Subsequently, he became one of the first members of the Houston Opera Studio (David Gockley and Carlisle Floyd, co-directors) where he made his debut as the Male Chorus in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia in 1979.
[3] In 1977, he previously appeared as Little Bat in Floyd's Susannah at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, a company with which he subsequently performed often.
Other roles with HGO included Tamino, Don Ramiro, Count Ory, Almaviva, Leandro, Schmidt, Valzacchi, and Silas Barnaby.
[5] In June 1982 he created the role of Katz in the world premiere of Stephen Paulus's The Postman Always Rings Twice at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL).
[13] The work reset Don Giovanni in 1990s South Bronx, was directed by Peter Sellars, and was broadcast internationally on PBS' Great Performances, ORF, and BBC Television.
[1] International and American programs where he has directed and taught include the American Institute of Musical Studies, Graz, Austria; La Musica Lirica, Novafeltria, Italy; the Greek Opera Studio of the Aegean Festival, Athens and Syros, Greece; the Festival of International Opera, Campinas, Brazil; Beveren Summer Singing Course, Antwerp, Belgium; the MusikHochschule Lübeck, Germany; Rising Star Vocal Works, Rising Sun, IN; and OBVI, Wichita Falls, TX.
His dedication to the training of young operatic artists has taken him to Cleveland Institute, UMKC, Kansas University, SFASU, and OCU, and he is a frequent judge for the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.