Victor Starsky

Tenor Victor Starsky, a native of Richmond Hill, New York, received critical

acclaim this year for his performance as Mario Cavaradossi in the Princeton Festival’s

production of Puccini’s Tosca, as well as his role debut as the title character in Verdi’s

Stiffelio with Sarasota Opera. Starsky’s 2024-2025 season also featured role and company

debuts as Maurizio in Adriana Lecouvreur with Pittsburgh Festival Opera; Nemorino in

L’Elisir D’Amore with Charlottesville Opera; and he performed the role of Jim Casy in

MasterVoice’s Carnegie Hall presentation of Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath.

Of his performance of Don José with Sarasota Opera in 2024, Your Observer writes,

“While possessing a voice that flexes with nuance, the genius of Starsky’s stage

performance is how he shares each tiny tear in his moral fabric as he follows and

succumbs to Carmen despite every effort to cling to what he knows is moral and right.

Watching his slow crumbling into unhinged desperation is unforgettable.” In the

upcoming 2025-2026 season, Starsky looks forward to several new role debuts, including

Enzo in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda with Pittsburgh Festival Opera, and Manrico in Il

Trovatore with Sarasota Opera. He also joins Wichita Symphony Orchestra as the tenor

soloist in the Verdi Requiem, among other engagements.

In 2023-2024, Starsky made his debuts as Radamés in Verdi’s Aïda and George Gibbs

in Rorem’s Our Town at Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater. He sang Roméo in

Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with New York City Opera and Rodolfo in La Bohème with

Wichita Grand Opera. Starsky was honored to perform The Celebrant in Leonard

Bernstein’s Mass with the premier conductor Maestro Maurice Peress in 2014. As a Adler

Fellow with San Francisco Opera in 2020 he was awarded the Shoshana Foundation’s

Richard F. Gold Career Grant.