Marcello: La bohème / Opera Holland Park 2023
“…Ross Ramgobin’s wide-eyed, ardent Marcello.”
The Guardian
“…the searching Marcello of Ross Ramgobin.”
The Stage
“…admirably sung.”
The Standard
“Ross Ramgobin makes a fine, sardonic Marcello…”
The Times
Hajný: Rusalka / Royal Opera, London, 2023
” Hajný and Kuchtík (Ross Ramgobin and Hongni Wu respectively) were fabulously entertaining.”
Seen and Heard International
…a superb cast with no weak links…Ross Ramgobin was excellent as Hajný.”
The Standard
Schaunard: La bohème / Royal Opera, London, 2022
“Ross Ramgobin is a Schaunard full of joie de vivre, carefree and light-hearted.”
Connessi all’Opera
“As Schaunard, Ross Ramgobin is light on his feet with a sweet-toned voice…”
London Unattached
“Ross Ramgobin stands out for the strength of his baritone and the flamboyance he brings to the role of Schaunard.”
Opera Online
“Ross Ramgobin brings fine comic timing to the party.”
Seen and Heard International
Stanford: Requiem / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 2022
“Ross Ramgobin sidestepped notions of grief and guilt in favour of lyrical, low-key majesty…”
Bachtrack
Death: Savitri / Britten Sinfonia 2022
“Ross Ramgobin conveyed both the menace and the dignity of Death…”
Bachtrack
“Savitri, her husband Satyavān and the incarnation of Death (the baritone Ross Ramgobin) all gave superlative vocal performances…”
Opera
Second Brother: The Seven Deadly Sins / London Symphony Orchestra 2022
“Nice to see Ross Ramgobin among the line-up as one of the brothers – he previously impressed massively in Figaro at Opera Holland Park and in his ENO debut this season as Prince Arjuna in Philip Glass’ Satyagraha, and this is surely another step in his ascent.”
Seen and Heard International
“The accompanying male-voice ensemble – Andrew Staples and Florian Boesch as Anna’s father and mother, with Alessandro Fisher and Ross Ramgobin as the brothers – provided a suitably pungent commentary.”
The Standard
Prince Arjuna: Satyagraha / English National Opera 2021
“All of them shone, no one more so than baritone Ross Ramgobin (Prince Arjuna)…”
Bachtrack
“Among the standout singers…Ross Ramgobin as Prince Arjuna…”
Culture Whisper
“As Arjuna, baritone Ross Ramgobin – in another Coliseum debut was splendid.”
Seen and Heard International
Alberich: RhineGold / Birmingham Opera Company 2021
“The most interesting casting was lyric baritone Ross Ramgobin as Alberich…the big set-piece of Alberich’s curse, which Ramgobin pulls off without strain…”
The Arts Desk
“Alberich, played with huge capering energy by Ross Ramgobin…”
The Telegraph
“…the standouts included Ross Ramgobin’s petulant Alberich…”
The Times
Figaro: Le nozze di Figaro / Opera Holland Park 2021
“…vocally secure and alert to all the comic possibilities…”
Bachtrack
“In the title role, Ross Ramgobin is nimble in voice and action…”
Culture Whisper
“Ramgobin’s naïve, attractive Figaro…”
The Guardian
“Ross Ramgobin is a charismatic Figaro…”
iNews
“Ross Ramgobin was an elegant Figaro with an angry snarl, making much of the words…”
Opera
“Ross Ramgobin’s Figaro is lyrical and flexible…’Se vuol ballare’ was impressive and compelling – as well as his top F.”
Opera Wire
“Ross Ramgobin’s goofy, handsomely sung Figaro and Samantha Price’s endearingly cocky Cherubino stood out from a generally enjoyable cast.”
The Spectator
“Ross Ramgobin’s Figaro is invariably effective and his stagecraft impeccable.”
The Stage
“Strong dramatic performances from (ia) Ross Ramgobin, an experienced Figaro…”
The Sunday Times
The Royal Opera Christmas Concert / Royal Opera House
“Alexandra Lowe returned to sing Papagena, the perfect match for birdcathcher Papageno in a closing duet from Mozart’s The Magic Flute with baritone Ross Ramgobin. Ramgobin has been another Christmas bonus – heartbreaking in Grange Park’s Owen Wingrave and partying with gusto in Opera Holland Park’s Christmas bonanza.”
