BIRTHPLACE Leppävirta, Finland

THIS SEASON Števa in Jenùfa at the Met and Lenski in Eugene Onegin and Puntarpää in The Red Line with the Helsinki Opera.

PREVIOUS MET APPEARANCES Boris in Ká�a Kabanová (debut, 2004).

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS Has been heard in recent seasons as Adolar in Weber’s Euryanthe in Amsterdam and Strasbourg, Loge in Das Rheingold at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, Erik in Der Fliegende Holländer at Berlin’s Deutsche Staatsoper, Edmund in the world premiere of Sallinen’s King Lear and the title role of Peter Grimes in Helsinki, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Toulouse, and Laca in Jenùfa at Covent Garden, the Vienna State Opera and in Toulouse. Also sang Erik and Loge at the Bayreuth Festival, Erik at the Hamburg State Opera, Max in Der Freischütz at the New Israeli Opera and Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, the title roles of Idomeneo and Parsifal in Brussels, and Jeník in The Bartered Bride at Covent Garden.