Born in Alaior, Menorca, he attended the Menorca Conservatory and later he studied at the Escuela de Música Reina Sofía with Alfredo Kraus.

His repertory includes the main bass-baritone roles of La Clemenza di Tito, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro, I Puritani, Norma, L’Elisir d’amore, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucrezia Borgia, La Favorita, Linda di Chamounix, Il barbiere di Siviglia, La Cenerentola, Semiramide, Il Viaggio a Reims, L’Italiana in Algeri, La Donna del Lago, Guglielmo Tell, La Bohème, Carmen, Don Carlo, etc.

Mr. Orfila appears regularly at the Teatro del Liceu of Barcelona and Teatro Real of Madrid, and has been invited to sing in Sevilla, Oviedo, Las Palmas, Minorca, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, La Coruña and Santander, and also in important theaters as both the Deutsche Oper and Staatsoper in Berlin, Opéra de la Bastille Paris, Scala di Milano, London Covent Garden, Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Pesaro Festival and the opera houses of Tokyo, Lima, Bogotá, Lisbon, Munich, Hamburg, Rome, Napoli, Florence, Genova, Torino, Bologna, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Toulon and Montpellier, among others.

Recent and future engagements include L’elisir d’amore in Palma de Mallorca, Samson et Dalila in Mérida, Ernani in Minorca, Novara and Pisa, Rigoletto at Sferisterio Macerata and Tenerife, Don Giovanni in La Coruña, Lucia in Oviedo, Norma in Pamplona, Nabucco in Palermo, María Moliner in Oviedo, Carmen at the Liceo and Aida at the Festival of Peralada, as well as several recitals and concerts.