Bass-baritone Nicholas Borg has been praised as “an engaging visual and vocal actor” (Opera Canada) with a “warm, sonorous baritone” (Stage Door Toronto).  

In opera, Nicholas has performed Dandini in La Cenerentola for Manitoba Opera, and Alexander Graham Bell in Dean Burry and Lorna MacDonald’s The Bells of Baddeck, as well as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Marchese in La traviata for Brott Opera. In 2019–2020, Nicholas was a member of the Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program at Vancouver Opera, where he performed the roles of Barone Douphol and covered Germont in La traviata, as well as Fiorello in The Barber of Seville.

He received the Kurt Sickert Award from the Vancouver Opera Foundation in 2021. In 2020, Nicholas was a member of  Manitoba Opera’s inaugural Digital Emerging Artists Program. On the concert stage, Nicholas performed as the bass soloist in Messiah for Masterworks of Oakville and RESOUND Choir, and the baritone soloist in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs for RESOUND Choir.

Nicholas has been a chorus member of the Canadian Opera Company and a soloist for the Toronto Operetta Theatre, Voicebox: Opera in Concert, MYOpera, the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Toronto, the Grand Philharmonic Choir, and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. He is a graduate of UofT Opera and McGill University.  

Nicholas brings his extensive performing experience and community-minded arts creation to his practice as an arts administrator. He is the Administrative Director of Toronto City Opera and was previously the Managing Director of the Amadeus Choir of Greater Toronto, as well as the Administrative Assistant at the University of Toronto Opera.