Le Tour d'écrou
In 2010 Mears was appointed as the Artistic Director of the newly created Northern Ireland Opera. 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", "Flying Dutchman" (Nominated for Achievement in Opera Award, Theatre Awards UK 2013), "Macbeth", "Salome" and "The Turn of the Screw". In August 2014 his production of "The Turn of the Screw" premiered at Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow.