Since making his débuts at Teatro la Fenice, Venice and the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma in 1981 in Castiglioni's "Oberon", he has appeared at many of the major Opera Houses of the world.

He has sung at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, under the baton of Sir Colin Davis, at both the Opéras de Paris, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, the Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam, the Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, with Trevor Pinnock, the Bunkamura Theatre, Tokyo, with Marc Minkowski, the Opéra de Lyon, with René Jacobs, the opera of Sao Paolo, Brazil, and
numerous other theatres around Europe.

In Britain, he has worked with Scottish Opera (e.g. Colline (La Bohème), Theaterdirektor (Capriccio), Don Fernando (Fidelio), Sprecher (Die Zauberflöte)), Opera North (e.g. Snug (Midsummer Night's Dream), Varlaam (Boris Godunov)), English National Opera (e.g. Monterone (Rigoletto), Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Banquo (Macbeth), Pogner (Die Meistersinger von Nurenberg), Grand Inquisitor (Don Carlos)), and made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 2004 in "Les Contes d'Hoffmann".

Roles include Wotan (Longborough Festival Opera) Pogner (ENO), Arkel (Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg), Banquo (ENO), Geronte di Ravoir (Grand Théâtre de Genève and Opéra de Nancy), Le Spectre d'Hector in "Les Troyens" (Teatro alla Scala, Milan and Barbican Hall, London), Fafner (CBTO and The Limerick Ring), Sarastro (Opéra de Nantes), Swallow (Opéra de Nantes), Parson in "The Cunning Little Vixen" (Bregenz Festival), Priam in "Les Troyens" (Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam), Peachum (Opéras de Caen and Rouen), Silvano in "La Calisto" (Opéras de Lyon and Montpellier), Araspe in Handel's "Tolomeo" (Opernhaus Halle and Opernhaus Dessau), Pistola (Opéras de Nancy, Caen and Lausanne), Der Tod in "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" (Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, theatres in Liege, Antwerp, Sarajevo and Lisbon, and Mecklenburg Opera), Die Mutter in "Die Sieben Todsünden" (Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Oslo and the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam), El Tio Salvaor in "La Vida Breve" (Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels) and Mozart's Bartolo (Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Bermuda Festival and Tokyo).

Recent performances include Hobson in "Peter Grimes" (Theatre de la Monnaie and Bilbao), Geronte di Ravoir (Opera North), le Poete in "Orphee" (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), and multiple roles in "The Nose" (Shostakovich)(Opera de Nantes/Angers).