Highlights of recent opera seasons feature Bellini’s I Puritani conducted by Marco Armiliato and Count Almaviva in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, both at the Wiener Staatsoper, Cherubini’s Médée at theThéâtre des Champs-Élysées conducted by Christophe Rousset, and La cenerentola for New Zealand Opera.  He has given the world première of Robin de Raaff’s Waiting for Miss Monroe at the Netherlands Opera, and has sung Der fliegende Holländer under the baton of Jeffrey Tate at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Don Giovanni for a South American debut at the Teatro Colón with conductor John Neschling, and The Pearl Fishers with the English National Opera.  Further operatic credits includeSalome at the Verbier Festival led Valery Gergiev, La cenerentola and Così fan tutte at Minnesota Opera,Don Giovanni and Hamlet at Washington National Opera, Lakmé with L’Opéra de Montréal, and a new Jonathan Miller production of The Elixir of Love at both English National Opera and the New York City Opera.  Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia has featured prominently in the tenor’s career with performances at English National Opera, New York City Opera, Edmonton Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, L’Opéra de Québec, and in a new Leon Major production at Glimmerglass Opera.

Symphonic engagements include Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Iván Fischer and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s Faust with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst, and Carmina Burana with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony.  Other concert appearances feature Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War with Bernard Labadie and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Berlioz’ Te Deum under the direction of Charles Dutoit at the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Haydn’s The Creation with John Nelson and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.  He has sung Mozart’s Requiem with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (recorded and commercially available on Telarc), Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Nicholas McGegan and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Händel’s Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and with Emmanuelle Haïm and Le Concert d’Astrée on tour in Vienna, Paris, Frankfurt, Cologne, and Milan.

Sept 2016