In the past decade, Vickers has appeared in China, Russia, France, England, Austria, Albania, Mexico, the South Pacific, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia—in opera, concert, recital, and in the recording studio—singing literature ranging from Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten to Verdi’s La traviata and Daniel Catán’s La hija de Rappaccini. With an expanding operatic repertory of nearly forty leading tenor roles, Vickers is a tenor of inexhaustible range and musical curiosity paired with a flexible instrument of considerable size and an array of timbrel colors. Surely one of his career highlights included preparing the roles of Britten’s Peter Grimes and Captain Vere in Billy Budd with the late Philip Langridge, one of the great interpreters of those roles. The Washington National Opera invited Vickers to cover Gennaro at the last minute for their 2008-2009 performances of Lucrezia Borgia opposite Renée Fleming, under the baton of Maestro Plácido Domingo, based on the success of his Opera Boston performances in 2006. For his Gennaro, Vickers was celebrated in the Boston Globe as “tall and swaggering, his singing sensitive and elegant… with a ringing tone!” Also, in 2008, the tenor portrayed the tragic Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette for Illinois Opera Theatre. The tenor was fortunate to return to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts for Illinois Opera Theatre’s performances of the revised version of Daniel Catán’s Spanish-language opera La hija de Rappaccini, with the conductor of its première Eduardo Diazmuñoz at the helm.