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Performer: Oliver Mears

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ParisManon LescautNeuinszenierung

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Puccini: Manon Lescaut
Lorenzo Passerini; Oliver Mears; Annemarie Woods; Fabiana Piccioli; Orchestre National de France

LondonTosca

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Puccini: Tosca
Daniel Oren; Oliver Mears; The Royal Opera; Simon Lima Holdsworth; Ilona Karas; Fabiana Piccioli; Covent Garden Orchester des Royal Opera House

LondonLa GiocondaNeuinszenierung

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Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Sir Antonio Pappano; Oliver Mears; The Royal Opera; Philipp Fürhofer; Annemarie Woods; Fabiana Piccioli; Covent Garden Orchester des Royal Opera House
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A riveting Rigoletto revival at the Royal Opera House

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Sir Mark Elder celebrates 50 years at Covent Garden by returning to his first opera there in 1976 – Verdi's Rigoletto – in a revival of Oliver Mears' excellent 2021 production.
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Héroïque Gioconda à l’Opéra national de Grèce

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L'opéra d’Amilcare Ponchielli ouvre de fort belle manière la saison athénienne, avec une mise en scène audacieuse et convaincante d'Oliver Mears et un beau plateau vocal.
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Tosca from The Royal Opera: Netrebko returns, with a vengeance

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Oliver Mears' new staging impresses and Jakub Hrůša's first season as Music Director excites interest. But the evening belongs to Anna Netrebko.
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In Mears’ bleak Royal Opera Semele, Pretty Yende stands out

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Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 
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Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone

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Henry Neill gives a devastating performance as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti in The Royal Opera’s Bernstein double bill in the Linbury Theatre. 
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Jephtha at the ROH: magnificent singing, but short on dramatic punch

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Handel's last oratorio is stylishly set in the composer’s era, with an all-star cast of Handelian singers who give their all.
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Royal Ballet & Opera issues new statement on Palestine flag

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Director of Opera, Oliver Mears, was filmed trying to remove a Palestine flag raised by a performer during the final curtain call for Il trovatore. RBO has since said their “goal is to act with integrity and compassion.”

At the helm of the aircraft carrier: Oliver Mears

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Covent Garden's Director of Opera talks about directing opera, moving from a start-up to a behemoth and how The Royal Opera hopes to exit from the pandemic.