[2] He was first engaged at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in 1990, where leading roles included Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte and Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Wolfram in Wagner's Tannhäuser, and Albert in Massenet's Werther.
[2] He belonged to the ensemble of the Bonn Opera from 1994, where he appeared as Mozart's Don Giovanni, Silvio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, and the Count in Lortzing's Der Wildschütz.
[2] He was engaged by the Deutsche Oper am Rhein from 1996, and by the Cologne Opera from 1998, where he appeared as Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème and as Ford in Verdi's Falstaff.
[3] He then moved to the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, where he appeared as Alfonso in Così fan tutte, Amfortas in Wagner's Parsifal, and in the title roles of Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin and Alban Berg's Wozzeck, among others.
[2] At the Vienna State Opera, he appeared in the title role of Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, Count Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, and as Don Giovanni, Scarpia and Amfortas.