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Amon Miyamoto (宮本亞門; born January 4, 1958, in Tokyo) is a theater director. He has directed numerous productions in Japan and worldwide, including musicals, straight plays, opera, kabuki, and other art genres. In 2004, he became the first Japanese director to direct a musical on Broadway when he directed the revival of Pacific Overtures. That production received four Tony Award nominations.[1]
Miyamoto made his directing debut with his original musical I Got Merman, winning the National Performing Arts Festival Award. He is a recipient of the Matsuyo Akimoto Award of the Asahi Performing Arts Awards. He served as the inaugural artistic director of Kanagawa Arts Theater (KAAT) from 2010 to 2014.
Amon made his North American opera-directing debut in 2007 with the US premiere of Tan Dun's Tea: A Mirror of Soul at the Santa Fe Opera. His recent works in New York include The Temple of the Golden PavilionatLincoln Center Festival. His European opera credits include: The Magic Flute (Landestheater LinzinAustria), Le Pavillon d’Or (Opéra national du RhininFrance), Parsifal, and Madame Butterfly (SemperoperinGermany) which is also planned for the San Francisco Opera in 2023 and the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen in 2024. He directed the pre-Broadway world premiere of The Karate Kid: The Musical on May 25, 2022, in St. Louis.
Miyamoto was born to parents who ran a café named “Sugawa” (now “Sabou Erika”) across from the Shinbashi Enbujō, one of the most prominent kabuki theaters in Tokyo. As a child, he paid frequent visits to the Shimbashi Enbujō as well as movie theaters, Kabuki-za, and other theaters under the influence of his mother who was a former dancer of the Shochiku Revue Company. In kindergarten, he began to study (Nihon Buyō) at Fujima School of Japanese Dance where Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII was one of his peers. Around that time, he became absorbed in Hollywood films and began to learn about musicals. When he was in elementary school, he began practicing Tea ceremony. He was brought up right in the middle of Hanamachi, a Japanese courtesan and geisha district.
While in high school, he was cast as the leading role in the school's theater club production of Godspell in which he made his acting debut. This musical received positive reviews and was featured in the Kinema Shunpo magazine. He proceeded to attend Tamagawa University, where he majored in Theater in the College of Arts. In the middle of his senior year, he was cast as a dancer in the musical Pippin.
He debuted as a dancer in 1980. He performed in musicals such as Hair, Annie Get Your Gun, and Chicago, and devoted his time to dance and choreography. He visited New York repeatedly, and studied in London for two years beginning in 1985.
He made his directing debut with his original musical I Got Merman in 1987. The following year, he received the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Performing Arts Festival Award.
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Opera: Mozart's “Le Nozze di Figaro” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Sascha Goetzel, Set Design by Neil Patel, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai |
Opera: Mozart's “DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE” (The Magic Flute) |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, Set Design by Boris Kudlichka, Costume Design by Masatomo Ota, Visual design by LUNAPARK |
Opera: Tan Dun's “TEA: A MIRROR OF SOUL” |
Original Direction by Amon Miyamoto, Directed by PAUL PEERS, Music by Tan Dun, Book by Tan Dun and Xu Ying, Conducted by JONATHAN DARLINGTON, Set Design by Rumi Matsui, Costume Design by Masatomo Ota, Lighting Design by Drew Billiau, |
Neo Opera: “Madame Butterfly X” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Music by Giacomo Puccini |
Opera: Mozart's “Le Nozze di Figaro” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, Set Design by Neil Patel, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai |
Opera: Mozart's “Le Nozze di Figaro” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Manfred Honeck, Set Design by Neil Patel, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai, Orchestra: Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra |
Opera: Mozart's “Le Nozze di Figaro” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Manfred Honeck, Set Design by Neil Patel, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai, Orchestra: Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra |
Opera: Tan Dun's “TEA: A MIRROR OF SOUL” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Music by Tan Dun, Book by Tan Dun and Xu Ying, Conducted by Tan Dun, Set Design by Rumi Matsui, Costume Design by Masatomo Ota, Lighting Design by Drew Billiau, Produced by Opera Company of Philadelphia |
Opera: Tan Dun's “TEA: A MIRROR OF SOUL” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Lawrence Renes, Set Design by Rumi Matsui, Costume Design by Masatomo Ota, Lighting Design by Rick Fisher |
Opera: Verdi's “La Traviata” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Antonello Allemandi, Set Design by Rumi Matsui, Costume Design by Shinjiro Asatsuki, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai, Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic |
Opera: Mozart's “Così fan tutte” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Pascal Verrot, Set Design by Neil Patel, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai, Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic |
Opera: Mozart's “Don Giovanni” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Conducted by Pascal Verrot, Set Design by Neil Patel, Lighting Design by David Lander, Produced by Tokyo Nikikai, Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic |
Operetta: Original “Pinocchio” |
Directed and Adapted by Amon Miyamoto |
Operetta: Lehar's “The Merry Widow” |
Directed, Choreographed, Lyrics Translated and libretto written by Amon Miyamoto |
Opera: Donizetti's “L’elisir d’amore” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
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"The Terrace of the Leper King" |
Written by Yukio Mishima, Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
”iSAMU” a play based on the life of Isamu Noguchi |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“Hoichi the Earless” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) |
”iSAMU” a play based on the life of Isamu Noguchi |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“Salome” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Oscar Wilde, Costume by Yoji Yamamoto |
KINKAKUJI “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Based on the novel by Yukio Mishima, Adapted for the stage by Serge Lamothe, Book by Chihiro Ito and Amon Miyamoto, Music by Yutaka Fukuoka, Choreographed by Shuji Onodera, Set Design by Boris Kudlichka |
“MARY STUART” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Dacia Maraini, Set Design by Rachel Hauck, Costume Design by Toshikazu Iwaya (DRESS CAMP) |
“UNIDENTIFIED HUMAN REMAINS AND THE TRUE NATURE OF LOVE” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Brad Fraser, Set Design by Tsukasa Nakagoshi, Lighting Design by Sonoyo Nishikawa |
“CAMILLE” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Pam Gems |
“THE VORTEX” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Noël Coward |
“MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” |
Directed and Set Design by Amon Miyamoto, Book by William Shakespeare |
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"IKIRU" |
Directed and Co-Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music by Jason Howland, Book and Lyrics by Chikae Takahashi |
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum <Edo version>" |
Directed, Script Adapted and Lyrics Translated by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart |
“Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“TANUKI GOTEN” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“SWEENEY TODD” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler |
“THE WIZ -The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Original Work by Lyman Frank Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", Book by William F. Brown, Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls, Music Arrangement by Nao'ymt, Music Direction by Tosh Masuda, Choreography by Rino Nakasone, Art Direction by Sebastian Masuda, Costume Design by Toshikazu Iwaya, Visual Design by Daito Manabe, Produced by PARCO |
“The Two Gentlemen of Verona” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Adapted by John Guare & Mel Shapiro, Lyrics by John Guare, Music by Galt MacDermot, Based on the play by William Shakespeare, Presented on Broadway by the New York Shakespeare Festival, Produced by Joseph Papp, Original Broadway Production directed by Mel Shapiro, Orchestrations by Galt MacDermot and Harold Wheeler |
“Let's Sing a Song of LOVE” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by George Furth, Lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim |
“Pinocchio” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Original Work by Carlo Collodi |
“THE WIZ -The Wonderful Wizard of Oz-” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Original Work by Lyman Frank Baum "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", Book by William F. Brown, Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls, Music Direction and Arrangement by Nao'ymt, Choreographed by Rino Nakasone, Art Direction by Sebastian Masuda, Costume Design by Toshikazu Iwaya, Visual Design by Daito Manabe, Lighting Design by Riki Kihara, Produced by PARCO |
“PACIFIC OVERTURES” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman, Additional material by Hugh Wheeler, Set and Mask Design by Rumi Matsui, Costume Design by Emi Wada |
“SWEENEY TODD” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by Hugh Wheeler |
“THE FANTASTICKS” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music by Tom Jones, Book and Lyrics by Harvey Schmidt, Set Design by Rumi Matsui, Lighting Design by Rick Fisher, Costume Design by Nicky Shaw, Orchestrations / Musical Supervision: Jason Carr, musical director: Tom Deering, Sound Design by Mike Walker, Casting by Irene Cotton, General Management : Cole Kitchenn Ltd |
“GREY GARDENS” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel, Lyrics by Michael Korie, Scenic Design by Tsuyoshi Kata, Costume Design by Ayako Maeda |
“SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine, Scenic Design by Shusaku Futamura, Costume Design by Hanako Kurosu |
“THE THREEPENNY OPERA” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Bertolt Brecht, Music by Kurt Weill, Costume design by Toshikazu Iwaya (Dress33), Scenic Design by Rumi Matsui, music director by Kazuhisa Uchihashi |
“THE DROWSY CHAPERONE” |
Directed, Choreographed and Translated by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar, Music and Lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison |
“TURANDOT” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Based on Puccini’s ”Turandot”, Music by Joe Hisaishi, Lyric by Yukinojo Mori, Costume Design by Wada Emi, Scenic Design by Rumi Matsui |
