[1] A winner of the Lauritz Melchior Heldentenor Foundation Award, he debuted with the Metropolitan Opera as Vogelgesang in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, in 1968.
In 1975, he performed the title role of Wagner's Lohengrin at the New Orleans Opera, and, in 1977, sang in Janáček's Katya Kabanova at San Francisco, alongside Elisabeth Söderström, Chester Ludgin and Susanne Marsee.
For the Opera Company of Boston, the tenor appeared in Zimmermann's Die Soldaten as Desportes in 1982 and in Janáček's The Makropoulos Case in 1986, both conducted and directed by Sarah Caldwell.
[3] He appeared at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich as Laca, Svatopluk Cech in Janáček's The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century, the Elector in Henze's Der Prinz von Homburg, as Wagner's Siegfried, and Aegisth in Elektra by Richard Strauss.
[3] His roles also include operas such as Mozart's Idomeneo, Cherubini's Médée (with Anja Silja in the title role), Les Troyens by Berlioz, Meyerbeer's La juive, Verdi's Otello, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (as Grigori), Busoni's Doktor Faust, Shostakovitch's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress.