George Robarts
Baritone
Baritone George Robarts made his song festival debut in 2023 alongside Graham Johnson OBE, singing Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin at Leeds Lieder in a lecture recital for the cycle’s 200th anniversary.
He has given recitals at Milton Court Concert Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Oxford’s Levine Auditorium, and at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire for Ludlow Song. As a concert soloist, he has appeared at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Mayfield Festival, St John’s Smith Square, Florence’s Basilica di Santo Spirito, and St Bartholomew’s Manhattan.
George is a City Music Foundation Artist, a Garsington Opera Alvarez Young Artist, and a Longborough Festival Opera Emerging Artist. A versatile performer with a ‘great penchant for comedy’ (Opera Scene), he is especially at home in English operatic repertoire, with roles including Drunken Poet The Fairy Queen for Longborough Festival Opera, cover Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Garsington Opera, Junius The Rape of Lucretia for British Youth Opera, and Noye Noye’s Fludde at St Edmundsbury Cathedral. He has also appeared with Nederlandse Reisopera, Opera Holland Park, New Chamber Opera, Cumbria Opera Group, West Green House Opera, and Hampstead Garden Opera.
George graduated with distinction from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama postgraduate programme, where he studied under Robert Dean and was the winner of the 2023 Paul Hamburger Prize. He previously graduated with first-class honours in German and Italian from Oxford University, where he was an Academical Clerk in the New College Choir under Edward Higginbottom and Robert Quinney. Alongside his performing career, he is a prizewinning translator with several musical publications to his name. His debut libretto translation of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona (“The Revolting Maid”) is due to be premiered in 2024–25, generously funded by the City Music Foundation.
