Torlef Borsting’s powerful baritone fuses with sensitivity, compassion, and lyricism to lend a musical and dramatic depth to characters such as Scarpia in Tosca, Germont in La Traviata, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, and Jack Rance in La Fanciulla del West.  His is a voice ideal for the commanding presence of Verdi, the emotional swell of Puccini, and the flexibility and movement of Donizetti.

 

Other leading roles in his repertoire include Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Prince Yeletsky in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, and Horace Tabor in The Ballad of Baby Doe, where his vocal prowess was lauded byEast Bay Times as having “appropriate gusto…[moving] convincingly from rowdy full-voice banter at the saloon with his pals to sotto voce crooning to Baby Doe.”

 

A native of Hawaii, Torlef has spent most of his time on the West Coast, performing leading and supporting roles with companies including San Francisco Opera, Opera Parallèlle, West Bay Opera, Sacramento Opera, Opera San Jose, Livermore Valley Opera, Opera San Luis Obispo, Berkeley Opera, and others. In concert, he has performed as a soloist with Pacific Chamber Symphony, Mendocino Music Festival, Oakland Symphony Chorus, Symphony Parnassus, and Oakland Civic Orchestra. He most recently made his New York City Opera debut in a new composition about the Stonewall uprising and looks forward to his Opera Orlando debut as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro

 

Torlef’s foray into classical singing happened almost by chance; a series of events and an assignment to watch Le nozze di Figaro saw him shift from being a low brass performer at the end of his undergraduate degree studies to being fully-committed toward becoming an opera singer.

 

In 2018, Torlef made a move across the country with his family to Florida, where he currently resides.
 

Matthew Laifer Artist Management Worldwide represents this artist globally.

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