From 1983 to 1988 he was artistic director of Opéra de Lyon, where he founded its new orchestra. Gardiner has conducted opera productions at the Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Opéra national de Paris, Royal Opera House, and most recently at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 2021 with Verdi’s Falstaff. In 2017, they celebrated the 450th anniversary of the birth of Monteverdi, for which they were awarded the RPS Music Award and Gardiner named Conductor of the Year at the Opernwelt Awards.
Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras perform regularly at the world's major venues and festivals, including Salzburg, Berlin and Lucerne festivals, the Lincoln Center, and the Royal Albert Hall in 2021, Gardiner made his 60th appearance at the BBC Proms conducting works by Handel and Bach. Guest conducting highlights this season include invitations to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Haydn The Creation), Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (Berlioz and Elgar), the Berliner Philharmoniker (Brahms and Mendelssohn), and Royal Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (Brahms Symphony No.2 and Piano Concert No.1). Gardiner's long relationship with the LSO has led to complete symphony cycles and numerous recordings on LSO Live, most recently of Mendelssohn and Schumann in June 2022, he will conduct the LSO with soloist Maria João Pires at the Barbican and at LSO St Luke’s. His many recording accolades include two GRAMMY awards and he has received more Gramophone Awards than any other living artist. Since 2005 the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestras have recorded on their independent label, Soli Deo Gloria, established to release the live recordings made during Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in 2000, for which he received Gramophone's 2011 Special Achievement Award and a Diapason d'or de l'année 2012. The extent of Gardiner's repertoire is illustrated in the extensive catalogue of award-winning recordings with his own ensembles and leading orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic on major labels (including Decca, Philips, Erato and 30 recordings for Deutsche Grammophon), as wide-ranging as Mozart, Schumann, Berlioz, Elgar and Kurt Weill, in addition to works by Renaissance and Baroque composers.
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