“UP IN THE AIR” |
Conceived and Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book and Lyrics by Bill Russell, Music by Henry Krieger, Scenic Design by Neil Patel, Costume Design by Angela Wendt, Lighting Design by Donald Holder |
“TAKE FLIGHT” |
Directed, Choreographed and Translated by Amon Miyamoto, Book by John Weidman, Music by David Shire, Lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr., musical director and Conductor: David Charles Abell, Set Design by Neil Patel, Costume Design Paul Tazewell |
“THE FANTASTICKS” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Book and Lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt |
“PACIFIC OVERTURES” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by John Weidman, Additional material by Hugh Wheeler, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, Music Direction by Paul Gemignani, Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Set and Mask Design by Rumi Matsui, Costume Design by Junko Koshino, Lighting Design by Brian Mac Devitt, Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier, Produced by Roundaount Theatre Company in association with Gorgeous Entertainment |
“INTO THE WOODS” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Book and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine, |
“CANDIDE” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Original Work by Voltaire, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Lyrics by Richard Wilbur and Stephen Sondheim, musical director and Conductor: David Charles Abell, Set Design by Neil Patel |
“CANDIDE” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Original Work by Voltaire, Music by Leonard Bernstein, Book by Hugh Wheeler, Lyrics by Richard Wilbur and Stephen Sondheim, musical director and Conductor by Yutaka Sado, Set Design by Neil Patel |
“URINE TOWN” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann, Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis |
“THE NUTCRACKER, The Musical” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Shintaro Tsuji, Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa |
“BOYS TIME” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“GIRLS TIME” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto |
“TANUKI GOTEN” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“MAUI” |
Conceived, Directed and Set Design by Amon Miyamoto |
“GESSHOKU” |
Conceived and Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Osamu Hashimoto, Set Design by Tadanori Yokoo, Music by Hoppy Kamiyama |
“HONGKONG RHAPSODY” |
Conceived, Choreographed and Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Music by Dick Lee |
“THE SOUND OF MUSIC” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Music by Richard Rodgers, Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II |
“ON THE 20TH CENTURY” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Music by CY Coleman |
“ANYTHING GOES” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter, Book by Timony Crouse and John Weidman |
“ANNIE GET YOUR GUN” |
Directed and Choreographed by Amon Miyamoto, Lyrics and Music by Irving Berlin, Book by Herbert Fields and Dorothy Fields |
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“Nihon Mukashibanashi” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“Ryugu Monogatari” “Momotaro Onigashima Gaiden” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“Hanasaka Jiisan” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
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“YUGEN” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“YUGEN: The Hidden Beauty of Japan” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
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“SUPERLOSERZ SAVE THE EARTH“ |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
DRUM TAO “DRUM HEART” (Hyakkaryoran Nippon Drum Emaki) |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Costume Design by Junko Koshino, Set Design by Rumi Matsui |
“TEE! TEE! TEE!” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Choreographed by Rino Nakasone |
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Hibiya Festival Opening Show |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
World Forum on Sport and Culture - Cultural Program “The Land of the Rising Sun” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Starring Ichikawa Ebizō XI, Ryohei Suzuki, Maki Mori, Blue Tokyo, Wrecking Crew Orchestra/EL Squad and others |
Commemorative Ceremony of the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the Port of Yokohama “VISION ! YOKOHAMA” |
Book and Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
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“Fanatic Artist Hokusai (Gakyojin Hokusai)” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
“Hoichi the Earless” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Yakumo Koizumi |
“ISAMU NOGUCHI” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
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“HELLO KITTY DREAM REVUE [ONE]” |
Script, Lyrics, Translation, Music Arrangement, Set Design, and Direction by Amon Miyamoto |
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“THE 7 DEADLY SINS e.t.c” |
Directed by Amon Miyamoto, Book by Bertolt Bercht, Music by Kurt Weill |
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“BEAT” |
Written and Directed by Amon Miyamoto |
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“METAMORPHOSIS” |
Book by Kafka, Directed by Steven Berkoff, Performed by Amon Miyamoto and others |
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