 At the Teatro alla Scala, the baritone appeared in "Arabella" (1992), "Elektra" (directed by Luca Ronconi, 1994), "La fanciulla del West" (1995), "Die Frau ohne Schatten" (in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's production, 1999), and "Salome" (2002).He made his Bayreuth Festival debut in 1998, in the title role in "Der fliegende Holländer" and repeated the role in 1999.At Bayreuth in 2000, he portrayed Wotan in "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walküre" and The Wanderer in "Siegfried"; and repeated all three roles in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004.