New National Theatre Tokyo
As an opera conductor, his appearances include "La traviata" (Royal Opera House London), "Macbeth" (Savonlinna Festival); "Tristan und Isolde" and "Thaïs" (Novaya Opera Moscow); "Tristan und Isolde" and "Orfeo ed Euridice" (National Opera Prague); "Otello" (New National Theatre Tokyo); "Il viaggio a Reims" (Finnish National Opera); "I puritani" (Vienna Staatsoper); "Billy Budd" (Gothenburg Opera); "Venus and Adonis" (Teatro Carlo Felice Genova); "Tosca" (Opéra National de Paris); "La figlia del mago" (Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte); "Jenůfa" and "Hamlet" (Royal Danish Opera); the Chilean première of "Peter Grimes" and "I Lombardi" (Orquesta Filarmónica del Teatro Municipal de Santiago). Additional performances have included "Dialogues des Carmélites" (BBC Proms, Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Opéra national du Rhin), the latter winning the Claude-Rostand Best Regional Production Prize 1999 and the Diapason d’or for best opera video 2001. He has also made some recordings.