Born in the United States, he has appeared in many of the world’s leading opera houses.
His roles include Laca/Jenufa (GFO); Mephistopheles/Doktor Faustus (the Met); Bacchus/Ariadne auf Naxos (ROH); Herman/The Queen of Spades (Hamburg); the title role in Peter Grimes, Sergei/Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Prince/Rusalka (ENO); Dimitri/Boris Godunov, Pierre Bezukhov/War and Peace, Golitsyn/Khovanshchina, Dwarf/Der Zwerg (Opéra National de Paris); Eine florentinische Tragödie, Herod/Salome, Golitsyn (La Scala); Golitsyn (Liceu); Der König Kandaules, Die Gezeichneten (Salzburg Festival); Boris/Kát’a Kabanová (Vienna); Salome (Liceu); Die Frau ohne Schatten (Berlin Deutsches Oper).