‘We want people on the edge of their seats’: Royal Opera boss Oliver Mears on the new season – and the controversies of the last

T he morning I meet Oliver Mears, the director of opera at Covent Garden, I’m still walking on air. The day before I’d seen , the third part of the Ring cycle. Nearly six hours long, it is an immersion into a world of gods and giants, heroes and warrior women – but also profound and poignant human r...

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