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The Grand Tour - In the two years immediately following his Italian debut as Verdi's CORSARO, Ikaia-Purdy began his European career in earnest as a member of the Wiesbaden Opera, first as Alfredo (TRAVIATA), later adding DON CARLO, FAUST, LUISA MILLER, RIGOLETTO, EVANGELIMANN and CAVALLERIA. It was during this same period that he debuted as 
WERTHER in Hamburg, subsequently adding there BOHÈME, CAPULETTI (opposite Agnes Baltsa), ROSENKAVALIER and WEST SIDE STORY. 
Dresden (JÉRUSALEM and ROSENKAVALIER); Shanghai (DON CARLO); Ludwigsburg Festival (BALLO, STIFFELIO, LUISA MILLER, DUE FOSCARI, CORSARO, ATTILA, NABUCCO, DAMNATION de FAUST and the Verdi REQUIEM); Salzburg (DON CARLO); Bonn (TOSCA and TRAVIATA); Stuttgart (WERTHER, RIGOLETTO and ATTILA); Dusseldorf (BOHÈME, RIGOLETTO, LUCIA and CARLO); Liege (LUISA MILLER and LUCIA); Reims (LUCIA); Prague (VESPRI, ELISIR); Cologne (BOHÈME), Trieste (DON CARLO), Normandy (BALLO); Mannheim (CARMEN); St. Gallen (TOSCA, TRAVIATA and ATTILA); Pretoria (HOFFMANN); Timisoara (TOSCA and RIGOLETTO); Athens Festival (RIGOLETTO) Savonlinna Festival (RIGOLETTO); Solothurm Festival (DON CARLO); and the Torre del Lago Puccini Festival (BOHÈME). And following his 1999 engagement by the Metropolitan Opera as cover for Thomas Hampson in WERTHER, he was invited this make his house debut in 2000 as HOFFMANN.
Orchestra in Beethoven's IX SYMPHONY. The tenor has further appeared with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Frankfurt Symphony, South West German Radio Orchestra, the Hungarian Philharmonic, the Minneapolis Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Johann-Strauss Orchestra (Wiesbaden); as well as with the Opera Orchestra of Sofia for a televised concert featuring "Stars of the Vienna State Opera." Further operatic concerts with artists such as Eve Queler, Fabio Luisi, Eliane Coelho, Lucia Aliberti, Miriam Gauci, Barbara Daniels, Ildiko Raimondi, Dilber, Alan Titus, Dmitri Hvorostovsky Sergei Leiferkus, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Hao-Jiang Tian, Martile Rowland, Franz Grundheber and the Vienna Choir Boys have also ensured his growing popularity. And, he now devotes an increasing portion of his performing schedule to recital, specializing in the French "melodie" and Italian art song literature of the "bel canto" period.