Culture Whisper
“Ross Ramgobin, rapidly emerging as a fine singing actor, was sweet, funny and touching as Mozart’s Papageno…”
The Guardian
“After his persuasive performance in Grange Park Opera’s recent filmed production of Owen Wingrave, Ross Ramgobin was here a personable and confident birdcatcher om ‘Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja,’ and he was joined by Sophie Bevan for a delightfully carefree ‘Bei Männern welche Liebe fühlen,’ the grace and elegance of Pamina’s soprano line was complemented winningly by Ramgobin’s characterful baritone.”
Opera Today
The Protector: Written On Skin / Melos Sinfonia
“It’s Ross Ramgobin’s Protector, his smile sharp as a blade, that sets the tone. Without his ferocity, his arrogance we’d lose the note of danger that must sound from the very start. His warm baritone, clearly articulated and projected, deploys Crimp’s consonants like pistol shots, and finds plenty of colour to nuance the character’s villainy. Dominating the stage-space, Ramgobin becomes the centre, not a point, of this love-triangle.”
The Arts Desk
“The evening was dominated by Ross Ramgobin’s magnificently sung and sharply-acted Protector, encompassing the role’s Bluebeard-like alpha-male obsession and Golaud’s eruptive jealousy to overwhelming effect. His voice has fullness, range and variety, he could turn the flow of the drama with the smallest gesture and his delivery was always inside the text.”
Classical Source
“Ross Ramgobin was a smouldering Protector, a walking time-bomb…”
The Guardian
The Protector: Written On Skin / Festival Présences de Radio France
“Ross Ramgobin gives us a terrifying Protector of contained violence…”
Bachtrack
“As The Protector, baritone Ross Ramgobin is the dominating man and master. It’s a beautiful voice, full of the necessary authority, almost faltering when anger overwhelms him, the low and high notes equally impressive (the role rises very high) and in absolute command of the role.”
Passion Opera
Claudio: Béatrice et Bénédict / Royal Academy Opera
“…the stars of Jennifer France’s Héro and Ross Ramgobin’s Claudio shone brightly indeed, their lines both ardent yet elegantly shaped in fine Gallic fashion”.
Seen and Heard International
Owen Wingrave / Aldeburgh Festival
“…The greatest triumph belongs to Ramgobin’s Wingrave, as it should. He shows us an adolescent at breaking point right from the start, which makes Owen’s stands against an unrelenting fury- family and his solo in praise of peace – for the first time in my experience truly tear-jerking and desperately sad as the vision crumbles – all the more impressive.”
The Arts Desk
“If Ross Ramgobin and Catherine Backhouse don’t make it big, there’s as little justice in the world as there is in Britten’s and James’s hermetically sealed Paramore.“
The Arts Desk – Best of 2014
“Young Ross Ramgobin is an almost ideal Owen Wingrave: he’s just the right age to convincingly bring the rebellious spirit of the eponymous hero to the stage. With his beautiful, smooth baritone voice, he effortlessly shapes his character’s tempestuous mood changes.”
General Anzeiger Bonn
“Ross Ramgobin heroically incarnates the doomed hero…”
The Independent
“…there’s a triumphant debut from the young British baritone Ross Ramgobin, who finds a way to sing the title role with clarity and beauty yet still show himself a fighter.”
New York Times
“Ross Ramgobin sang with honeyed warmth, and portrayed Owen’s youthful innocence with as much detail as his later scowling bitterness and angst.”
Opera
“Baritone Ross Ramgobin made a suitably sensitive and determined Owen,”
Opera News
“Young baritone Ross Ramgobin suggested both the vulnerability and the strength of Owen.”
Opera Now
“Baritone Ross Ramgobin displayed much vocal elegance in the title role and evoked considerable pathos…”
Seen and Heard International
“There are no weak links anywhere in the cast, either, though Ross Ramgobin’s thoughtful Owen, Jonathan Summers’ sympathetic Spencer Coyle, Samantha Crawford’s humane Mrs Coyle and Janis Kelly’s Mrs Julian are particularly notable.”
