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

Verdi: Rigoletto
Sir Mark Elder; Oliver Mears; The Royal Opera; Simon Lima Holdsworth; Ilona Karas; Fabiana Piccioli; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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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.
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.
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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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.