Biography

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Nominated for a What’s On Stage Breakthrough Award and in the Young Artist Category at the 2015 International Opera Awards, Ross Ramgobin studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Tom Hammond Prize, and the National Opera Studio.

He made his Royal Opera debut as Miteb Cities of Salt, returning as Rambashi The Firework Maker’s Daughter. At the International Handel Festival in Göttingen, he has sung Pallante Agrippina and Arasse Siroe, Re di Persia: both performances are now available on CD.

Elsewhere, his engagements have included The Protector Written on Skin with the Melos Sinfonia, Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Israeli Opera, the title role in Owen Wingrave at the Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Festivals, Belcore L’elisir d’amore at the Verbier Festival, Pallante Agrippina at Brisbane Baroque, Kuligin Katya Kabanova for Opera Holland Park, Masetto Don Giovanni for Angers Nantes Opera, Figaro Le nozze di Figaro and Archibald Grosvenor Patience for English Touring Opera and Yuri The Ice Break for Birmingham Opera Company. He also appeared at the 2015 Leeds Castle Classical Open-Air Concert with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and sang Elijah with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Current engagements include Gaveston Lessons in Love and Violence at the Stars of the White Nights Festival, St Petersburg, First Mate Billy Budd for the Royal Opera, London, Schaunard La bohème at the 2018 Dorset Opera Festival, The Counsel for the Plaintiff Trial by Jury at the 2018 BBC Proms and Cristiano Un ballo in maschera for Opera Holland Park.

Engagements in 2019 / 2020 include The Protector Written on Skin for the Festival Présences Radio France at the Philharmonie de Paris and the Wiener Konzerthaus and Moralès Carmen and Guglielmo Così fan tutte for Welsh National Opera.