John Matsumoto Giampietro is a Brooklyn based stage director of Opera and Theatre, an educator, and writer. Acclaimed for his innovative and propulsive productions, his work has been described as ‘astonishing’ (New York Times) and ‘something to celebrate at any opera company anywhere. I loved it so much, I went back the next day.’ (Parterre Box) 

John is the Interim Director of the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory, where he has directed several operas including , The Cunning Little Vixen, Hänsel und Gretel, Le nozze di Figaro, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is his 18th year with the voice program and dedicates this production, with gratitude, to Marlena Malas, whose legacy will endure in the artists that built and sustained this program. 

John is a Vocal Arts Acting Faculty member and stage director at The Juilliard School where he teaches acting across all degree programs.  

He is a faculty member of The Curtis Institute of Music where he teaches acting in the Vocal Studies and Opera Theater Department. 

His productions at Juilliard include, among others: The Turn of the Screw, ll Turco in Italia,  Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, La fedeltà premiata, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, and Curlew River.  

He is a frequent director with Youngblood, Ensemble Studio Theater’s Obie-award-winning young writers group. At EST, John directed the NY Times acclaimed production of Year of the Rooster by Olivia Dufault. 

John has directed opera and theatre at Tanglewood, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Urban Stages, Vermont Shakespeare Festival, Curtis Institute of Music, The Flea Theatre, Shenandoah Conservatory and NYU Tisch School of the Arts, among others.  

His writing includes new English dialogue versions of Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor and The ImpresA.I.rio for Juilliard.  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 Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater, NYC.