American tenor Joel Sorensen made his San Diego Opera debut as Curley in Of Mice and Men in 1999, returning as Camp Williams in Cold Sassy Tree in 2001, as Andres in Wozzeck in 2007, Rodriguez in Don Quixote in 2009 and Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet last season. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 2000 in Samson and Delilah, returning for Sly, Madama Butterfly, Der Rosenkavalier and War and Peace. With New York City Opera, he has given more than 200 performances since his 1994 debut there as Monostatos in The Magic Flute, returning in Madama Butterfly, Falstaff, Turandot, The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Igor, La rondine, The Seven Deadly Sins and Margaret Garner, among others. He recently made his Los Angeles Opera debut in Tosca, performed King Herod in Salome with the Florentine Opera, Pedrillo in Entführung aus dem Serail for Atlanta Opera, Mime in Siegfreid for Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, a role he also sang for his British debut at the Longborough Festival. Other companies with which he has sung include San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Portland Opera and Palm Beach Opera.