The Stage
“The cast bears comparison with Britten’s own. Ross Ramgobin grew into the title part through the course of the action.”
Sunday Times
Owen Wingrave / Edinburgh Festival
“Ross Ramgobin –in fine voice and with impeccable enunciation.”
The Scotsman
“Ross Ramgobin is first rate as Owen, his voice beautiful yet muscular and full of youthful energy.”
Seen and Heard International
The ghosts and the family members mingle in silhouette, isolating Ross Ramgobin’s callow and undemonstrative Owen in a sort of double focus. He sings the role beautifully, making Britten’s uncompromising, hard-won lyricism sound the most natural expression in the world.”
What’s On Stage
“Ross Ramgobin, playing the central role, was touching and vulnerable.”
ArteMuseLondon
“Ross Ramgobin, as resonant as ever and wholly immersed in his role.”
Bachtrack
“Ross Ramgobin’s lyrical baritone conveys Owen’s artistic sensibility – “Courage in war is false. Courage in peace, the kind that poets know wins everything.” – but he does not neglect the fierceness of Owen’s convictions and the strength of his determination. Both elegant and intense, the sweetness of the “peace aria” suspends time much like Billy Budd’s “far-shining sail,” but there is also a surprisingly vehement anger and almost Grimes-like defiance at times in his self-defences and as he implores the family portraits, and we are reminded that Owen is, after all, a “soldier.”
Classical Iconoclast
“…a superbly sensitive performance by acclaimed young baritone Ross Ramgobin.”
Guildford Dragon
“It is left to Ross Ramgobin’s Owen to give us an emotional foothold. He finds an intensity in his delivery, a weight to his tone that suggests violence barely held in check, turning Owen from a saint into a much more interesting struggle of a man.”
iNews
“In the title role, Ross Ramgobin suffers convincingly as the sensitive Owen Wingrave…his baritone has an exceptionally full-blooded warmth…”
Opera Online
“Ross Ramgobin’s lyrical baritone conveys Owen’s artistic sensibility – “Courage in war is false. Courage in peace, the kind that poets know wins everything,” but he does not neglect the fierceness of Owen’s convictions and the strength of his determination.”
Opera Today
“…we focus on Owen; a strong performance from Ross Ramgobin who eschews naivety and priggishness and replaces them with an ardent stubbornness. Ramgobin makes a complex and very watchable Owen, dogged rather than callow.
Planet Hugill
“Rising baritone Ross Ramgobin makes every word of the title role tell in a performance notable for its complexity as well as assurance.
The Stage
“Ross Ramgobin is immensely sympathetic as the high-minded Owen.”
The Telegraph
“Ross Ramgobin finds a fierce nobility in the title role that pulls the threads together.”
The Times
Rambashi: The Firework Maker’s Daughter / Royal Opera, London
“The ever-optimistic jack of all trades Rambashi is enthusiastically portrayed by Ross Ramgobin, who also gives us a hilariously evil Emperor in the most visually stunning costume of the night, complete with mask, stilts and thin golden fingertips”
Bachtrack
Ross Ramgobin makes a virtuosic fist of Rambashi, the elephant-keeper-turned-pirate-turned-chef-turned-master-of-ceremonies.”
The Financial Times
“Ross Ramgobin exploits Rambashi’s ramshackle portfolio career as pirate, chef and MC with bags of energy, and doubles as the capricious king who threatens to execute Lila’s elderly father “in the kindest possible way.”
The Guardian
“…there are other star turns in this fine ensemble show, most notably by Ross Ramgobin, Peter Kirk, and countertenor Tai Oney as a fancifully-conceived pet elephant.”
The Independent
Belcore: L’elisir d’amore / Verbier Festival
“The assertive vibrancy of Ross Ramgobin’s sound put Belcore very much in the picture as a sharp-suited but good-natured Jack the Lad.”
Opera
Pallante: Agrippina / Brisbane Baroque
“Narciso (Owen Willetts) and Pallante (Ross Ramgobin) – Agrippina’s hapless stooges – were appropriately foppish but secure vocally.”
