale School of Music in New Haven, Conn.

Plasson made his professional debut as a conductor in Toulouse in 1991. Since then he has conducted across the British Isles, continental Europe, in Australia and New Zealand, Japan and the United States.

In February, Plasson, 54, was appointed principal conductor and artistic director of Hawaii Opera Theatre. He will be wielding his conductor’s baton when HOT’s production of Puccini’s ever-popular tragedy “Tosca” opens Friday in the Blaisdell Concert Hall.