Hamlet, Liceu Barcelona, Opéra Marseilles, La Monnaie, Brussels; Don Giovanni, Bolshoï Moscow, Athens, Geneva, Montpellier; Escamillo, Carmen, NYC Opera, L.A. Opera, Finnish National Opera, Opéra Toulon, Miami, Bremen; “Four Villains” Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Golaud, Pelléas et Mélisande, Netherlands; Michele, Il Tabarro, Ezio Attila, Seid Il Corsaro, title role in Il Prigioniero, Opera Festival of Chicago; Paolo, Simon Boccanegra, Geneva; Germont La Traviata, Grant Park Music Festival; Ford, Falstaff, Santa Fe Opera, Canadian Opera; Count di Luna, Il Trovatore, Austin Lyric; Gianni Schicchi Florida Grand Opera, Jack Rance, La Fanciulla del West, KYO & Washington Opera Soc.; Zurga, Les pêcheurs de perles, Zürich; Marcello, La Boheme, Lausanne,Vichy; Hérode, Hérodiade, Dorset Opera; Count Dominick Arabella and Schaunard La Boheme, Metropolitan Opera; Eugene Onégin, Florida Grand and Spoleto Festival; Nick Shadow, Rake’s Progress, Frank/Fritz Die tote Stadt, Teatro Massimo, Palermo; Guglielmo Cosi fan tutte and Belcore L’elisir d’amore, Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg; At the Lyric Opera of Chicago he was heard as Ping Turandot, Mercutio, Roméo et Juliette and Malatesta, Don Pasquale. Franco created a sensation as Pentheus in The Bassarids by Henze at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and has returned in the title roles of Nixon, Nixon in China and Sweeney Todd. Prospero The Tempest Hungarian State Opera Budapest, Carbon in Cyrano Teatro Real Madrid. In concert: Carnegie Hall debut, baritone soloist in Mahler’s 8th Symphony with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Soloist with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, L’Orchestre Radio France, Grant Park Symphony, Qatar Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Musiciens du Louvre. Franco received a full fellowship to the Juilliard Opera Center and was awarded the DeRosa Prize for achievement. Franco’s recording Death is the Cool Night, H. Heine lieder of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms was the HPR International Art Song Winner.