With a long record of conducting Croatia's top opera companies and orchestras, Ivan Repušić has increasingly often been heard in top German opera houses. He is also a noted educator. In 2002, Repušić began to land guest conducting positions, and from 2006 to 2008, he was the music director of the Opera of the Croatian National Theater in Split. From 2006 to 2012, he was the director of two of Croatia's prominent summer festivals. Repušić became Kapellmeister of Germany's Hanover State Opera in 2010, and in 2012, he assumed the same position at the Staatsoper Berlin. With the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Repušić has made several recordings, including Fuoco di Gioia!: Berühmte Opernchöre in 2019. In 2023, he led a recording of the Johannespassion of composer Damijan Močnik.