THIS SEASON Belcore in L’Elisir d’Amore at Met, Don Alfonso in Lucrezia Borgia in Munich, Rodrigue in Don Carlos in Dresden, Escamillo in Carmen and Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Arena di Verona, Ezio in Attila in Hamburg, Figaro in Baden Baden, and his debut as Rigoletto at Athens’s Greek National Opera.

MET APPEARANCES Figaro (debut, 2005) and Riccardo in I Puritani.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Recent Performances include Montforte in I Vespri Siciliani and Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino in Genoa, Don Carlo in Ernani in Trieste, Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera and Germont in La Traviata in Munich, and his debut at Covent Garden as Marcello in La Bohème. He has also sung Figaro at La Scala, and in Vienna, Verona, Florence, and Lisbon; Germont at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Philadelphia Opera; Enrico in Lucia di Lammemoor in Vienna, Berlin, Naples, and Los Angeles; and Alfonse in La Favorite in Vienna.