Premieres.
La Bohème, Santa Fe Opera, With Joanna Bruno
World Premieres
Hand of Bridge, Samuel Barber (Bill, the lawyer) - Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy, 1959, Conductor Robert Feist
The Poet and the Muse, Giancarlo Menotti (The Muse) - Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy, 1959, Conductor Robert Feist
Revelation, Earl Wild (John of Patmos) - ABC Television Network, NYC, 1962, Conductor Earl Wild
Athalia, Hugo Weisgal (Mattan) - Avery Fisher Hall, NYC, 1963, Conductor Thomas Scherman
Angle of Repose, Andrew Imbrie (Frank Sargent) - San Francisco Opera, 1976
Riccardo Terzo, Flavio Testi (Riccardo) - Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 1987, Conductor Roberto Abbado
Blimunda, Ezio Corghi (Balthasar) - Teatro alla Scala, Milano, 1990, Conductor Zoltan Pesko
Agamemnon, Wim Laman (Aegisteus) - Conzertgebow, Amsterdam 1997, Conductor Ed Spanjaard
Bandanna, Daron Hagen (Miguel) - University of Texas 1999, Conductor Michael Haithcock
New York and American Premieres
Lamentations of Jeremiah, Stravinsky (First Tenor) - Town Hall, 1959, Conductor Robert Craft
Die Frau ohne Schatten, Strauss (Der Kaiser) - Avery Fisher Hall, 1964, Conductor Thomas Sherman
Antigone, Orff (Heamon) - Avery Fisher Hall, 1967, Conductor Thomas Sherman
Prometheus, Orff (Hermes) - Avery Fisher Hall, 1968, Conductor Thomas Sherman
Jenufa, Janacek (Stewa) - Metropolitan Opera, 1974, Conductor John Nelson
Lulu, Berg (Alwa) - Metropolitan Opera, 1977, Conductor James Levine
Lear, Reimann (Duke of Kent) - San Francisco Opera, 1981, Conductor Gerd Albrecht
Lady Macbeth of Msensk, Shostakovich (Sergei) - San Francisco Opera, 1981, Conductor Calvin Simpson
Der Prinz von Homburg, von Henze (Der Kürfürsten) - Spoleto USA Charleston, 1995, Conductor Emmanuel Villaume
La Chute de la Maison Usher, Claude Debussy (Le Médecin) - University of Texas 2006, Conductor David Neely