The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music has announced the winners of the twenty-seventh annual Lotte Lenya Competition, which took place Saturday 3 May 2025 at Kilbourn Hall in Rochester, New York. George Robarts took home the First Prize of $25,000.

Judges described Robarts’s first-place performance with enthusiastic phrases such as “phenomenal actor,” “every moment spontaneous,” and “impeccable delivery of lyrics.” Especially taken with his performance of Kurt Weill’s “Muschel von Margate,” they awarded it a rare near-perfect score.

With its focus on both acting and vocal skills, the Lenya Competition celebrates talented singing actors of all nationalities who can “do it all” across opera and musical theatre.