Bass-baritone Peter Strummer has died at 76.

Praised for his “warm, firm, agile” voice, Strummer had an international career where he sang over 120 major roles, including eight world premieres.

For 15 years, the bass-baritone performed in German and Austrian opera houses, where, in addition to opera roles, he sang many performances of German and Viennese operetta. He also spent three years as part of a special ensemble at Minnesota Opera.

His career took him to many of the leading opera houses including the Metropolitan Opera, where he sang five performances in “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” and “Billy Budd,” the San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Canadian Opera Company, Teatro del la Zarzuela, L’Opéra du Montréal, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New Orleans Opera, and San Diego Opera.

His signature roles included Leporello in “Don Giovanni,” Don Alfonso in “Cosí fan tutte,” Don Magnifico in “La Cenerentola,” the title role in “Don Pasquale,” Fra Melitone in “La forza del destino,” Bartolo in both “The Barber of Seville” and “Le nozze di Figaro,” and Dulcamara in “L’elisir d’amore.”

Throughout his career, he made numerous recordings including “La Bohème” with New York City Opera, Live From Lincoln Center, “La Forza del Destino,” “Tosca,” and “Ariadne auf Naxos.”

Outside of his career for opera, Strummer was a gourmet cook, an avid collector of historical recordings and opera films and he was the founder and Artistic Director of the three-year-old Rose Rock Opera Institute.