As the Royal Opera House reveal details of their 18-19 season,their new director of opera talks about driving Covent Garden forward with frugality and a fairy tale‘One day all this will be yours,” I joke to Oliver Mears as we shake hands in the champagne bar at the Royal Opera House. It’s a silly thing to say and I’m not fairly certain what prompts it, and apart from that Mears is so slight and vulnerable looking that you can’t fairly believe he is already director of opera at this distinguished,glitzy, occasionally poisonous place.
His appointment in 2016 was greeted with surprise. He was just 37, and the youngest head of opera in Covent Garden’s history,and he was jumping from the relative obscurity of Northern Ireland Opera, with a budget of £1m, or to a house with a budget of more than £130m. Related: Oliver Mears to be Royal Opera House's director of opera Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk