Oliver Mears

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oliver Mears is a theatrical director from England.

Education

Mears read English and History at Lincoln College, Oxford.^[1]

Second Movement

Mears founded Second Movement as joint Artistic Director with the conductor Nicholas Chalmers.^[2] His productions for them have included Mozart and Salieri, Trouble in Tahiti, and The Knife's Tears.^[1]

Northern Ireland Opera

In 2010 Mears was appointed as the Artistic Director of the newly created Northern Ireland Opera.^[3] His productions for them have included The Medium, Tosca, which won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Opera in 2011,^[4] and The Turn of the Screw.^[3]

His production of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde for NI Opera was performed at the Beijing Music Festival in October 2012, the Chinese premiere of the piece.^[4]

In the summer of 2013 he directed The Magic Flute for Nevill Holt Opera,^[5] once again pairing up with Nevill Holt's Artistic Director Nicholas Chalmers.

References

Persondata
Name	Mears, Oliver
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.