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ParisManon LescautNouvelle production

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

LondresTosca

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

LondresLa GiocondaNouvelle production

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Ponchielli: La Gioconda
Sir Antonio Pappano; Oliver Mears; The Royal Opera; Philipp Fürhofer; Annemarie Woods; Fabiana Piccioli; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Héroïque Gioconda à l’Opéra national de Grèce

La Gioconda à l'Opéra national de Grèce © A. Simopoulos
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.

A riveting Rigoletto revival at the Royal Opera House

George Petean (Rigoletto) © RBO 2026 | Marc Brenner
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.

Tosca from The Royal Opera: Netrebko returns, with a vengeance

Anna Netrebko (Tosca) and Gerald Finley (Scarpia) © The Royal Opera | Marc Brenner
Oliver Mears' new staging impresses and Jakub Hrůša's first season as Music Director excites interest. But the evening belongs to Anna Netrebko.

In Mears’ bleak Royal Opera Semele, Pretty Yende stands out

Pretty Yende (Semele) © The Royal Opera | Camilla Greenwell
Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 

Bernstein’s devastating double bill of raw emotion cuts to the bone

Wallis Giunta (Dinah) © Marc Brenner 2024
Henry Neill gives a devastating performance as Sam in Trouble in Tahiti in The Royal Opera’s Bernstein double bill in the Linbury Theatre. 

Jephtha at the ROH: magnificent singing, but short on dramatic punch

Allan Clayton (Jephtha) © ROH | Marc Brenner
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

Oliver Mears attempts to remove Palestine flag during Il trovatore curtain call © Noga Levy-Rapoport (on Twitter/X) | Make Freedom Ring
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

Oliver Mears © Sim Canetty-Clarke
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.