His repertoire includes the bel canto of Rossini (Mustafà in L'italiana in Algeri),[1] classic French opera (Sancho Panza in Don Quichotte),[2] and 20th-century works (Superintendent Budd in Albert Herring),[3] among others.
His sister is the actress Didi Conn. Bernstein subsequently joined the Los Angeles Opera's Resident Artist Program,[5] performing in several productions there from the late 90s to the early 2000s.
9 alongside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival in July 1998, followed by a performance of the Verdi Requiem at Carnegie Hall in May 1999.
At Dallas Opera in the 2001–02 season, he created the role of Laurent, the lover (and murder accomplice) of the title character in Thérèse Raquin by Tobias Picker.
Next, he created the role of determined prosecutor Orville Mason in Picker's An American Tragedy (based on the Theodore Dreiser novel), which had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in the 2006–07 season.