Richard Jones (director)

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1991 "Into The Woods"

Richard Jones (born 7 June, 1952) is a British opera and theatre director.

Biography

Early life

Jones was born in London, and studied at the University of Hull and London. After working as a jazz musician, he spent 1982-83 on a bursary working with Scottish Opera and the Citizens Theatre.

Career

Jones's earliest productions were for the Batignano Festival, Opera Northern Ireland and Opera 80. He came to prominence in 1987 with the world première of Judith Weir's "A Night at the Chinese Opera" for Kent Opera and a production of "Mignon" at the Wexford Festival.

He has now directed at more than 25 Opera Houses worldwide, including English National Opera (ENO), Welsh National Opera (WNO), the Royal Opera House (ROH), Glyndebourne, La Monnaie (Brussels), Amsterdam, the Bavarian State Opera (Munich) and the Opéra National de Paris. He received the Opernwelt Production of the Year award for "Giulio Cesare" (1994) and Laurence Olivier Awards for "Hansel and Gretel" at WNO, "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" for the ROH and "The Trojans" for ENO. In 2000, Jones was awarded Designer of the Year with Antony McDonald for "Un ballo in maschera" in Germany. He was nominated for a South Bank Show award for his production of "The Queen of Spades" at WNO and for an Olivier Award for "Pelleas and Melisande" at ENO. He was awarded the Barclays/TMA Award 2001 for "The Queen of Spades" at WNO and again in 2006 for "Wozzeck" at WNO.

Stage productions

Opera

*"Billy Budd": Frankfurt Opera
*"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant": English National Opera
*"Carmen": Opera North
*"Così fan tutte": Scottish Opera
*"The Cunning Little Vixen": De Nederlandse Opera
*"L'enfant et les sortilèges": Paris Opera
*"Euryanthe": Glyndebourne
*"The Fiery Angel": La Monnaie
*"Der Fliegende Holländer": De Nederlandse Opera
*"Flight": Glyndebourne
*"Gianni Schicchi": Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
*"Hänsel und Gretel": Welsh National Opera, The Metropolitan Opera
*"L'heure espagnole": Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
*"Jenufa": De Nederlandse Opera
*Julietta":Paris Opera
*"Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk": Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
*"The Love for Three Oranges": Opera North, Opera Zuid, English National Opera, New York City Opera
*"Lulu": English National Opera
*"Macbeth": Glyndebourne
*"Manon": Opera North
*"The Midsummer Marriage": Bavarian State Opera
*"Mignon": Wexford Festival Opera
*"Pelléas et Mélisande": Opera North, English National Opera
*"The Queen of Spades": Welsh National Opera
*"The Rake's Progress": Opera 80
*"Das Rheingold": Scottish Opera
*"Der Ring des Nibelungen": Royal Opera House
*"Rusalka": Copenhagen
*"Les Troyens": English National Opera
*"Die Walküre": Scottish Opera
*" Wozzeck ": Komische Oper, Welsh National Opera
*"Der Zwerg": Paris Opera

Theatre

*"Hobson's Choice": Young Vic
*"Into the Woods": Phoenix Theatre
*"Tales from the Vienna Woods" (Horváth) : Royal National Theatre
*"Titanic": Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
*"Too Clever by Half" (Ostrovsky): Old Vic
*"The Good Soul of Szechuan": Young Vic
*"A Flea in Her Ear":Old Vic
*"Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme":National Theatre
*" Black Snow ":American Repertory Theatre
*" All’s Well That Ends Well ": Public Theatre": New York
*" Holy Mothers ":Royal Court Theatre
*" La Bête ": West End: Broadway
*" Six Characters Looking For an Author ": Hobson’s Choice ": Young Vic
*" A Midsummer Night’s Dream ": Royal Shakespeare Company : Teatre Liceo Salamanca

References

*cite book | last = Warrack| first = John, and Ewan West| year = 1992| title = The Oxford Dictionary of Opera| publisher = Oxford University Press| location = Oxford| id = ISBN 0-19-869164-5
*"Who's Who in British Opera" ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993) ISBN 0 859 67 894 6

External links

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* [http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=16754 Interview with Jones at the National Theatre]