Notable career highlights have included Sarastro/Die Zauberflote at the Wiener Staatsoper, Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Dutch National Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and for the Royal Opera; Claggart at the Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne Festivals, the Royal Opera, BBC Proms, the Teatro Real in Madrid and in New York at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Pimen/Boris Godunov for the Opernhaus Zurich; Ochs/Der Rosenkavalier, Arkel/Pelléas et Mélisande and Rocco/Fidelio at the Glyndebourne Festival; Arkel for the Oper Frankfurt and the Opernhaus Zurich; Fafner in the Ring cycle and Sparafucile/Rigoletto at Covent Garden; Bottom/A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Festival d’Aixen-Provence; Doktor/Wozzeck at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Geronte di Revoir/Manon Lescaut for the Metropolitan Opera; Ochs and Pogner/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg for the Welsh National Opera; Filippo/Don Carlo for Opera North and Pimen and Fiesco/Simon Boccanegra at the English National Opera.
In concert performances, he has sung Marke/Tristan und Isolde (Swedish Radio Orchestra/Daniel Harding and Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España/David Afkham), Fafner/Siegfried (London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski) and Hunding/Die Walküre (BBC Philharmonic/Omer Meir Wellber and Toronto Symphony Orchestra/Sir Andrew Davis).
Future highlights include Hunding/The Valkyrie for English National Opera and Gurnemanz/Parsifal for Opera North.