Born in Sydney of Egyptian parents and brought up in Brussels, Simon Lobelson gained his Bachelor of Music with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney and completed his Opera Diploma with distinction at The Royal College of Music on scholarship under Roderick Earle. He currently studies with Sir Donald McIntyre and has since worked as a soloist in Australia, the Middle East, Asia, the United Kingdom and Europe.
Simon has appeared with companies such as The Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Chelsea Opera Group, Pinchgut Opera, English Touring Opera, Buxton Festival, Longborough Festival Opera, Spain’s Valladolid Opera, The Classical Opera Company, British Youth Opera, Swansea City Opera and The Opera Project in a wide range of roles including Escamillo, Rigoletto, Alberich, Marcello, Aeneas, both Rossini’s and Mozart’s Figaro, Don Alfonso, Guglielmo, Masetto, Papageno, Osmin in Zaide, Quinalt in Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, Nottingham in Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, Mittenhofer in Henze’s Elegy for Young Lovers, Harry Easter in Weill’s Street Scene, Ramiro in Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and The Pirate King.
On the concert platform, highlights have included Haydn’s Creation and Nelson Mass with the Israel Camerata and London Mozart Players, Berio’s Sinfonia under Pierre Boulez, Bach’s St. John Passion, Christmas Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio alongside James Bowman, Mozart’s Requiem and Great Mass in C minor, Messiah, A Sea Symphony, Ein Deutsches Requiem, Elijah, Carmina Burana and Rameau’s Les Grands Motets with Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in venues such as The Sydney Opera House, Angel Place, Snape Maltings, The Lucerne Festival, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Brighton Festival, LSO St. Lukes, York Minster, Sydney Town Hall and St. Martin in the Fields.
His recordings include The Sofa for Chandos, Haydn's Nelson Mass and Nicolai Mass for Israel Camerata, Purcell's The Fairy Queen and Charpentier's David et Jonathas for ABC Classics, as well as having appeared on BBC Radio 3, both ABC Classic FM and 2MBS FM, and on the inflight soundtrack for British Airways and Qantas flights.
