Opera director Netia Jones: ‘AI is not going away. Either you batten down the hatches or you ride the wave’

Royal Opera’s new associate director on her obsession with Peter Grimes, winning over tech-sceptics and the joy of school matinee showsBorn in London, where she still lives, to an artist mother and musician father, Netia Jones is the new associate director of the Royal Opera. Known for using immersive installations, film and VR, her operas include Alice in Wonderland, Least Like the Other with Brian Irvine, which won the Ivor Novello best opera award, and Peter Grimes, which finished its run last week at the Gothenburg Opera House. Next year she will curate the Royal Ballet and Opera’s first opera and technology festival, RBO/Shift.The first opera you ever saw, when you were 10, was Peter Grimes. How has it been to revisit the tragic fisherman’s tale?Relentless! It’s such a brilliant story but so bleak; it gets under your skin. Doing it in Gothenburg, which was cold and very wet, was perfect, although not the best thing for your mental health. Continue reading...

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