Following a series of successful European debuts in 2004/2005, he has appeared with many leading orchestras, such as the Dresden Staatskapelle, Orchestre National de France, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Since 2008, he made acclaimed first visits to the Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra (Washington), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker and the Tonhalle Orchestra (Zurich). Debuts are planned with Chicago Symphony, Berliner Philharmoniker and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.
Recent opera productions in Canada were Gounod’s Faust (Canadian Opera, 2007) and Madama Butterfly (Opéra de Montréal, 2008) and he will return to Opéra de Montréal with Salomé in 2010/2011. After an outstandingly successful debut at the 2008 Salzburg Festival, conducting a new production of Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with the Mozarteum Orchestra and a cast led by Rolando Villazon and Niño Machaidze, he will return for two operas (Mozart’s Don Giovanni, with the Wiener Philharmoniker, and Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, again with the Mozarteum Orchestra)at the 2010 edition. He also made acclaimed debut at the Netherlands Opera (Amsterdam) in May 2009 (The Makropoulos Case), returning a year later for Turandot. In December 2009, he made greatly acclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of Carmen starring Roberto Alagna and Elina Garanča, and will appear there every season from now on. Future opera also includes La Scala di Milano and the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden, London, respectively in 2010/2011 and 2011/2012.
During 2010, his plans with the Rotterdam Philharmonic include, in addition to one concert every year at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, three programs at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, as part of their recently announced residency, his first appearance with the orchestra at the 2010 BBC Proms and the closing concert of the 2010 Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam.
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