He also performed as Rocco in Beethoven's Fidelio, as Kaspar in Weber's Der Freischütz, as Hunding in Wagner's Die Walküre, as Basilio in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia and as Escamillo in Bizet's Carmen, among others.

[1] He took part in the world premieres of Paul Dessau's Lanzelot in 1969,[1][2] of Alan Bush's Joe Hill in 1970,[1][3] and of Ernst Hermann Meyer's Reiter in der Nacht in 1973.

He sang at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, at the Paris Opera, at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, in Brussels, Vienna, at La Scala in Milan, in Venice, Stockholm, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Budapest, Cairo, Nice, and at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.

[4] In Lausanne, he appeared in 1983 as Hans Sachs in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and as Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier.

[4] Vogel was also regarded as an outstanding concert and oratorio singer, especially in music by Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel.