In the UK he has conducted "Billy Budd", "Andrea Chénier", "Un ballo in maschera" and "Don Carlos" for Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and "Aida", "Wozzeck", "The Makropoulos Affair", and (in a co-production with Scottish Opera) the UK premières of Schnittke’s "Life with an Idiot" for English National Opera. His opera work abroad includes engagements in Frankfurt (where he was, for two seasons, Principal Guest Conductor), Geneva, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Rome, Lisbon, Brussels, Nice, Canada, Australia, Stuttgart, Berlin, Toulouse and Los Angeles.