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He has since performed <em>Aida<\/em>, <em>Cavalleria rusticana<\/em>, <em>Carmen<\/em>, <em>Tosca<\/em>, <em>Turandot<\/em>, <em>Andrea Ch\u00e9nier<\/em>, <em>Otello<\/em>, <em>Il trovatore<\/em>, <em>Jerusalem<\/em>, <em>La vida breve<\/em> and many others at La Scala, Arena di Verona, Teatro San Carlo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Vienna Staatsoper, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, New National Theatre Tokyo, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has worked with conductors such as Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta, with whom he starred in a celebrated <em>Turandot<\/em> in 2012. 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