In 2000, he was awarded the first prize of the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Regie und Bühnenbild (International competition for direction and stage set) in Graz.

[3] He directed Verdi's Rigoletto at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 2009,[2] and the same year at the festival Ruhrtriennale the premiere of Sing für mich, Tod!

[4] He directed Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher at the Theater Basel, and Verdi's Macbeth at the Aalto Theatre in Essen.

[2] He staged at the Deutsche Oper Berlin first in 2012 Helmut Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern[5] and then Janáček's Věc Makropulos.

He directed for the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe Les Troyens by Berlioz, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and in 2016 Wagner's Das Rheingold.