Opera
Pallante: Agrippina / International Handel Festival, Göttingen
“Ross Ramgobin was excellent as the intriguing Pallante.”
HNA
“Ross Ramgobin convinces as a scheming Pallante, with his powerful baritone and machismo presence.”
OMM
“…Ramgobin’s robust baritone.”
The Opera Critic
Pallante: Agrippina / Accent CD
As Agrippina’s dupes Pallante and Narciso, baritone Ross Ramgobin and countertenor Owen Willetts sound particularly fine in their Act II arias.:
Opera News
Arasse: Siroe, Re di Persia / International Handel Festival, Göttingen
“Although Ross Ramgobin had no aria as Siroe’s faithful friend Arasse, he made a strong impression with impressive depth in his recitatives.”
OMM
Mahler: Rückert Lieder / Melos Sinfonia
The young baritone Ross Ramgobin made a good impression in the five Rückert songs of Mahler. The voice itself is attractive. Ramgobin has a good, reliable technique, a pleasing stage presence, and he brought a good degree of character to his interpretation.”
Seen and Heard International
Masetto: Don Giovanni / Angers Nantes Opera
“Ross Ramgobin is an excellent Masetto, powerfully projected but easily sung.”
Forum Opéra
“The Masetto Ross Ramgobin brings great freshness and dynamism to a role too often caricatured. His lively stage performance does not preclude a beautiful voice, both powerful and fresh.”
Olyrix
“Ross Ramgobin was a virile Masetto, with a commanding voice.”
Opéra
Figaro: The Marriage of Figaro / English Touring Opera
“Ross Ramgobin’s handsome Figaro plots and schemes with wide-eyed glee, and there’s real tenderness in his scenes with (Rachel) Redmond’s self-assured Susanna…”
The Guardian
“Ross Ramgobin’s physical energy as Figaro was matched by singing of vibrant glamour…”
Opera
“Vital, alert and quite properly at the centre of things is Ross Ramgobin’s Figaro – another successful step forward in the career of this appreciably talented young baritone.”
The Stage
“As Figaro, Ross Ramgobin is a theatrical livewire, athletic, alert and more than a match for Dawid Kimberg’s dull-witted Count.”
The Sunday Times
“…sang and acted throughout with a freshness and charm that vividly communicated youthful aspiration and energy…”
The Telegraph
“Ross Ramgobin was a storming Figaro, his sly grin as infectious as his warm baritone while he dominated the stage with the force of his personality.”
WhatsOnStage
Papageno: Die Zauberflöte / Royal Academy Opera
“Ross Ramgobin made an engaging Papageno, the comic elevated over the very real pathos with which Mozart endows his bird-man, yet Ramgobin showed himself undoubtedly blessed with the gift of stage presence.”
Boulezian
“…Ross Ramgobin’s endearing Papageno.”
Opera
Archibald Grosvenor: Patience / English Touring Opera
“…Ross Ramgobin’s artlessly bumptious presentation of “idyllic poet” Archibald Grosvenor, his rich lyric baritone and flawless timing hinting at star potential.”
The Guardian
“Sporting a lustrous dark mane, Ross Ramgobin’s Grosvenor was a worthy heir to the role’s originator, Rutland Barrington, reveling in the poet’s belief in himself as ‘gifted with a beauty which probably has not its rival on earth.’”
Opera
“Ross Ramgobin evinced star quality as Archibald Grosvenor: Ramgobin’s beguiling baritone was powerful and clean, and gave substance to Grosvenor’s insipid amiability and mild-mannered, holier-than-thou-ness.”
Opera Today
“…vocally adroit and gently amusing.”
The Telegraph
“Ross Ramgobin is persuasive as the self-obsessed Archibald Grosvenor and the cockney geezer into which this “trustee for beauty” is transfigured.”
The Times
“It’s a real treat after ENO’s lettuce-limp Pirates that Gilbert’s creaky dialogue comes across with such new-minted freshness, particularly by Ramgobin whose gift for comedy is as warm as the gorgeous baritone that earned him a nod in the 2015 WhatsOnStage Opera Poll.”
