Alongside his engagements with his resident orchestras, in the past season he conducted the opening of the Bavarian State Opera season (Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczała), made his debut with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, appeared at the Beethovenfest Bonn, collaborated with the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic, and conducted Verdi’s Otello at the Leipzig Opera and Don Carlo at the Bavarian State Opera (stepping in for Maestro Zubin Mehta), as well as Puccini’s Turandot at the Semperoper Dresden.

Within his discography, the album Puccini: I Canti, featuring Charles Castronovo and the Munich Radio Orchestra, received the Opus Klassik Award in the category “Solo Recording of the Year,” while Dejan Lazić’s Istrian Rhapsody, also with the Munich Radio Orchestra, earned a nomination in the category “Concert Recording of the Year”. As a passionate ambassador of Croatian music, during the past season he also performed and recorded Dora Pejačević’s Symphony with the Staatskapelle Weimar, Frano Parać’s opera Judita with the Munich Radio Orchestra and the Croatian Radiotelevision Choir, and Boris Papandopulo’s Croatian Mass with Croatian soloists and the Bavarian Radio Choir which, released by BR-Klassik, received two Porin Awards: for “Best Performance” and “Best Classical Music Album”.

The album Golden Age (featuring soloists Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee) was named among the best classical albums of 2025 by The New York Times and BBC Music Magazine, and was awarded “Best Solo Album” at the Oper! Awards 2026 by Oper! Magazin. His most recent album, Dora Pejačević: Complete Symphonic Works, recorded with the Staatskapelle Weimar, mezzo-soprano Annika Schlicht, and pianist Martina Filjak, was released by Audite in March 2026 and has already been selected as “Album of the Week” by Radio Klassik Stephansdom, Kulturradio RBB, and SWR2.

Maestro Repušić began his professional career within German cultural institutions as First Conductor of the State Opera in Hanover (2010–2013), where he later served as Music Director (2016-2019). During this period, he conducted numerous operatic premieres – including Salome, La damnation de Faust, The Flying Dutchman, Manon Lescaut, and Aida – as well as symphonic concerts. Following his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a production of Puccini’s La bohème (2011), he was appointed conductor of that opera house and since 2014 has served as its first permanent guest conductor. To date, he has conducted more than 150 performances of around twenty different opera titles, including Macbeth, Tosca, Turandot, La bohème, Eugene Onegin, Nabucco, Un ballo in maschera, La traviata, Carmen, The Magic Flute, Lucia di Lammermoor, Tannhäuser, La Gioconda, Falstaff, Don Carlo, Francesca da Rimini, The Flying Dutchman, among many others. As Chief Conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra since 2017, he has conducted numerous concert performances of operas – including Luisa Miller, I due Foscari, Attila, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Ernani, La rondine, Ero the Joker, Aleko, Francesca da Rimini, among others – as well as a broad repertoire of orchestral works.

He appears as a guest at leading opera houses, including the Bavarian State Opera (Un ballo in maschera), the Berlin State Opera (Rigoletto, Tosca), Opernhaus Zürich (I vespri siciliani), the Semperoper Dresden (Faust, Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, The Magic Flute, La traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Tosca, Don Carlo, Madama Butterfly, Turandot), the Hamburg State Opera (L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, La bohème, Tosca, Simon Boccanegra), the Komische Oper Berlin (Rigoletto, La traviata), the Aalto Music Theatre in Essen (Falstaff), and the New National Theatre in Tokyo (La traviata).

Performances have taken him to concert halls such as the Gasteig, Herkulessaal, and Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Vienna Musikverein, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the Smetana Hall in Prague, and the Lucerne Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, as well as at prestigious festivals, including Beethovenfest Bonn and the Verdi Festival in Parma.

He has conducted numerous leading orchestras, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie in Hannover, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in Oslo, Brussels Philharmonic, and the Tokyo Philharmonic, among others.

His discography comprises thirty albums released by BR-Klassik, Warner Classics, cpo, Pentatone, Audite, and Cantus. These recordings have received awards such as the ICMA, Opus Klassik, Diapason d’Or, Oper! Awards, and the Porin Award. He has developed a particularly fruitful recording collaboration — including works by Croatian composers — with the Munich Radio Orchestra, as well as with the Bavarian Radio Choir alongside leading international soloists, and with the Staatskapelle Weimar.

Ivan Repušić received his early and secondary musical education in Zadar, Croatia, where he also gained his first conducting experience. He studied conducting at the Zagreb Academy of Music under Igor Gjadrov and Vjekoslav Šutej and further developed his skills with Jorma Panula, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Kazushi Ono, and Donald Runnicles. He began his professional career at the Croatian National Theatre in Split (2002), where he served as Chief Conductor and Director of the Opera (2006–2009). During this period, he conducted numerous performances spanning Italian, French, Russian, and Croatian operatic repertoire, including Verdi’s Don Carlo, Aida, Simon Boccanegra, Il trovatore, Nabucco; Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, La bohème; Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin; Gounod’s Faust; Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and L’elisir d’amore; Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia; Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci; Jakov Gotovac’s Ero the Joker; Josip Hatze’s The Return, among others. He also served as Music Director of the Split Summer Festival (2006–2009) and the Dubrovnik Summer Festival (2010–2012). Alongside his conducting career, he was dedicated to teaching at the Academy of Arts, University of Split (2004–2016), where he earned the title of Associate Professor. Since 2005, he has been Chief Conductor of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra.

For his artistic achievements, he has received numerous prestigious Croatian awards, including the Vladimir Nazor Award, Vatroslav Lisinski Award, Milka Trnina Award, Orlando Award, and the City of Zadar Award. The University of Zadar awarded him an honorary doctorate in recognition of his extraordinary contributions in the fields of culture and art (2021). In October 2024, the President of the Republic of Croatia decorated him with the Order of the Croatian Star with Effigy of Marko Marulić for his exceptional achievements in culture and the promotion of Croatian culture both at home and abroad.