He became a member of the opera house, appearing in Mozart roles such as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte or Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, as Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos, and Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème.
[1] He has performed at the Bayreuth Festival, since 1996 the part of Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg with Daniel Barenboim, later with Christian Thielemann, since 1997 Amfortas in Parsifal with Giuseppe Sinopoli, later Christoph Eschenbach, since 2005 Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde.
He performed the words of Jesus (Vox Christi) in the St Matthew Passion in 1988 with John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists.
[3] As a recitalist, he recorded for example Lieder of Johannes Brahms together with Juliane Banse, Iris Vermillion and pianist Helmut Deutsch.
He has been teaching since 2005 at the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" Dresden and was appointed professor in 2007.