Appearances in opera include Colline/La bohème (ENO, Opéra de Nancy); Raimondo/Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Colorado, Denver and Russian National Orchestra, Moscow); Escamillo/Carmen (New Zealand Opera); Conte/ Le nozze di Figaro (Scottish Opera), Leporello/Don Giovanni, Conte/Le nozze di Figaro (Latvian National Opera, Teatru Manoel, Valletta, Malta); Lilaque le Fils/Boulevard Solitude (Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa and Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona); Collatinus/The Rape of Lucretia (St Petersburg and Riga); Reinmar/Tannhäuser (Barcelona); and Lorenzo/I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Moscow Philharmonic).
Opera appearances in UK include Nettuno/ Idomeneo and Armoured Man and Priest/Die zauberflote (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Nettuno/Idomeneo and Angelotti/Tosca (ENO); Don Fernando/Fidelio (Garsington); Dutchman/ The Flying Dutchman (OperaUpClose), Imperial Commissioner/Madama Butterfly and Ramfis/Aida (Royal Albert Hall); Flavio (Early Opera Company); Ariadne and La traviata (Birmingham Opera Company).
Pauls has an international concert career and has sung with orchestras including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Israel, Moscow and Bucharest Philharmonics and Russian National Orchestra ranging in a wide repertoire including all Bach Passions, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. His recordings include Ferrondo in Mercadante’s Maria Stuarda regina di Scozia, Ricardo in Meyerbeer’s Margherita D’Anjou (Opera Rara); Everyman in Walford Davies’ Everyman (Duton); as well as DVDs of Jonathan Miller’s production of La bohème at ENO (Warner Classics) and Lehnhoff’s production of Henze’s Boulevard Solitude at the Liceu, Barcelona (Euroarts).