He first performed much of his core repertoire with Theater Lübeck in Germany.  Notable among these were the title roles in Bluebeard’s Castle, Il Turco in Italia, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro, Der fliegende Höllander as well as Escamillo in Carmen, the four villains in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Dr. Schön in Lulu, Orest in Elektra and interestingly the seven antagonists in The Death in Venice of Britten. Lübeck being the home of the prolific writer Thomas Mann and whose birthplace museum is blocks away from the Stadttheater.  While residing in Europe he appeared at the renowned Choregies d’Orange Festival, Metz Opera, Grand Theatre de Tours, Opera d’Avignon, Athens Megaron Concert Hall, Polish National Opera, Bergen National Opera, as well as numerous regional opera houses and concert venues.

He maintained a principal guest artist relationship with Leipzig Oper and the Gewandhaus orchestra for several seasons. First as Mephistofeles in their fiery if not pyromanical production of Faust, a reprise of Friedrich in their acclaimed production of Das Liebesverbot and most recently the first fully staged performances since 1877 of Gounod’s later opera Cinq Mars in a new production to rave reviews.

After returning to the United States, he has appeared with several American and Canadian regional opera houses including Arizona Opera, Palm Beach Opera, New Orleans Opera, Utah Opera, Opera Tampa, Portland Opera, Edmonton Opera, Boston Baroque in roles ranging from his love for the antagonist; Mephistofeles Gounod and Boito, Nick Shadow, Pizarro, Scarpia and Klingsor to the less mischievious characters of Escamillo, Leporello, Schicchi, Bartolo, Jochanaan, Orest,  Bartolo, Don Alfonso and the Musiklehrer. He celebrated a notable debut with the Glimmerglass Opera in the North American premiere of Wagner’s seldom produced opera Das Liebesverbot.  

Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Beethoven have been the foundation of his successes in the concert and oratorio repertoire.  He has appeared with numerous orchestras and festivals throughout the world including the Hong Kong Philharmonic, The Jerusalem Symphony (uniquely with performances of Messiah and The Creation), Bergen Philharmonic, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival as well as with the Orchestre National de Lille in performances of Bizet’s Clovis et Clotilde in the role of Saint Remy in the Basilique de Saint Remy where the medieval saint is buried.

The list of esteemed conductors and stage directors with whom he has worked includes Plasson, Ozawa, Eschenbach, de Billy, Nagano, Weikert, Welser-Möst, de Waart, Rovaris, Casadesus, Soustrot, Coppola, Joel, Asagaroff, Pilavacchi, Carsen, Decker, Auvray, Capecchi, Davia, Major, Melano, Fassbänder and Uzan as well as many others.