John Matsumoto Giampietro

John Matsumoto Giampietro is a stage director, educator, and writer. At Juilliard, Mr. Matsumoto Giampietro teaches Fundamentals of Acting and Viewpoints for the Singer in the Vocal Arts Division and provides dramatic coachings across all degree levels.

His opera productions at Juilliard include: Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, The Turn of the Screw, Il Turco in Italia, L’elisir d’Amore, Curlew River, Le Nozze di Figaro and the devised opera There’s Blood Between Us.

John is the Interim Director of the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory where he has directed over 20 operas including, The Cunning Little Vixen, Hänsel und Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, Der Rosenkavalier, and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

John is a member of the opera faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music where he teaches Acting for the Singer.

A Director-Member of The Ensemble Studio Theatre in NYC, he is a frequent collaborator with Youngblood, the Obie-award-winning playwright’s group. At EST, John directed the NY Times acclaimed production of Year of the Rooster, by Olivia Dufault.

He has directed operas, plays, and musicals at Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Flea Theatre, The Lark, P 73, Urban Stages, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, Curtis Institute of Music, Shenandoah Conservatory, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Bard College Conservatory of Music, among others.

His writing includes new English dialogue versions of Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and The ImpresA.I.rio for Juilliard opera. His English dialogue version of Die Zauberflöte premiered at the Chautauqua Institution. John’s play Strength of God and other grotesques based on Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, premiered at Emory & Henry College.