Alongside his engagements with his resident orchestras, in the past season he conducted the gala closing concerts of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival (Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, Sonya Yoncheva, Joseph Calleja, Ante Jerkunica) and the opening of the Bavarian State Opera season (Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, Aigul Akhmetshina, Piotr Beczała). He 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.

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 from 2016 to 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 German debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a production of Puccini’s La bohème (2011), he was appointed conductor of that opera house from the 2012/2013 season and, since 2014, has served as its first Principal Guest Conductor. To date, he has led a wide range of acclaimed operatic performances, 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, La rondine, Ero the Joker, Ernani, among others – as well as a broad repertoire of orchestral works.

In collaboration with leading international soloists, the Munich Radio Orchestra, and the Bavarian Radio Choir, he has recorded more than twenty releases for major European labels, including BR-Klassik, Warner Classics, cpo, and Pentatone. These recordings include works by Croatian composers such as Jakov Gotovac, Igor Kuljerić, Dejan Lazić, Natko Devčić, Ivan Matetić Ronjgov, Frano Parać, and Boris Papandopulo. Many of these releases have received prestigious awards, including the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA), Opus Klassik, Diapason d’Or, and Porin. Among his most recent recordings are Giacomo Puccini: Messa di Gloria, Verdi: Complete Ballet Music, Puccini: Le Villi (BR-Klassik), and the album Golden Age (Pentatone), featuring soloists Erin Morley and Lawrence Brownlee with the Munich Radio Orchestra. Golden Age was selected by The New York Times and BBC Music Magazine as one of the best classical music albums of 2025. The album Odrazi moderne (Cantus/HRT), recorded with the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, received three Porin Awards (Best Album, Best Performance, and Best Recording).

He has conducted numerous leading orchestras across Europe and beyond, including the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (North German Radio, Hamburg), Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Mannheim National Theatre Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Norwegian National Opera Orchestra in Oslo, Brussels Philharmonic, Tokyo Philharmonic, Slovenian, Pannonian, and Zagreb Philharmonics, and the Croatian Radiotelevision Symphony Orchestra, among others. He is a regular guest at major European festivals and concert halls, including the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Berlin Konzerthaus, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Munich Gasteig, Herkulessaal and Prinzregententheater, Prague Smetana Hall, Lucerne Kultur- und Kongresszentrum, the Verdi Festival in Parma, Beethovenfest Bonn, and many others. Maestro Repušić frequently appears at renowned opera houses, including the Bavarian State Opera (Un ballo in maschera), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Rigoletto, Tosca), Semperoper Dresden (The Magic Flute, La traviata, Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Tosca, Don Carlo, Madama Butterfly, Turandot), Hamburg State Opera (L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, La bohème, Tosca, Simon Boccanegra), Leipzig Opera (Madama Butterfly, The Magic Flute), Komische Oper Berlin (Rigoletto, La traviata), Aalto Musiktheater Essen (Falstaff), and Opernhaus Zürich (I vespri siciliani), among others. He is also a welcomed guest on prestigious stages outside Europe, including the New National Theatre in Tokyo (La traviata).

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.