His stellar career has spanned thirty-eight years with opera houses and orchestra at home and abroad. Last season he sang the High Priest in Samson et Delila with the San Francisco Opera. In the same season he was heard as Tonio in I Pagliacci for Utah Opera and Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore for The Netherlands Opera. The current season includes performances of Germont in La Traviata with Indianapolis Opera and Count di Luna in Un Ballo in Maschera with Canadian Opera.

Mr. Noble made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1988 as Shaklovity in Khovanshchina. Some of his many roles at the Met have been Michele in Il Tabarro, Albert in Werther, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, Amonsara in Aïda, Leporello in Don Giovanni, Marcello in La Boheme, Iago in Otello, and the role of Christopher Columbus in the world premiere of The Voyage by Philip Glass.

Mr. Noble performs regularly with the opera companies of San Francisco and Dallas as well as the Santa Fe Opera, where he recently appeared as Scarpia in Tosca and Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West. Perhaps his signature role is that of Falstaff, which he has performed in over 100 productions around the world.

Mr. Noble stars as Professor Howard Hill in the recent Telarc recording of The Music Man and as Ben in Marc Bitzstein's Regina on Decca Records. He also recently released a recording of the songs of Cole Porter.

He is Professor of Voice at his alma mater, the Indiana University School of Music.

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