George Robarts is the winner of the 2025 Lotte Lenya Competition, the Kurt Weill Foundation’s premier award for opera and musical theatre in the USA. Judges described him as a “phenomenal actor” with “impeccable delivery”. Opera highlights include Count Almaviva & Leporello (Cumbria Opera), cover Baron La traviata (Grange Festival), cover Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garsington), Junius The Rape of Lucretia (BYO), and Drunken Poet / Bottom The Fairy Queen (Longborough). In recital, George debuted alongside Graham Johnson at the Leeds Song Festival in 2023, performing Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. In 2025 he has given recitals at Oxford Song, with a programme of folk music from the British Isles, and at St Martin-in-the-Fields, devising a semi-staged performance of Roxanna Panufnik’s cycle Private Joe with the Kyan Quartet. He was among the prizewinners at the 58th International Vocal Competition in the Netherlands, for a programme combining art song and popular light music. An accomplished linguist and professional translator, George’s debut opera translation The Revolting Maid (from Pergolesi’s La serva padrona) was premiered in 2025 thanks to generous funding from the City Music Foundation. Described by Felicity Lott as “laugh-out-loud funny”, his new libretto won the 2024 John Dryden Prize.