British tenor Simon Mascarenhas Carter is a recent graduate of the Master’s programme in Vocal Performance at the Royal College of Music, having held a Leverhulme Arts Scholarship and studying with Patricia Rozario OBE.

In the 2025/2026 season, Simon will make his role debut with Glyndebourne as Police officer I in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children. He will also perform in the ensemble for this production, in the chorus for Puccini’s La bohème, and as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah as part of Glyndebourne’s Singing Schools Network performances. Simon is very grateful to be supported by the Pegasus Opera mentorship programme over the coming year, where he will be coached by Jonathan Lemalu.

In the 2024/2025 season, Simon made his role debut performing Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Waterperry Opera Festival and joined the Glyndebourne chorus for their productions of Wagner’s Parsifal and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In the 2023/2024 season, Simon covered the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the inaugural Da Ponte Opera Festival held in Vittorio Veneto and at the RCM, performed in the International Opera Studio’s productions of Lehár’s The Merry Widow as Raoul de St. Brioche and Don Curzio in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Simon also maintains a busy schedule as a concert soloist with highlights from recent seasons including Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Stölzel’s Ein Lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld and Handel’s Messiah. In recital, Simon enjoys regular collaboration with guitarist Mark Dangerfield, most recently the two performed a programme of Walton and de Falla at the Royal Albert Hall Elgar room as part of their classical coffee morning series.

Prior to joining the Royal College of Music in 2023, Simon worked as a hospital pharmacist and sang as a lay clerk in the choir of Kings College Cambridge. Highlights include performing with the Academy of Ancient Music, being involved in a CD recording of a new work, ‘The Street’ by Nico Muhly and singing in the annual Christmas and Easter televised BBC broadcasts. As an undergraduate Simon studied Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia in Norwich where he held choral scholarships at St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic cathedral and subsequently at Norwich cathedral. He participated in multiple broadcasts, concerts with the Britten Sinfonia and two CD recordings, ‘Evening Hymn’ and ‘Britten: Sacred Choral Works’, in the latter of which he features as a soloist.

Outside of singing, Simon can often be found playing squash, a passion he has maintained since childhood where he played for his home county of Cambridgeshire. He also enjoys cooking, gardening and windsurfing.