Torlef A. Borsting, baritone, makes his West Bay Opera debut as Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades.

Mr. Borsting’s recent roles include Jack Rance (The Girl of the Golden West) with Berkeley Opera, a Soldier (The Maid of Orleans) with San Francisco Opera, and Streshnev (Khovanshchina). Other roles include Don Giovanni and Masetto (Don Giovanni), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Marcello (La bohème), Bob (Menotti, The Old Maid and the Thief), Moralès (Carmen), Marquis d’Obigny (La traviata), Bob Beckett (H.M.S. Pinafore), Major Theodore Barfield (Jorge Martín, Tobermory), Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and Peter (Hansel and Gretel). He will debut with North Bay Opera as Zaretsky (Eugene Onegin) and is returning to San Francisco Opera in the role of a Scythian (Iphigenie en Tauride) during 2007.

Mr. Borsting also maintains a busy oratorio schedule, performing with Symphony Parnassus, Oakland Civic Orchestra, Oakland Youth Orchestra, Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Morristown (NJ) Choral Society, Eugene Symphony, Oregon Bach Festival, and Kodály Summer Institute.