MTW performs newly commissioned works, alongside existing pieces from the recent past which are either neglected or have been unseen in the UK.
This was followed by the European premiere of Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher which toured in Wales and England, establishing en route many long-term relationships with venues and festivals, and led to the company's first international collaboration when it was presented in Norway as the first production of Opera Vest (recently re-formed as Den Nye Opera–Norway's second main-scale opera company presenting a mixed programme of new and established repertoire).
2010 sees the Signum Records release of a CD of Michael Berkeley’s opera For You and the UK premiere tour of In the Penal Colony by Philip Glass.
In 2013 MTW gave the UK premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's Luci mie traditrici, in an English translation with the title 'The Killing Flower'.
In Autumn 2017 the company's touring production of The Golden Dragon by the Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös was acclaimed by reviewers, but ran into trouble from "yellowface" activists, who threatened to picket performances: this resulted in the production being banned from the stage of the Hackney Empire, and subsequent public apologies from MTW's management.