The Royal Ballet and Opera today introduces that Netia Jones has actually been assigned to the freshly produced placement of associate supervisor of The Royal Opera.
Over the previous 20 years the British- birthed Jones has actually sculpted a profession covering opera, theater, shows and immersive installment tasks as a supervisor, developer and video clip musician. Recently she guided the Royal Opera’s very first online fact opera Current, Rising, and her hosting– as supervisor and developer– of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Garsington Opera this summer season was hailed as “stylish and very funny”.
Jones has actually likewise guided for firms throughout the globe, hosting and making manufacturings of opera and songs theater functions varying from Kurtág to Knussen and Handel to Haas, most of which have actually included introducing use video clip estimates, merging modern technology, songs and dramatization to spectacular impact.
Her brand-new function will certainly provide her key obligation for opera programs in the Linbury theater, the Royal Ballet and Opera’s smaller sized 2nd theater that seats approximately 400. Working together with supervisor of opera Oliver Mears she will certainly likewise play a vital function in driving the broader creative outcome of The Royal Opera– specifically its advancements in development, worldwide partnerships, and the appointing of brand-new job.
“I’m very excited by the integration of technology in opera; I think that’s the whole point about opera,” claimedJones “Oliver and I have already had really interesting and exciting conversations simply about opera – what it is, what it means.
“It isn’t just one thing, nor is there just one kind – opera can manifest itself in so many different ways,” she claimed. “I’m looking forward to exploring very different aspects of opera-making. It can and should be an unlimited and unstoppable art form.”
Technology and development play an integral part in opening concert hall to those that would not always really feel these are areas for them, she included. Always at the center of her innovative job, it will certainly remain to be something that she considers deeply.
“I’m not scared of any technology because it is what we do as human beings: we invent and we create. And we just need to invent and create for the better, not for the worse,” she claimed.
And AI is naturally component of the conversation. “Every technology affects the way that we think, behave and interact. AI is not going away. It will become a part of our humanity, and therefore a part of our art-making. We have to figure out the very best way of making that happen, and not be scared of it. I’m interested in how it can enable us to do things that we couldn’t have done before, how it can corral our expertise.”
Jones starts her function in December; in September 2025, Jakub Hr ůša signs up with as songs supervisor and Speranza Scappucci as primary visitor conductor.
