Dame Gwyneth Jones made her debut at the Zürich Opera House in 1962. She has been singing at the Royal Opera Covent Garden since 1963 and is member of the Vienna Staatsoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper in München and the Deutsche Oper Berlin since 1966. She is one of the most successful and versatile opera singers in the world and has sung in all the important opera houses and festivals.In Vienna, München, London, Paris, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at La Scala in Milano, in Roma and Firenze she has triumphed in operas by Richard Strauss (Elektra, Salomé, Ariadne auf Naxos, Die Ägyptische Helena, Der Rosenkavalieret Die Frau ohne Schatten), by Verdi (Aida, Il Trovatore, Don Carlo, Macbeth) and by Puccini (Turandot, Tosca, La Fanciulla del west, Madama Butterfly). At the Bayreuth Festival she proved to be an outstanding interpreter of the characters of Richard Wagner and was the first singer ever to sing both Elisabeth and Venus (Tannhäuser). In 1976, she was Brünnhilde in the successful Boulez/Chéreau version of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen for the centenary celebration of the Festival. She has worked with great conductors like Abbado, Bernstein, Böhm, Boulez, Maazel, Muti, Ozawa, Solti and with stage directors such as Chéreau, Hartmann, Kupfer, Ponnelle, Ronconi, Visconti and Zefirelli. Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth II appointed her Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and she is one of the few singers who have ever received the highest honours in Great Britain, France, Austria, Germany, France and Italy. She recently made her debut as Stage Director, with a new production of Der Fliegender Holländerby Richard Wagner in Weimarand gives master classes in many countries.