More recently, Ainsley has sung the roles of Soliman in "Zaide" and Belfiore in "La finta giardiniera" at the Salzburg Festival (2006), The Madwoman in Britten's "Curlew River" with Oper Frankfurt (2006), Pelléas in "Pelléas et Mélisande" with the Deutsche Oper Berlin (2006), Skuratov in Janáček's "From the House of the Dead" with both the Amsterdam and Vienna Festivals (2007), Hippolyt in the world premiere of Henze's "Phaedra" with the Berlin State Opera (2007) and La Monnaie (2007), Vere in "Billy Budd" with Oper Frankfurt (2007), Chevalier de la Force in "Dialogues des Carmelites" with the Hamburg State Opera (2008), and both Bajazete in "Tamerlano" and the title role in "Idomeneo" with the Bavarian State Opera (2008). Ainsley sung the role of Emilio in "Partenope" with the English National Opera in the autumn of 2008 and returned for performances at the Bavarian State Opera and Berlin State Opera in 2009. In 2010 his performance in the role of Captain Vere in "Billy Budd" was filmed by the Glyndebourne Festival for release in August 2010, and is streaming on Medici.tv.