Simon Mascarenhas Carter

British tenor Simon Mascarenhas Carter studied at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Patricia Rozario OBE, with the support of a Leverhulme Arts scholarship. In the upcoming summer season, Simon will make his debut performing Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Waterperry Opera Festival. Simon has previously performed at the Waterperry Opera Festival as a Young Artist in 2024 and is greatly looking forward to returning this summer. He also joins the Glyndebourne chorus for their productions of Wagner’s Parsifal and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. In the 2024/2025 season, Simon covered the role of Ferrando in Così fan tutte at the inaugural Da Ponte Opera Festival and performed in the RCM International Opera Studio’s productions of Lehár’s The Merry Widow as Raoul de St. Brioche and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro as Don Curzio.

Simon also maintains a busy schedule as a concert soloist with recent highlights 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 William Walton and Manuel 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 King's 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.