Fulton, Thomas (1949- )

US conductor. After study with Eugene Ormandy at the Curtis Institute, he worked in Hamburg and San Francisco. He made his debut at the Paris Opéra in 1979, with Robert le Diable, and at the New York Metropolitan Opera House in 1981 with Manon Lescaut, followed by Puccini's Madama Butterfly, operas by Verdi, and Britten's Billy Budd. He conducted Macbeth at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1986, and the French-language Don Carlos at Seattle in 1993.