Described as “a tenor to watch” who brings “ardour and Italianate resonance” to his performances (Opera Magazine), British tenor Simon Mascarenhas Carter is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Patricia Rozario OBE as a Leverhulme Arts Scholar. He looks forward to joining the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera for the 2026/2027 and 2027/2028 seasons.

Recent engagements include Police Officer I and Peter (cover) in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children (world premiere, Glyndebourne), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Waterperry Opera Festival), Ferrando in Così fan tutte (Da Ponte Opera Festival), Raoul de St. Brioche in The Merry Widow, and Don Curzio in Le nozze di Figaro (Royal College of Music). At Glyndebourne he has also appeared in the chorus for Wagner’s Parsifal, Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Puccini’s La bohème, and performed as a soloist in Handel’s Messiah as part of the Glyndebourne Singing Schools Network.

Upcoming engagements include Echo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and covering Scaramuccio in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival, as well as Alfred in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with Opera Bohemia on tour in Scotland. He will also perform as an Opera Prelude Young Artist in 2026 and is supported by the Pegasus Opera mentorship programme, where he is coached by Jonathan Lemalu.

Simon maintains an active schedule as a concert soloist. Recent performances include Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Britten’s Saint Nicolas, Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle, Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine and Handel’s Messiah. He looks forward to performing the role of Gerontius in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius at Rochester Cathedral with the Rochester Choral Society. In recital he collaborates regularly with guitarist Mark Dangerfield, most recently performing Walton and de Falla at the Royal Albert Hall as part of their Classical Coffee Morning series.

Prior to beginning his studies at the Royal College of Music, Simon worked as a hospital pharmacist and sang as a lay clerk in the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Highlights included performances with the Academy of Ancient Music, participation in the choir’s televised BBC Christmas and Easter broadcasts, and a CD recording of Nico Muhly’s The Street. As an undergraduate he studied Pharmacy at the University of East Anglia, where he held choral scholarships at St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Cathedral and Norwich Cathedral, appearing in broadcasts, concerts with the Britten Sinfonia, and recordings including Evening Hymn and Britten: Sacred Choral Works, in which he features as a soloist.