Opera
Bottom/Drunken Poet
The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Longborough Festival Opera
2023
Leporello
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
Cumbria Opera Group
2023
Claudio
Agrippina (Handel)
Hampstead Garden Opera
2023
Chorus
Rigoletto (Verdi)
Opera Holland Park
2023
Chorus
Das Wunder der Heliane (Korngold)
Nederlandse Reisopera
2023
Escamillo
Carmen (for schools) (Bizet)
Longborough Playground Opera
2023
Malatesta
Don Pasquale (Donizetti)
GSMD
2023
Macheath
Die Dreigroschenoper (Weill)
GSMD
2023
Escamillo
Carmen (adapted for schools) (Bizet)
Longborough Playground Opera
2022
Chorus
L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti)
West Green House Opera
2022
Chorus
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
La Nuova Musica / BBC Proms
2022
Ulisse
Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi)
Guildhall Vocal
2022
Ariodate
Serse (Handel)
Guildhall Vocal
2022
Tantale
Orphée descendant aux enfers (Charpentier)
Guildhall Opera
2021
Chorus
Cendrillon (Viardot)
Guildhall Opera
2021
Count Almaviva
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Guildhall Vocal
2021
Svegliato/Notaro
Il barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello)
New Chamber Opera
2017
Chorus
Judicium Salomonis (Carissimi)
Guildhall Opera
2021
Figaro
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
Consortium Novum
2017
Chorus
Eintänzer (Aaron O'Grady)
Guildhall Opera
2021
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni (Mozart)
New Chamber Opera
2015
Chorus
Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
West Green House Opera
2017
Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
New Chamber Opera
2016
Orfeo
L'Orfeo (Monteverdi)
Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini
2016
Pimpinone
Pimpinone (Albinoni)
New Chamber Opera
2014
Contemporary Opera
Hunter
Helena (Marco Galvani)
Tête à Tête Opera
2021
Musical Theatre
Soloist
The American Songbook (with GSMD Jazz Orchestra)
Milton Court, London
2022
Art Song
Recital with Graham Johnson
Die schöne Müllerin (Schubert)
Leeds Lieder Festival
2023
George Walker Songs
BBC Total Immersion series (George Walker)
Milton Court, London / BBC Radio 3
2022
Eisler, Weill, Ullmann & others
Songs of the German Resistance 1933-45 (Various)
Levine Auditorium, Oxford
2022
Wolf & Schubert
Guildhall Song Guild: Das Lied im Grünen (Various)
Milton Court, London, directed by Graham Johnson
2023
Myaskovsky & Kuzmin
Russian Song 1910-30 (Various)
Milton Court, London, directed by Iain Burnside
2023
Butterworth, Schubert, Britten & Muriel Herbert
Six Songs from a Shropshire Lad (Butterworth)
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
2021
Group Recital
Die schöne Müllerin (Schubert)
Milton Court, London, directed by Roderick William
2021
Group Recital
'Creative Minds in Song' New Music Project (Song in the City)
St Marylebone Festival
2021
Recital
Songs for Ariel (Tippett)
Milton Court, London
2021
Recital
Dichterliebe (Schumann)
New College, Oxford
2019
Recital
Songs of Travel (Vaughan Williams)
St Mary's Church, Furneux Pelham
2019
Recital
An die ferne Geliebte (Beethoven)
St Mary's Church, Battersea
2019
Recital
Chansons de Don Quichotte (Ibert)
St Mary's Church, Battersea
2019
Recital
If I Touched the Earth (Cecilia McDowall)
St Mary's Church, Battersea
2019
Chorus
Oratorio/Concerts
Pilatus & Arias
Johannes-Passion (Bach)
St. Bartholomew's, New York
2017
Baritone Soloist
Psalm 100, Jauchzet dem Herrn (Telemann)
Oxford Bach Soloists
2017
Baritone Soloist
Requiem (Fauré)
Basilica di Santo Spirito, Florence
2016
Narrator
A Child of Our Time (Tippett)
Oxford University Chorus
2015
Baritone Soloist
Cantata 158, Der Friede sei mit dir (Bach)
Oxford Bach Soloists
2018
Baritone Soloist
Serenade to Music (Vaughan Williams)
newChoir, Oxford
2018
Pilatus & Arias
Johannes-Passion (Bach)
Oxford Bach Soloists
2018
Bass Soloist
Come, Ye Sons of Art (Purcell)
Oxford University Chorus
2018
Bass Soloist
The Crucifixion (Stainer)
City Church, Milton Keynes
2019
Bass Soloist
Nelson Mass (Haydn)
St Andrew's Church, Bedford
2019
Baritone Soloist
Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams)
St Pancras Church, Kettering
2020
Discography
Bass Soloist and Chorus
Parry: Songs of Farewell (Hubert Parry)
Choir of New College, Oxford
2018
Baritone Soloist, Chorus
Like as the Hart (Various)
Choir of New College, Oxford
2017
Baritone Soloist, Chorus
Symphony Anthems (John Blow)
Choir of New College, Oxford
2015
Covered
Covered & Performed
Scenes
Premiere of New Work
Concert
COVID-cancelled
Aeneas, copyright Romain Reglade
Cendrillon, copyright Helen Murray
Figaro, copyright Romain Reglade
Figaro, copyright Romain Reglade
Competitions
Winner – Paul Hamburger Lieder Prize (2023)
Audience Prize – GSMD Chartered Surveyors' Prize (2022)
Best Individual Song Prize – John Kerr Award for English Song (2022)
Second Prize – John Kerr Award for English Song (2022)
Third Prize – Patricia Routledge National English Song Competition (2021)
Finalist – Courtney Kenny Award for English Song & Poetry (2018)
'George Robarts deserves praise for his lanky, delightful Bottom' – Opera Scene (2023)
Masters (Vocal Performance, Distinction)
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
2020–2023
Renaissance and Baroque Singing (Erasmus)
Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini
2016
Bachelor of Arts (German and Italian, First Class)
New College, University of Oxford
2013–2017
British baritone George Robarts has made a number of acclaimed debuts this year at opera and song festivals across the UK. A versatile singer-actor, he starred in Longborough Festival Opera’s new hybrid adaptation of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (★★★★★ The Stage, Plays to See), multi-rolling between Bottom in the original Shakespeare and the sung part of the Drunken Poet. He joined Graham Johnson OBE at Leeds Lieder Festival in June, performing Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin at the Howard Assembly Room. On the opera stage, he also appeared as Leporello in Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Cumbria Opera Group), Chorus in Verdi’s Rigoletto (Opera Holland Park) and Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane (Dutch Touring Opera), Claudio in Handel’s Agrippina (Hampstead Garden Opera), and Escamillo in an adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen for children (Longborough Playground Opera).
Solo concert appearances include Bach’s St John Passion in New York and Fauré’s Requiem in Florence. Recent recitals include George Walker songs for BBC Radio 3 Total Immersion, song cycles by Butterworth, Vaughan Williams, Schumann, Ravel, Beethoven and Tippett, and an eclectic evening of songs and poetry from the German Resistance at Oxford’s Levine Auditorium./
George graduated with Distinction from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, where he studied on the postgraduate programme under Robert Dean. He is also a prize-winning translator, having previously read Modern Languages at Oxford University, graduating with First-Class Honours in 2017. He is a Longborough Festival Opera Emerging Artist, and is the winner of the Paul Hamburger Lieder Prize 2023.
www.georgerobarts.com
