Romanian baritone Sebastian Catana made his début at the Metropolitan Opera in 2003 singing Schaunard in La bohème under Daniel Oren, followed by his European début in 2007 as Paolo in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

Career highlights include Il trovatore in Valencia under Zubin Mehta, Luisa Miller in Turin and Lyon, Macbeth in Munich, Attila at the Parma Verdi Festival, Nabucco in Bologna, Philadelphia, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, La traviata in Berlin and Lausanne, I due Foscari in Trieste and Toulouse as well as Il corsaro and Ernani at the Klangvokal Musikfestival in Dortmund.