He is a regular at English National Opera where successes have included Olivier Award-winning productions of Handel's Partenope,[6] and Rameau’s Castor et Pollux (dir.
[7] For The Royal Opera, Covent Garden he has conducted Britten’s The Beggar's Opera, Cavalli's Ormindo to inaugurate their series at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare's Globe,[8] where he returned for Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo (nominated for an Olivier Award), and Claudio Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse at the Roundhouse,[2] as well as Solomon in concert on the main stage with his Early Opera Company.
Further afield he has worked with Opera Australia (Partenope), Landestheater Salzburg (Vivaldi’s Farnace and Handel's Ariodante), Frankfurt Opera (Cavalli's La Calisto and Gluck’s Ezio), Komische Oper Berlin (Rameau's Castor et Pollux and Zoroastre), Opéra national du Rhin (Die Zauberflöte), Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Idomeneo), Konzert Theater Bern (Don Giovanni) and Stuttgart Opera (Rameau's Platée, Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Handel's Alcina).
With his Early Opera Company he has conducted many high-profile performances including their debut at the 2010 BBC Proms.
[13] In September 2022, the Early Opera Company released Handel's Amadigi di Gaula, featuring Tim Mead, Hilary Summers, Anna Dennis and Mary Bevan.