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Award-winning Australian baritone Simon Meadows enjoys a busy opera and concert career throughout Europe, Asia and Australasia.
His many roles for Opera Australia have included title roles in Il barbiere di Siviglia and Gianni Schicchi, Michele (Il tabarro), Telramund (Lohengrin), The Count (Le nozze di Figaro), Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), The Gaoler (Tosca) and The Lieutenant in Kate Miller-Heidke’s The Rabbits.
He returned to Opera Australia in 2025 in the title role in Il barbiere di Siviglia and appeared as The High Priest in Samson et Dalila for Melbourne Opera. In 2026, he sings Turandot, Rigoletto, The Drover’s Wife and La bohème for Opera Australia and is soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras.
Previously for Victorian Opera, he sang Priam in Simon Bruckard’s Cassandra, Jacob Marley in A Christmas Carol, Orest’s Tutor in Elektra, First Nazarene in Salome and Jimmy in Stuart Greenbaum’s The Parrot Factory. Simon was the baritone soloist both for the world premiere of Richard Mills’ song cycle In Tempore Bello and in Fauré’s Requiem (in collaboration with the Australian Ballet).
For Melbourne Opera, Simon has performed the title roles in Macbeth and The Barber of Seville, Alberich in Das Rheingold and Siegfried, Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier, Escamillo in Carmen, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte and many others.
A celebrated concert artist, Simon has taken the bass solos in Schubert’s Mass in G (Wexford, Ireland), Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (Romsey Abbey, UK and Melbourne Symphony), Beethoven’s Symphony No.9 and Mozart’s Requiem (Sydney Philharmonia), Carmina Burana and A Sea Symphony (Royal Melbourne Philharmonic), Judas Maccabaeus (Heidelberg Choral Society), The Creation (St James’s Church, Sydney), Serenade to Music (Victorian Opera), and Kindertotenlieder, Messiah and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia (Monash Symphony).
