Netia Jones Director

Biography

A director, set designer and filmmaker in the fields of opera, theatre and classical music, Netia Jones is the director of Lightmap, a multimedia design studio working worldwide. Recent projects include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Garsington Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Aldeburgh Festival), Pelléas et Mélisande (Santa Fe Opera), Least Like the Other (Irish National Opera, Royal Ballet Opera), Macbeth (Opera New Zealand), L'Histoire du soldat (San Francisco Symphony), Orphée (English National Opera), Amadigi, The Magic Flute (Garsington Opera), Anatomy of Melancholy (London Barbican Theatre), The Dark Mirror: Zender's Winter Journey (London Barbican Theatre, New York Lincoln Center, Shanghai, Perth, Taiwan), Atthis, Kafka Fragments (Royal Ballet Opera), La Rivière aux courlis (London Barbican Theatre, New York Lincoln Center, CalPerformances, Berkeley), Le Messie (Bergen), Alice in Wonderland (Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Barbican Theatre), Words and Music (Happy Days International Beckett Festival), Where the Wild Things Are (Los Angeles Philharmonic, Barbican Theatre, Aldeburgh Festival), La Nuit transfigurée (Paris, Bergen).

With Lightmap, Netia Jones has created site-specific multimedia shows with large-scale outdoor projections, including Everlasting Light at Sizewell Nuclear Power Station and The Way to the Sea, a performance installation spanning an entire coastal village (Aldeburgh Festival). She has also directed concert films featuring works by Schönberg, Purcell, Stravinsky and Handel, among others.

At the Opéra national de Paris: The Marriage of Figaro, 2022