Oliver von Dohnanyi's operatic engagements include Carmen, La Gioconda, Hamlet and The Bartered Bride (Opera North), Falstaff, Die lustige Witwe and Mefistofele (English National Opera), Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (Wexford Festival), Aida (Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf), Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Il Turco in Italia (State Opera Prague), The Bartered Bride and Case Makropoulos (Janacek Opera Brno), the world premiere of Golem by Hanus Barton, Don Giovanni, The Bartered Bride and Cyrano de Bergerac (Ostrava), La Bohème and La Traviata (Osaka), Der fliegende Holländer (Kassel), Eugene Onegin (Stuttgart), Rusalka (Las Palmas), The Bartered Bride (Baltimore Opera), Mefistofele (Basle), a concert performance of Ernani (English Chamber Orchestra , Barbican London), The Excursions of Mr. Broucek (Charleston Festival), Tosca and Die lustige Witwe (Reisopera Enschede), Falstaff and Jenufa (Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen), a concert performance of Libuse (Edinburgh International Festival), Madama Butterfly, Aida, La Bohème, and Rusalka (New Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava), Ariadne auf Naxos (Britten-Pears School, Aldeburgh), Macbeth and Romeo et Juliette (Badisches Staatstheater, Karlsruhe) and The Bartered Bride, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Rusalka, Samson and Delilah, Macbeth, Libuse, Don Pasquale, Tosca, Norma, The Whirlpool and Aida (Prague National Theatre).

He has also conducted a Ballet Evening at the Vienna Staatsoper, Alexander Nevsky (Teatro San Carlo Naples), Prokofiev's Cinderella, A Midsummer Night's and the premiere of In The Blue Garden (Bayerisches Staatsballett Munich), Romeo et Juliette (Prokofiev) and Rusalka (Zürich), Don Giovanni (Lecce), and Macbeth, Tosca, The Spectre's Bride, Don Pasquale and La Bohème (Bratislava).

Recent engagements include Jenufa (Malaga), Turandot (Trento, Livorno and Savona), Dalibor (Litomysl Festival), Ariadne auf Naxos, Faust and The Bartered Bride (National Moravian-Silesian Theatre in Ostrava).

Upcoming engagements include Madama Butterfly and Aida (Bratislava), Libuse (Prague National Theatre), Eugen Onegin (Stuttgart), and Rusalka (Leeds).