Director Jose Maria Condemi is a former Adler Fellowship in Stage Direction of the San Francisco Opera. He has directed Puccini's Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi and La Bohème for the Merola Opera Program and Così fan tutte for the mainstage of the San Francisco Opera. Other notable directing engagements include Luisa Miller for the Canadian Opera Company, La Bohème for Seattle Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Student Matinee) for Lyric Opera Chicago, Don Giovanni for Cincinnati and Portland Operas, Maria Padilla for Minnesota Opera, Il Trovatore for Austin Lyric Opera, Così fan Tutte for the Seattle Opera Young Artist Program L’elisir d’amore and Don Pasquale with Opera San Jose, Barbiere di Siviglia for Lake George Opera Susannah and Roméo and Juliette with Festival Opera, the Western Opera Theater's national tours of Die Fledermaus and Don Giovanni and Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias for the University of Cincinnati, a production which earned him the first prize in the 2000 USA National Opera Association competition. As Associate Director, he has worked on Così Fan Tutte for Lyric Opera Chicago, Un Ballo in Maschera for the Canadian Opera Company and Falstaff for Houston Grand Opera. His collaborations with contemporary opera composers include directing the premieres of Hector Armienta’s River of Women and The Weeping Woman in San Francisco. He also directed the workshop performance of the San Francisco Opera commissioned piece “Earthrise” by 2000 Pulitzer Prize Lewis Spratlan.

His theater directing credits include Caryl Churchill's Mad Forest, Dürrenmatt's The Physicists , Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden and Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.

A Fulbright Scholar from 1998 until 2000, he is also a recipient of the Argentina National Endowment for the Arts Awards. Condemi 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.

Upcoming directorial engagements include Tristan und Isolde and a new production of Ernani at Lyric Opera Chicago, Elisir d’amore for Families at the San Francisco Opera, Il Trovatore at Seattle Opera, a new Die Zauberflöte for Opera San Jose, Faust for Opera Grand Rapids and the world premiere of River of blood for Florentine Opera.