ARTISTS
Simon Lobelson
Born in Sydney Simon Lobelson grew up in Brussels. He gained First Class Honours in his BA, Music, from the University of Sydney, working with John Pringle. He gained the Tinker Award at the Australian Singing Competition, and moved to London to study at London’s Royal College of Music on a Stanley Picker Scholarship and a Martin Harris Scholarship. He graduated from the BBIOS with distinction in 2006, and continues his studies with Sir Donald McIntyre. At the BBIOS, his roles included Junius in The Rape of Lucretia, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, L’Horloge and Le Chat in L’enfant et les sortilèges, and Dr Falke in Die Fledermaus. His other roles have included Nottingham in Roberto Devereux for Valladolid Opera, Plunkett in Martha for Haddo House Opera, The Prig in Elizabeth Maconchy’s The Sofa for Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte and Marcello in La bohème for British Youth Opera, The Drunken Poet in The Fairy Queen for Pinchgut Opera, L’Horloge and Le Chat in L’enfant et les sortilèges for the European Opera Centre and Harry Easter in The Opera Group’s award-winning production of Street Scene. Recent engagements have included Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Longborough Festival Opera, Joabel in David et Jonathas for Pinchgut Opera, Quinault in Adriana Lecouvreur for Chelsea Opera Group, Aeneas in After Dido (Cover) for English National Opera, Figaro in The Barber of Seville for Garden Opera, Father in The Seven Deadly Sins (Cover) at Covent Garden, the St John Passion for the Brighton Festival Chorus and Berio Sinfonia at the Lucerne Festival, conducted by Pierre Boulez. Future engagements include Osmin in Zaide for the Classical Opera Company, the Nelson Mass on tour with the Israel Camerata, as well as with the London Mozart Players, and Mozart Mass in C Minor at Symphony Hall, Birmingham.
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