[1][2] Carthy was appointed Kapellmeister at the Landestheater in Salzburg where he made his operatic debut conducting Mozart's Marriage of Figaro.
[1] Carthy has conducted opera productions in Vienna, Salzburg, Oslo, Stockholm, Winterthur, Milan, Rome, Naples, Eugene, and Tel Aviv.
[1][2] Carthy conducted the first performances of Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face in Sweden, Israel, Switzerland and Italy.
[1] He has worked with distinguished soloists including Radu Lupu, Alicia de Larrocha, Natalia Gutman, Viktoria Mullova, Waltraud Meier, Robert Dean Smith and Wolfgang Holzmair.
[1][2] Carthy was a guest professor at the opera school in Stockholm (1996-2002) and is musical director of the Portland State University Summer Program.