Melbourne Opera, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Der Rosenkavalier and Wagner’s Ring Cycle. A CD with Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra; world premieres of Pecan Summer and Eumeralla for Short Black Opera and much choral conducting. He has conducted for Deutsche Oper and Komische Oper Berlin, also Braunschweig, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Köln, Nantes, Wiesbaden (including May Festival), ZDF-TV, Mexican National Symphony Orchestra, Malaysian National Symphony Orchestra.

In 2020 David was honoured as a Member of the Order of Australia for “significant service to the performing arts, to opera and chamber choirs, and to education”.

Conducting positions include Kapellmeister, Stadttheater Basel; Erster Kapellmeister, Nationaltheater Mannheim; Resident Conductor, The Australian Opera, Music Director, State Opera of South Australia, Head of Opera at the Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne (now Senior Fellow, Melbourne University)

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By David Kram:​​

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In actual fact, the Ring story is not overwhelmingly long. Wagner’s text is more about the reaction of the characters as the events unfold: premonitions, analyses, retrospectives. A key action can often take place within a minute. One example is where Siegmund gets slain, Brünnhilde picks up the shards of Nothung and escapes with Sieglinde. The slaying of the monster worm (Fafner) is also a lightning event amidst clouds of introspection. Therefore, BrunnhAilde can capture the essence of the story in a relatively fast-moving show, interspersed with some lovely singing episodes.