Recent symphonic engagements include Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, National Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Berlin Philharmonic; Handel’s Messiah with the Singapore Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Theater an der Wien; Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Milwaukee Symphony; Berlioz’s Te Deum with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Idomeneo with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, which was recorded and released by Harmonia Mundi; Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Boston Symphony at the Tanglewood Festival; and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the National Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Croft is a frequent collaborator with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre, and he was the soloist on their European tour and recording (released on Harmonia Mundi) featuring musical odes to Saint Cecilia by Purcell, Haydn, and Handel. He also joined Les Musiciens du Louvre in a special concert for President Sarkozy and invited French dignitaries to celebrate the reopening of the newly-refurbished Palace of Versailles.

In Europe, has been seen in numerous leading roles at the opera companies of Hamburg, Cologne, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Milan, Nice, Lyon, Stockholm, Glyndebourne, and Salzburg, among others. He has been heard at the Paris Opera as Don Ottavio at the Bastille and as Tacmas in Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes at the Palais Garnier, which was later released on DVD. At the Staatsoper Berlin, he has been heard as Almaviva, Ferrando, and the Composer in Gassman’s Opera Seria, and he has performed the role of Pelléas with Deutsche Oper Berlin. At the Zurich Opera, Mr. Croft debuted as Abaris in Rameau’s Les Boréades in a new production by Laurent Pelly, and his debut at Teatro alla Scala was in the title role of Idomeneo. He has been heard in London at the Royal Albert Hall as Pelléas with Sir Andrew Davis, in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouw in Ariodante, at the Konzerthaus in Vienna as Hyllus in Handel’s Hercules, as well as at the Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg as Orphée, in the Paris version of Gluck’s Orphée et Euridice with Marc Minkowski leading Les Musiciens du Louvre.

Mr. Croft is renowned throughout North America for his versatility. At the Metropolitan Opera, he has sung Ferrando in Così fan tutte under the baton of James Levine, Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, M. K. Gandhi in Philip Glass’s Satyagraha and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. He made his debuts with Houston Grand Opera and Washington Opera as Ferrando as well. He has performed Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito with The Dallas Opera and Santa Fe Opera, where he has also sung Belmonte and Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress.

In concert, Mr. Croft debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra in the title role of Pelléas et Mélisande in concerts led by Pierre Boulez, where he was hailed as “impassioned, clear-toned and ideal”; he made his Carnegie Hall debut under Sir Neville Marriner in Mozart’s Requiem; and he made his St. Louis Symphony debut with Nicolas McGegan in Britten’s Serenade. He made his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in Mozart’s Requiem with Bernard Haitink. Of his performance of Handel’s Jephtha at Alice Tully Hall with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Alan Kozinn of The New York Times praised, “…[it was] some of the most supple and emotionally resonant Handel singing I have ever heard.”

Mr. Croft has been Grammy-nominated for his recordings of Handel’s Hercules with Anne Sophie von Otter (Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv) and Scarlatti’s Il Primo Omicidio with Dorothea Roshmann (Harmonia Mundi). Other recordings with Deutsche Grammophon include Handel’s Ariodante and the Paris version of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice, both with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre. For Erato, he has recorded Handel’s Theodora with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants. On Phillips Classics, he has been featured on Rameau’s Les Indes Gallantes from the Paris Opera and as Almaviva from the Netherlands Opera in Dario Fo’s production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He can also be heard on Querstand Records performing Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Gewandhausorchester under Herbert Blomstedt. His performance in Peter Sellars’ critically-acclaimed production of Theodora from Glyndebourne has been released on DVD, as has his performance in the title role of Mozart’s Mitridate with the Salzburg Festival (Decca).