Among his four productions for The Metropolitan Opera are Salome (with its Dance of the Seven Veils for Karita Mattila), the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s An American Tragedy and Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, designed by David Hockney.
His MET Opera production of Hector Berloiz’s Les Troyens was broadcast worldwide in HD.
His choreography for the musical Murder Ballad at the Manhattan Theater Club earned him a Lortel Award nomination.
In 2008, Varone’s Bottomland, set in the Mammoth Caves of Kentucky, was the subject of the PBS broadcast Dance in America: Wolf Trap’s Face of America.
As an educator, Varone holds workshops and master classes worldwide for dancers, musicians and actors.