Bohème, Pelleas et Melisande (Opera Theatre Company, Dublin), The Rake's Progress, Eugene Onegin (Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester), Hansel and Gretel (New Zealand Opera), Rotter (Oper Köln), Carmen (Gothenburg Opera/University of Otago), Madama Butterfly (Grazer Oper/Danish National Opera, University of Otago), Aida (Lyric Opera Productions), La Rondine, L'elisir d'amore, Falstaff (Opera North), Die Meistersinger, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Csardasfürstin, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Faust, The Queen of Spades (Grazer Oper), Maria Stuarda, Simon Boccanegra (Chelsea Opera Group). His appearance in the final of the 2005 Leeds Conductors Competition led to his debut with the BBC Philharmonic and at the BBC Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall with the same orchestra. His German operatic debut came in 2008 stepping in at two weeks' notice to conduct Torsten Rasch's opera Rotter at Oper Köln. Other highlights of his career so far have been a CD of music by NZ composer Anthony Ritchie with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducting the world premiere of Ross Harris's Violin Concerto no. 1 with British violinist Anthony Marwood and the same orchestra, and recording a CD with Bryn Terfel and the orchestra of Welsh National Opera for Deutsche Grammophon. He has also appeared in concert with Bryn and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. In July 2013, Evans conducted three world premieres of John Tavener with the BBC Philharmonic at the Manchester International Festival. 2014 saw premieres of Anthony Ritchie's Violin Concerto with Southern Sinfonia and Bella Hristova and the opera This Other Eden by Anthony Ritchie and Michelanne Forster at Arts Festival Dunedin. Later positions In 2015, Evans returned to the BBC Philharmonic, recording a concert of NZ and Australian music for the 2015 Anzac Day commemorations and worked with Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg recording the orchestral tracks as part of John Psathas' 'No Man's Land' project. Other recent highlights include BBC New generation artist recordings with BBC NOW and soloists Pavel Kolesnikov and Narek Hakhnazaryan, Messiah with Huddersfield Choral Society and the Royal Northern Sinfonia, Messiah in Edinburgh, his Norwegian debut with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra and performances of Gershwin's Crazy for You with Gothenburg Opera. Early in 2016, Evans made his debut with the BBC Singers and returns to the ensemble in 2017. In January 2017 he was appointed to a two-year fixed term position at the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries