Jones, Richard (1953– )

English stage director. He directed the Battignano Festival 1984–85, with operas by Mozart, Salieri, and Paisiello. He also directed Mignon at the 1986 Wexford Festival, Manon and Carmen for Opera North in 1987, and The Love for Three Oranges and the first performance of The Plumber's Gift by David Blake for the English National Opera Ensemble (1989). He has also worked at Scottish Opera (Macbeth and Die Walküre), Bregenz (Mazeppa), and Munich (Giulio Cesare). A stimulating Ring cycle for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, (1994–95) began with latex-rubber Rhinemaidens in Das Rheingold and continued with a gym-slip Brünnhilde in Die Walküre.

He studied in Hull and London, and made his debut with the Scottish Opera in 1982, with Argento's A Water Bird Talk.