Richard Jones

English director Richard Jones made his Royal Opera debut in 1994, directing Der Ring des Nibelungen. He has since returned to direct Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, L’Heure espagnole/Gianni Schicchi, The Gambler, Anna Nicole (world premiere), Il trittico, Gloriana, Boris Godunov and La bohème. In the 2018/19 Season he directs Katya Kabanova for The Royal Opera.

Jones has directed opera for English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne (Festival and on Tour), Opera North, Scottish Opera, and for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, La Scala, Milan, Bavarian State Opera, the opera companies of Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Berlin, Chicago and Tokyo and the Bregenz Festival. He has worked in theatre at the Old Vic, Young Vic, the National Theatre, Almeida, the Royal Court, in the West End, for the Royal Shakespeare Company and for the Public Theatre, New York. He has directed three times on Broadway.

Jones has won five Olivier Awards, two Evening Standard Awards, a South Bank Show Award, been named Opernwelt Director of the Year and is a Tony nominee. In 2017 his production of The Hairy Ape at the New York Armoury was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards. He was made a CBE in 2015.