Oliver Mears to be Royal Opera House's director of opera

The 37-year-old has led Northern Ireland Opera for the past six years; Antonio Pappano hails his ‘genuine passion for the art form’Oliver Mears, the artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera who once staged Britten Noye’s Fludde in Belfast zoo as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, is to be the new director of opera at Covent Garden.

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