Recently, Opera Today deemed Reed “a physical dynamo and a vocal delight” for his portrayal of Parson Alltalk in Joplin’s Treemonisha at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and the Boston Globe said he “sang with magnetic swagger as the fighter in his prime” as Young Emile in Terence Blanchard’s Champion with Boston Lyric Opera. His other recent successes have included performing the roles of Figaro in Virginia Opera’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Joey in The Time of Our Singing with Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland, Marcello in La Bohème with Opera Steamboat, and the roles of Count Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Leporello (Don Giovanni), John Sorel (The Consul), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Ruggiero (La Liberazione di Ruggiero), Count Pâris (Roméo et Juliette), Le Dancaïre (Carmen), and Kromov (The Merry Widow). In 2021 he sang in the premiere of Damien Sneed and Karen Chilton’s The Tongue & The Lash at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, where he portrayed “a credible James Baldwin and sang through his argument with power and finesse” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

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Reed’s recent concert appearances have included singing as a Vassal in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood; and as the bass soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with the Toledo Symphony, Carmina Burana with the Omaha Symphony, Handel’s Messiah with the Utah Symphony, Finding Christmas with Steamboat Symphony, and Bach's Magnificat and Margaret Bond's Ballad of the Brown King with the Cecilia Chorus of New York in his Carnegie Hall debut. He performed works by Shawn Okpebholo, including Songs in Flight and Two Black Churches with Arts DuPage and Wheaton College's Artist Series in Chicago; and premiered Nkeiru Okoye’s Black Bottom with the Detroit Symphony.