British tenor Simon Mascarenhas Carter is a recent graduate of the Royal College of Music, having studied with Patricia Rozario OBE, supported by a Leverhulme Arts Scholarship.
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 grateful to be supported by the Pegasus Opera Mentorship programme in the coming year.
Highlights of the 2024/2025 season include performing Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Waterperry Opera Festival, joining the Glyndebourne chorus for their productions of Wagner’s Parsifal and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, performing the role of Raoul de St. Brioche for the RCM production of Lehár’s The Merry Widow and covering Ferrando in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Da Ponte Opera Festival.
