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Jose Maria Condemi, Stage Director

Earning rave reviews for his stage direction of the company premiere of Puccini's La Rondine last season,  Jose Maria Condemi returns to Opera San José to direct The Barber of Seville.  Mr. Condemi's previous directorial credits with the company include The Magic Flute (2008), Don Pasquale (2003) and L'elisir d'amore (2000). Other recent directing engagements for Mr. Condemi include his directorial debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago directing Deborah Voigt in their 08/09 season production of Tristan und Isolde, Il barbiere di Siviglia (Lake George Opera), Falstaff (Associate Director for Houston Grand Opera), Così fan tutte (San Francisco Opera), Il trovatore (Austin Lyric Opera), Don Giovanni (Portland Opera), Un Ballo in Maschera (Revival Director, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova) and La bohème (a new production for Seattle Opera). Upcoming 2009 - 2010 engagements include a new production of Ernani for Lyric Opera of Chicago and Il trovatore for Seattle Opera.

Mr. Condemi is a former Adler Fellow of the San Francisco Opera. He has directed to critical acclaim, Puccini's Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi and La bohème for the San Francisco Opera Center. Other notable opera productions include a new production of Maria Padilla for the Minnesota Opera, Don Giovanni for the Cincinnati Opera, Così fan tutte for the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program, La Cenerentola with Bay Shore Lyric Opera, Susannah and Roméo et Juliette with Festival Opera, and Un Ballo in Maschera for the Canadian Opera Company. For the Western Opera Theater he directed national tours of Die Fledermaus and Don Giovanni and Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias, a production which earned him the first prize in the 2000 USA National Opera Association competition.

Condemi is actively involved in the development of new works such as the world premiere of Hector Armienta’s River of Women that he directed at Theater Artaud in San Francisco.  He recently directed the world premiere workshop performance of the San Francisco Opera-commissioned piece Earthrise by 2000 Pulitzer Prize Lewis Spratlan. His theater credits include Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Dürrenmatt's The Physicists and Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.  

A Fulbright Scholar from 1998 until 2000, Mr. Condemi is a recipient of the Argentina National Fund for the Arts Awards. He received his undergraduate degree in Opera Stage Direction at the Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires) and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Directing at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music.

 

 

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