Director / Designer / Video Designer

Netia Jones

Rusalka

Biography

Netia Jones is a director, designer and film-maker in opera, theatre and classical music. With composer Brian Irvine, she created (and directed) Least Like The Other for Irish National Opera. She is Associate Director of Royal Ballet & Opera, London, and the director of Lightmap, a mixed media creative studio working worldwide. Recent projects include Dvořák’s Rusalka (Kungliga Operan); Pascal Dusapin's Antigone (Cité de la Musique); Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes (Göteborg); Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (Santa Fe Opera); Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Opéra national de Paris); Verdi’s Macbeth (New Zealand Opera); Stravinsky’s The Soldier's Tale (San Francisco Symphony); Philip Glass’s Orphée (English National Opera); Handel’s Amadigi, Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (Garsington Opera); Dowland’s An Anatomy of Melancholy (Barbican); Hans Zender and Franz Schubert The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise (Barbican Theatre London, Lincoln Centre NYC, Shanghai, Perth, Taiwan); Georg Friedrich Haas’s Atthis, and György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments (Royal Ballet & Opera); Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River (Barbican Theatre, Lincoln Centre, CalPerformances, Berkeley); Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Santa Fe, Aldeburgh Festival); Handel’s Messiah (Bergen); Unsuk Chin’s Alice in Wonderland (LA Phil, Barbican Theatre); Feldman’s Words and Music (Happy Days International Beckett Festival); Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are (LA Phil, Barbican Theatre, Aldeburgh Festival); and Schönberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Paris, Bergen). Together with Lightmap, Netia has created site-specific multimedia performances with large scale external projection mapping, including Everlasting Light at Sizewell nuclear power station, and The Way to the Sea, a performance installation across a whole coastal village (Aldeburgh Festival).  

March 2026