Subsequently, he moved to the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, where he studied under Peter Alexander Wilson alongside training with the British Youth Opera.
[9] At Covent Garden he played the Major-Domo to the Marschallin in the 2000 run of Der Rosenkavalier under Thielemann, Michelis in the 2000 run of The Greek Passion under Mackerras, Flavio in Norma, Maintop in Billy Budd and a Shepherd in Tristan und Isolde in 2000, Roderigo in Otello, Gastone in La traviata and Third Esquire in Parsifal in 2001, Malcolm in Macbeth in 2002, and Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor in 2003.
[10] Elsewhere in Britain he sang at Glyndebourne Festival Opera (Rodrigo in Verdi's Otello[11] and Nemorino in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore).
On this and other recent showings, Auty is surely the finest lyric tenor in the Italian repertoire the UK has produced since the young Dennis O'Neill".
As the only non-Russian in the cast, "Auty coped heroically with Boyarsky's demanding vocal lines, and emphasized Pushkin's ardour and naiveté, nonchalantly delivering the many quotes (in Russian) that pepper the libretto".