[3] Following workshops at Banff in 2010, he directed the premier of the chamber opera Marilyn Forever by Gavin Bryars with the Aventa Ensemble in Victoria BC, 2013, followed by performances at the Adelaide Festival, Australia, in 2015.

[7] As its founder and artistic director, Ivany has worked to present modern adaptations of past operas.

Through his company, Against the Grain Theatre, he has produced adaptations of La bohème in a bar,[8] Pelléas et Mélisande in an outdoor courtyard,[9] Le nozze di Figaro in a wedding venue, aptly renamed Figaro's Wedding,[10] Così fan tutte renamed A Little Too Cozy[11] and set in a reality television dating game show and in one of the CBC's very own television studios in Toronto,[12] an outdoors reinterpretation of Mozart's Don Giovanni titled Uncle John,[13][14] a staged/choreographed Messiah,[15] and The Turn of the Screw in a converted attic.

[20] Ivany has written four original adaptations of opera librettos including La bohème, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro and Così fan tutte.

[21] In 2015 his production of Uncle John received three Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.