Amon Miyamoto became the first Japanese director to direct a musical on Broadway for his staging of the revival, Pacific Overtures, which received four Tony nominations. He has directed numerous productions in Japan and worldwide, from musicals, straight plays, opera, and kabuki, as well as other art genres. In 2010, he directed The Fantasticks in the West End. His recent works in New York include a play version of The Temple of the Golden Pavilions, a stage adaptation of Yukio Mishima’s novel of the same time, at Lincoln Centre Festival in 2011. In 2013, he made a European opera debut with Mozart’s The Magic Flute at Landestheater Liz in Austria. For Opéra national du Rhin, he directed Toshiro Mayuzumi’s opera Le Pavilion d’or in 2018, and Parsifal in 2020. His new direction of the opera Madae Butterfly played at the Semperoper Opera House in Dresden, Germany in 2022, and San Francisco Opera in 2023.