In 1993, he debuted in the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in Il trovatore, returning later in Aida and Madama Butterfly.
He has also performed in the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in the Opéra de Paris, and in San Francisco Opera.
He performed Madama Butterfly in La Scala, in the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and in the New National Theatre Tokyo.
[citation needed] He worked with Zubin Mehta in a five-act version of Don Carlo in Munich and Florence.
[1] In 2012, he appeared in the Woody Allen film To Rome with Love as a man with fantastic operatic voice, but only while in the shower.