American Tenor Vocalist. He established a successful operatic career as a lyric tenor in the 1980s before shifting to the dramatic tenor repertory in 1995.

From 1984 to 1987, he was a member of the Zurich Opera. After that he performed regularly at leading opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Paris, Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires, and major houses of Moscow, Berlin, and elsewhere.