WhatsOnStage
Schaunard: La bohème / Dorset Opera Festival
“Pauls Putnins and Ross Ramgobin were strongly cast as Colline and Schaunard, the former displaying a bold, forceful bass-baritone, the later elegantly sung under an unseasonably thick coat.”
Bachtrack
“His resilient baritone another major asset, Ross Ramgobin’s Schaunard enlivens every scene in which he takes part…”
The Stage
Ramiro: L’heure espagnole / Grange Park Opera (film)
“…the twinkle in Ross Ramgobin’s eye has Catherine Backhouse’s heroines all of a swoon…”
Bachtrack
“I loved Ross Ramgobin’s rippling baritone as much as Concepción admired his rippling muscles.”
British Theatre Guide
“Watch out for baritone Ross Ramgobin…”
Culture Whisper
“…the cast is well chosen, led by Catherine Backhouse as the wife and Ross Ramgobin as the delivery man.”
The Financial Times
“…the warm baritone Ross Ramgobin.”
London Grip
“Ross Ramgobin is an engaging ingenue, all brawn, brightness and boyishness. Ramgobin brings forth Ramiro’s sincerity, kindness and gentleness: ‘Voilà ce que j’appelle une femme charmante’ is lovely in its guileless directness. His baritone is appealingly warm and firm, but he reveals, too, a delicately floating head-voice suggesting that there are rivers within his soul than run deeper than we might imagine.”
Opera Today
Ross Ramgobin sang Ramiro with husky tenderness, balancing moments of strength and power with delicacy and warmth; he is deliciously cheeky and playfully coy.
OperaWire
“Ross Ramgobin as the obliging Ramiro gives a winning portrayal that ripens from innocence to intent, wriggling his hips suggestively when Concepción declares ‘The man has muscles beyond belief’. His warm baritone is heard to advantage when he extols the native charm of women in general and the clockmaker’s wife in particular.”
The Quarterly Review
“…Ross Ramgobin’s warm baritone as the happy smiling Ramiro who is guileless abouyt women’s wiles.”
Seen and Heard International
“…rising baritone Ross Ramgobin makes an utterly winning Ramiro.”
The Stage
“…Ross Ramgobin’s joyously credulous Ramiro…”
The Sunday Times
“…winningly sung and acted by Ross Ramgobin…”
The Times
Onegin: Eugene Onegin / Royal Academy Opera
“Ross Ramgobin’s Onegin was finely sung.”
Opera
“…he charted an excellent dramatic course, clearly transformed by the fatal duel with Lensky.”
Seen and Heard International
Yuri: The Ice Break / Birmingham Opera Company
“Ross Ramgobin embodied the troubling role of Yuri with fierce conviction.”
Birmingham Post
“Ross Ramgobin was excellent as the idealist, angry son. He managed to make the final reconciliation and mature understanding of his past actions both moving and convincing.”
Classical Source
“Ross Ramgobin brought seething intensity to Yuri.”
Opera
“…sings with clarity and passion.”
The Telegraph
“There are outstanding performances from (ia) Ross Ramgobin as Yuri…”
The Times
Samling Showcase / Wigmore Hall
“(Ross) Ramgobin has an elegant, full baritone and his rendition of ‘Wandrers Nachtlied I’ (Wanderer’s nightsong I), the first of three songs by Schubert, had a gentle ease and well-shaped sense of line. In ‘Am Strome’ (By the river), a subtle employment of rubato and tender diminuendo in the final verse movingly conveyed the protagonist’s yearning ‘for kinder shores’, while Sherlock’s short piano postlude offered some a hint of warmth and consolation. ‘Sehnsucht’ (Longing) was underpinned by the quiet but troubled throbbing of the repeating piano motif, the vocal line once again communicating clear emotions and meaning, thanks to Ramgobin’s astute appreciation of structure and line…Ramgobin’s performance of Wagner’s ‘Wie Todesahnung … O du ein holder Abendstern’ from Tannhäuser was one of the highlights of the evening, full of colour and interest, and sung with a warm, honeyed tone.”
Opera Today
