He appeared as Don Pizarro in Beethoven's Fidelio, Kaspar in Weber's Der Freischütz, Jochanaan in Salome by Richard Strauss, Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, Amonasro in Verdi's Aida and the title role in his Rigoletto.
[1] He appeared there also as Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde in 1986, conducted by Daniel Barenboim,[5] as Telramund in Lohengrin, as Biterolf in Tannhäuser and as Klingsor in Parsifal.
[3] He appeared as Kaspar in Weber's Der Freischütz when the Semperoper was reopened on 13 February 1985, staged by Joachim Herz and conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild.
[3] Again as Alberich, he was filmed in the 1989 video broadcast of Der Ring des Nibelungen from the Metropolitan Opera, which won him international recognition.
[5] He had an unusual ability to maintain a relaxed legato line even when singing music with wide jumps in pitch and sudden changes in volume ("barks") such as the role of Alberich.