Born in Buenos Aires, he studied voice, piano, composition and pedagogy with Ida Terkiel, Catalina Hadis, Horacio Soutric and Mercedes Alicea (NY), before continuing his formal musical training by taking part in master classes with tenor Ernst Haefliger in 1987-88, and in the course given by the baritone Gerard Souzay in 1990.
He studied voice at the Instituto Superior del Teatro Colón, where he graduated in 1989. In 1990 he won the First Prize in the Bilbao International Singing Competition.
Torres enjoys a busy international career, with appearances at important Opera Houses such as the Teatro Colón, Teatro Argentino de la Plata, Opera Bastille, Theatre du Chatelet, Opera de Lyon, Opera de Nice, Opera du Rhin, Opera de Bordeaux, Opera de Nancy, Opera de Rouen, Opera de Laussane, Grand Theatre de Geneve, Theatre de La Monnaie, Landestheater of Salzburg, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Arriaga de Bilbao, Liceu de Barcelona, Palau de la Musica Catalana, Savonlinna Festival, Tokyo Opera City, Jerusalem State Concert Hall,Haifa Auditorium, Teatro Municipal de Santiago. He has performed together with conductors such as Rene Jacobs, Evelino Pido, Gabriel Garrido, Giovanni Antonini, Masaaki Suzuki, Michel Corboz, Antonio Pappano, Georges Pretre, Jordi Savall and William Christie. His repertoire includes the baritone roles from La Traviata, Don Carlos, Rigoletto, Falstaff, Simon Boccanegra, Manon, Werther, Adriana Lecouvreur, Madama Butterfly, La Boheme, Elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lamermoor, Don Pasquale, Cenerentola, Nozze di Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, L'Orfeo and Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria.
He features as Pasquale in the recent EuroArts DVD release of Haydn's Orlando Paladino, conducted by Rene Jacobs.
Equally renowned as a recitalist and concert singer, Torres recorded Ottavo Libro and Vespro della Beata Vergine by Monteverdi with R. Jacobs, L'Orfeo with Gabriel Garrido, Zeichen im Himmel by Erlebach with Stylus Phantasticus, Argentinean Songs with Jorge Ugartamendia, Canciones Argentinas with Fernando Pérez, Canciones de Guastavino with Dora Castro, Oda para Martín Fierro by Juan Navarro.