 On this and other recent showings, Auty is surely the finest lyric tenor in the Italian repertoire the UK has produced since the young Dennis O'Neill".In 2018 he sang the "exhausting" title role in the stage premiere (and UK premiere) of Konstantin Boyarsky's "Pushkin" at Grange Park Opera.As the only non-Russian in the cast "Auty coped heroically with Boyarsky’s demanding vocal lines, and emphasized Pushkin’s ardour and naivety, nonchalantly delivering the many quotes (in Russian) that pepper the libretto.