FORTE: their self-titled debut in 2013, and The Future Classics in 2016. In March 2018 Panikkar sang the role of Greenhorn in Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick at the Pittsburgh Opera. He then joined the Salzburg Festival in performances of The Bassarids, and in the lead role of Gandhi in Philip Glass's opera Satyagraha. Of his experience in that role he said: Panikkar was also named "Artist of the Week" by Opernwelt. Panikkar began 2019 with a four-night run of the reunited AGT finalist lineup of FORTE at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center in The Villages, Florida. He then visited his family's homeland of Sri Lanka for the first time to present song recitals with soprano Tharanga Goonatilleke and pianist Rohan De Silva. Panikkar began May with the performance of Nadir in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers at Kansas City Lyric Opera. In summer 2019, Panikkar starred in The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at the Festival d’Aix-En-Provence. In the fall at the Komische Oper Berlin he sang the role of Dionysus in Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids. In January 2020 he headlined Bizet's Carmen at the English National Opera. Although the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of many of his engagements, in October 2020 at Michigan Opera Theater in Detroit he sang the role of Siegfried in an abridged version of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, a radical reinterpretation of that opera set in a parking garage and viewed by audience members driving through in cars. On November 22, 2022, he sang the role of Leonard Woolf in the stage premiere of Kevin Puts's opera The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera. The performance of December 10 was video-cast as part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series. Panikkar has been honored by the George London Foundation with the 2007 Robert Jacobson Memorial Award and a 2009 George London Award; he was a First Prize winner of the 2010 Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, and second-place winner in the 2009 International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition. Discography Shalimar the Clown, with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, tenor soloist Stravinsky's Perséphone, with the American Symphony Orchestra, tenor soloist Mozart's Zaide (DVD) as Gomatz, directed by Peter Sellars, Medici Arts Puccini's Manon Lescaut (DVD with the Metropolitan Opera), as Edmondo, EMI Classics William Bolcom, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, soloist The Armed Man: A Concert for Peace (DVD) Rackham Symphony