This season Mr. Howard makes his Royal Opera House debut in Aida and also performs Don Carlos at Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Magic Flute at the Metropolitan Opera, and Approaching Ali with Opera Las Vegas. Highlights of the recent past include La bohème and Aida at Teatro Real, Simon Boccanegra at Opéra national de Bordeaux, Turandot, Don Giovanni, Tosca, and Fidelio at San Francisco Opera, Luisa Miller at English National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Show Boat, Don Giovanni and Philip Glass’ Appomattox at Washington National Opera.