The British-Sri Lankan baritone Armand Rabot comes from the north-west of England and studied with Ben Johnson.
In 2023 he won the prestigious Grange Festival Prize and first prize at the Hurn Court Opera Singer of the Year Competition. He has also received a scholarship from the Kathleen Ferrier Society and was a semi-finalist at the Mozart Singing Competition in London. His recent engagements include Mercurio/Famigliare III (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Keeper of the Madhouse (The Rake’s Progress) and Narumov (The Queen of Spades) at the Grange Festival, Peter (Hänsel und Gretel) for Hampstead Garden Opera (HGO) and Pistol in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Sir John in Love and various roles in Vaughan Williams’s The Pilgrim’s Progress for British Youth Opera.
In 2024 Armand Rabot performed in a concert at the National Concert Hall in Dublin to mark the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Ann Murray. He has also sung in Mozart’s Requiem in Liverpool Cathedral, Handel’s Messiah in Shrewsbury Cathedral, Fauré’s Requiem in Blackburn Cathedral and Bach’s St John Passion and St Matthew Passion with the Liverpool Bach Collective.
