Oliver Mears
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 included the UK stage premiere of Benjamin Fleischmann's opera Rothschild's Violin, Mozart and Salieri, Trouble in Tahiti, A Hand of Bridge and The Knife's Tears.[1] The latter production toured to Prague and Brno in the Czech Republic in October 2010.
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 2012, L'Elisir D'Amore, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth, and The Turn of the Screw.[3] In 2014 his production of The Turn of the Screw premiered at Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow.
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.
He has also directed productions for the Young Vic, Early Opera Company, Opera North, Nederlandse Reisopera Holland, Pimlico Opera, and Scottish Opera, and directs Don Giovanni at Bergen National Opera in spring 2015.