A “phenomenal actor” with “impeccable delivery of lyrics” (Kurt Weill Foundation), British baritone George Robarts is the winner of the 2025 Lotte Lenya Competition in New York.

Highlights in 2025-26 include a “side-splitting” turn (The Guardian) for English Touring Opera as hapless drummer boy Luiz in The Gondoliers, a debut at Buxton International Festival as Marchese La traviata and Pritschitsch The Merry Widow, recitals across the UK, and a return to Graham Johnson’s annual Schubert series at the Oxford International Song Festival.

A patter specialist with a “great penchant for comedy” (Opera Scene), George has appeared at Longborough Festival Opera, Garsington Opera, the Grange Festival, Opera Holland Park, West Green House, and the Edinburgh International Festival. He has performed Noël Coward in concert with Dame Felicity Lott, who described his work as “laugh-out-loud funny”.

In autumn 2026, his new English librettos of Orpheus & Eurydice and The Marriage of Figaro premiere for English Touring Opera and Oxford Opera respectively. He won the 2024 John Dryden Prize for his translation of Pergolesi’s La serva padrona.