Richard Jones

Richard Jones was born in London. Opera productions include The Gambler, L’heure Espagnole, Gianni Schicchi, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (ROH); Lohengrin, Julius Caesar, The Midsummer Marriage (Munich); Skin Deep (Opera North); Falstaff, Macbeth, Jonathan Dove’s Flight, Euryanthe (Glyndebourne); Rusalka (Copenhagen); Billy Budd (Frankfurt); The Fiery Angel (Brussels); The Queen of Spades, Hansel and Gretel (WNO); Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Love for Three Oranges, Die Fledermaus, From Morning to Midnight, Lulu, The Trojans (ENO); Pelleas and Melisande (Opera North, ENO); Cunning Little Vixen, Der fliegende Holländer, Jenůfa (Amsterdam); L’enfant et les sortilèges, Der Zwerg, Juliette (Paris Opera); Un ballo in maschera, La bohème (Bregenz Festival); Wozzeck (Berlin; WNO).
Theatre includes Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, Six Characters Looking For an Author, Hobson’s Choice (Young Vic); Rumpelstiltskin (Birmingham Contemporary Music); Too Clever by Half (Olivier Award), The Illusion (Evening Standard Award), A Flea in Her Ear (Old Vic); Into the Woods (Olivier and Evening Standard Awards) (West End); Black Snow (American Repertory Theatre); All’s Well That Ends Well (Public Theatre, New York); Holy Mothers (Ambassadors/Royal Court Theatre); La Bête (West End, Broadway); Titanic, Wrong Mountain (Broadway); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC); Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Tales from the Vienna Woods (National Theatre).
Awards include Olivier Awards for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (ROH) and The Trojans (ENO); Designer of the Year with Antony McDonald for Un ballo in maschera in Germany; Barclays/TMA Award for The Queen of Spades, Olivier Award for Hansel and Gretel, TMA and Royal Philharmonic Society Opera Awards for Wozzeck (WNO); Evening Standard Award for Der Ring Des Nibelungen (ROH).