reinbert de leeuw has been involved in various opera productions at the dutch national opera in amsterdam as well as with the nederlandse reisopera. productions include works by stravinsky ("the rake’s progress"), louis andriessen ("rosa - a horse drama"; "writing to vermeer"), györgy ligeti ("le grand macabre"), claude vivier ("rêves d’un marco polo"), robert zuidam ("rage d‘amours") and benjamin britten ("the turn of the screw"). in 2011, de leeuw conducted schoenberg's monumental "gurre-lieder", which was the realisation of an old ambition of his.