He appeared in concert, oratorio and opera in various countries. He toured in Russia (Moscow and St Petersburg) in 1873, where he made a great success in "Israel in Egypt" and as Pietro in Auber's opera "Masaniello". In Mapleson's first American tour in the autumn of 1878 he was in company with Etelka Gerster, Minnie Hauk, Zélia Trebelli, Italo Campanini and many others, and appeared in a particularly notable "I Puritani" with Gerster and Campanini at Chicago. He returned several times to America, was also heard in Vienna, and in the 1890s he toured in Australia and New Zealand, and in Canada. In addition to stage performance, through the 1870s Foli appeared regularly with leading singers in the Grand Operatic Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. In 1877, with Santley, Nilsson and Ciro Pinsuti, assisted by Arthur Chappell, he gave a benefit concert which raised £1500 towards an annuity for their colleague Mario, who was then living in Rome in straitened circumstances. He was among the contributors at the Retirement Concert of Sims Reeves at the Royal Albert Hall on 11 May 1891, and sang in two concerts in the first Promenade season (1895), including the final concert, the benefit for Robert Newman.