Ross Ramgobin

British baritone Ross Ramgobin made his Royal Opera debut in the 2015/16 Season as Rambashi (The Firework Maker’s Daughter). He has also sung Miteb (Cities of Salt) for The Royal Opera. In the 2018/19 Season he sings First Mate (Billy Budd).

Ramgobin studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the National Opera Studio, where his studies were supported by the Royal Opera House, the Carr Gregory Trust and a Sybil Tutton Award. His opera appearances include the Protector (Written on Skin) with the Melos Sinfonia, Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for Israeli Opera, the title role of Owen Wingrave for the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh festivals, Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) for Verbier Festival, Pallante (Agrippina) and Arasse (Siroe, re di Persia) for the International Handel Festival, Göttingen, Pallante for Brisbane Baroque, Kuligin (Kát’a Kabanová) for Opera Holland Park, Masetto (Don Giovanni) for Angers Nantes Opéra, Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) and Archibald Grosvenor (Patience) for English Touring Opera, Schaunard (La bohème) for Dorset Opera Festival Eugene Onegin and Yuri (The Ice Break) for Birmingham Opera Company.

In concert, Ramgobin has sung in the Solti Centennial Concert with Valery Gergiev and the World Orchestra for Piece at Carnegie Hall and Chicago Symphony Center, and performed Britten’s War Requiem with Northern Chamber Orchestra, Fauré’s Requiem at the Hexham Festival, Elijah with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in a Samling concert at Wigmore Hall and in the Leeds Castle Classical Open Air Concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra among others.