British baritone George Robarts graduates this summer from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he studies with Robert Dean. In 2023, he appears as Leporello/Don Giovanni (Cumbria Opera Group); Claudio/Agrippina (Hampstead Garden Opera); cover Escamillo/ The Downfall of Don José (Longborough Playground Opera); and joins the Chorus for Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park) and Das Wunder der Heliane (Dutch Touring Opera). Previous roles include Aeneas/Dido and Aeneas (New Chamber Opera) and Figaro/Le nozze di Figaro (Consortium Novum).
Recital highlights include Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with Graham Johnson at Leeds Lieder festival, George Walker songs for BBC Radio 3 Total Immersion, Myaskovsky songs in a programme curated by Iain Burnside at Milton Court Concert Hall, and an eclectic performance of rediscovered music and poetry from the German Resistance 1933–45 at Oxford’s Levine Auditorium.
George is the winner of the Paul Hamburger Lieder Prize 2023, Audience Prize at the Guildhall Chartered Surveyors’ Prize 2022, and Second Prize & Best Individual Song Prize at the John Kerr Award for English Song 2022.
George previously studied German and Italian at Oxford University, graduating with first-class honours in 2017. He is a prizewinning translator, most recently of Diedrich Diederichsen’s Aesthetics of Pop Music, published by Polity in 2023.