Jose Maria Condemi returns to Opera San
José to direct Mozart's The Magic Flute. Mr. Condemi previous
directorial credits with the company include Don Pasquale
(2003) and L'elisir d'amore (2000). Recent directing
engagements for Mr. Condemi include
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).
Mr. Condemi will make his
directorial debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago directing Deborah
Voigt in their 08/09 season production of Tristan und Isolde and
has been asked to direct a new production of Ernani during their
09/10 season. He returns to Seattle Opera to direct Il trovatore
during the 09/10 season.
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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