He has been a professor of voice at the Hochschule für Musik Berlin and Zurich University of the Arts Born in 1955 in New Mexico, Weir sang in church choirs as a school boy, sometimes as a soloist.
He appeared there as Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, in the title role of Handel's Serse, as Lenski in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, and as Almaviva in Rossini's Barbiere.
[1] From 1985 to 1989, he was a member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where he added roles such as Belfiore in Mozart's La finta giardiniera and Veit in Lortzing's Undine to his repertoire.
[1][5][6] He lectured at U.S. universities and was an instructor at the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart from 1993 and a professor of voice at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".
[8] In 2000, he took part in a recording of Haydn's opera Armida, with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, alongside Cecilia Bartoli and Christoph Prégardien.