Herman Theron has a lyric, spinto tenor voice which allows him the scope to sing many different roles with ease. From 2004 to 2006 he went to Switzerland at different times to work specifically with Nicolai Gedda and from 2007 he moved to Switzerland for a year from South Africa to work with Yves Senn in Neuchatel.

In that time he gained a lot of experience auditioning for theatres in Europe and ended his stay in Europe singing for the Theatre Le Chatelet in Paris, France, in the opera Padmavati, composed by Albert Roussel.

His next engagement in Europe will be to sing Alfredo, La Traviata by Verdi, February of 2009 in Switzerland for L'avant-scène Opéra.

Herman only started singing full time in 2004. In 1998 he sang the role of Ænias in the Purcell opera Dido and Ænias for Pretoria Technicon (Pretoria) and the International Singing Institute of San Francisco in Johannesburg. In 1998 he attended master classes in Monza, Italy with Piero Cappucilli and Prof Wally Salio in Torino, Italy after which he was invited to study at the La Nuova Arca Academia della Voce di Torino in 1999 – 2000. In 1999 he sang the tenor lead in Schubert's Mass in F Major in Italy with Paula Rivetti as conductor. In 2003 he sang for Salon Music in Pretoria, South Africa, in various opera and operetta concerts. He concluded the year singing Ernesto, Don Pasquale, by Donizetti, and Camille, Die Lustige Witwe, by Franz Lehar. In October of 2004 he sang Tamino, Die Zauberflöte, Mozart for the Voices for Hospice. He sang the Christmas Oratorio of Bach with the Bach Choir of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2006 he sang Tony, West Side Story, by Bernstein for L'avant-scène Opéra in Colombier, Switzerland.