George Robarts & Friends
George Robarts baritone
Anna Michels piano
Neil Sutcliffe accordion
“Phenomenal actor… every moment spontaneous… impeccable delivery of lyrics” Kurt Weill Foundation.
In 2025, George Robarts won First Prize at the Lotte Lenya Competition in the USA, awarded by the Kurt Weill Foundation. With a gift for rapid-fire text and a “great penchant for comedy” (Opera Scene), he has performed cabaret in recital alongside Dame Felicity Lott, who described his work as “laugh-out-loud funny”.
Recent stage highlights include a “side-splitting” turn (The Guardian) as Luiz in The Gondoliers with English Touring Opera, a singer-actor starring role as the Drunken Poet and Bottom in The Fairy Queen at Longborough, and principal and cover roles at Garsington, Buxton, the Grange Festival, British Youth Opera, and the Edinburgh International Festival.
An award-winning translator and librettist, in 2026 George translated Gluck’s Orpheus & Eurydice for English Touring Opera and The Marriage of Figaro for Oxford Opera. He won the 2024 John Dryden Prize for The Revolting Maid (translated from Pergolesi’s La serva padrona).
A fluent German and Italian speaker, George is a graduate of Oxford University with a First in Modern Languages, and of the Guildhall Postgraduate programme with Distinction.
Programme
George will be joined by some of his musical friends to present a cabaret-style performance of songs from 1920s Berlin, performed in English.
Sponsored by an anonymous donor
Venue: The Bridgewater Hall
Box Office
Tickets can be purchased in advance and on the day of the concert from the Bridgewater Hall Box Office:
The Bridgewater Hall
Manchester
M2 3WS
Tel: 0161 907 9000
Mon – Fri 10am – 5pm (8pm on concert nights – in person only)
Sat – Sun 2pm – 5pm (concert nights only)