Covent Garden appoints commissioning director

The Royal Opera has created a new post of associate director for Netia Jones.

She will take charge of the indeterminate Linbury Theatre and share responsibility with Oliver Mears for commissioning new work in the main house. She starts work next week.

Jones is director of Transition, a multimedia performance group and Lightmap, a mixed media partnership. She saysL ‘I am delighted to join Oliver Mears and the Company. The Linbury Theatre is the perfect space to explore new technologies, to forge global connections and to reflect the artistic ambition of this exceptional Company. I look forward to working with the team on developing a programme of work that expands the boundaries of what this unlimited and unstoppable art form can be.’