[2] He took the stage for the first time at the National Youth Music Theatre and by the age of 12 had his debut at Glyndebourne in The Ragged Child.
[3] In January 2012, McGovern sang Schumann, Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams at the Wigmore Hall and the same year performed as Yamadori in Madama Butterfly at the English National Opera.
He also performed in Jette Steckel [de]'s The Magic Flute under a direction from Jean-Christophe Spinosi at the Hamburg State Opera and played a lead role in Barbora Horáková's L'Orfeo at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Spain.
[6] In 2018, he had appeared in Michael Boyd's Don Giovanni at the Garsington Opera and then reprised his role as Papageno under Kent Nagano and made his debut with the Welsh National Opera as Prince Andrei in Prokofiev's War and Peace and Staatstheatre Klagenfurt as Pelléas.
He also participated in the Nico Muhly's The Last Letter with Britten Sinfonia[6] and recorded songs by Mendelssohn with pianist Malcolm Martineau.