British tenor Simon Mascarenhas Carter is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, having held a Leverhulme Arts Scholarship and studied with Patricia Rozario OBE. He is looking forward to joining the Opera Studio of the Vienna State Opera for the 2026/2027 and 2027/2028 seasons.

In the current season, Simon made his role debut at Glyndebourne as Police Officer I in the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s The Railway Children and covered the role of Peter. In addition, He performed 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 looking forward to returning to Glyndebourne in the upcoming summer festival to perform in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo as Echo and in the chorus, as well as covering the role of Scaramuccio in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne Auf Naxos. Simon is also looking forward to making his role debut as Alfred in Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus with Opera Bohemia, touring Scotland in April 2026. He is very grateful to be supported by the Pegasus Opera mentorship programme over the coming year, where he will be coached by Jonathan Lemalu. He will also perform as an Opera Prelude Young Artist in 2026.

In the 2024/2025 season, Simon made his role debut performing Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Waterperry Opera Festival, receiving praise for the ‘ardour and Italianate resonance’ that he invested in the role and described as ‘a tenor to watch’ by Opera Magazine (Mark Valencia, 2025). He also joined the Glyndebourne chorus for their productions of Wagner’s Parsifal and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. Previous highlights include Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte (Da Ponte Opera Festival), Raoul de St. Brioche in The Merry Widow and Don Curzio in The Marriage of Figaro (Royal College of Music).

Simon 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. He is looking forward to performing the role of Gerontius in Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius in Rochester Cathedral with Rochester Choral Society in March. 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 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.