2022


THE BEST OF G&S
Staged National Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company concert for which Simon also writes the linking script.
Harrogate Royal Hall, January 7

LA BOHEME/Benoit and Alcindoro
Revival of Jonathan Miller’s classic production
English National Opera, London Coliseum
January 31, February 2,4,5(m),10,12(m&e),19(m&e),23,25,27(m&e)

DAILY PROFUNDIS
Simon reads Oscar Wilde's DE PROFUNDIS in fifteen daily instalments. It is then available to listen to in its five hour entirety!
Salisbury Festival
May/June

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Carter/Dr. Wyatt
County Hall, London
Witness for the Prosecution
Simon joins the cast of this celebrated production from March 29th to September 25th

A GARRICK TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Simon sings Sondheim with Julia McKenzie, Janie Dee, Jenna Russell and fellow Garrick Club members Hal Cazalet, Michael Mates and Bruce Graham, accompanied by William Godfree
St Paul’s Covent Garden
May 9

LA BOHEME Benoit/Alcindoro
English National Opera at the South Facing Festival
Crystal Palace Bowl
August 21

JACK SHEPPARD Blueskin/Jonathan Wild
Retrospect Opera recording for CD of George Rodwell’s 1839 operatic melodrama
Autumn 2022

Also in the autumn, a recording, conducted by John Andrews, will be made of Andrew Nicklin’s opera Signor Kelly’s Soufflé, for which Simon wrote the libretto.
Simon will also sing and present THE BEST OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN with the National G&S Opera Company, in Guernsey.
He will present a lecture recital on Gilbert and Sullivan’s PATIENCE with literary critic, historian, poet, Professor of English and Pro Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University, John Strachan (StoryTown Festival).

He currently appears in sixteen complete Gilbert and Sullivan operas on gsopera.tv