Simon Wallfisch made debuts in 2023 for the ROYAL OPERA COVENT GARDEN in the role of Deputato Fiammingi in DON CARLO and as the Fünfte Richter in Kongold’s DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE at the DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN and appears also in the roles of Kuusi in Elena Kats-Chernin’s NILS HOLGERSSONS WUNDERSAME ABENTEUER and Barbavano in Offenbach’s DIE BANDITEN at the KOMISCHE OPER BERLIN. Since 2023 he i engaged as Chorsolist at the Komische Oper Berlin where he often appears as soloist.
Wallfisch was initially engaged as a member of the INTERNATIONAL OPERA STUDIO at OPERNHAUS ZURICH from 2009 to 2011 and subsequently has appeared in such roles as Fieramosca in BENVENUTO CELLINI for STAATSOPER NÜRNBERG,f or ENGLISH TOURING OPERA has appeared as both Pelléas in PELLÉAS ET MÉLISANDE and Albert in WERTHER and in 2024 has performed the title role in the company’s season of Judith Weir’s BLOND ECKBERT at the ALDEBURGH FESTIVAL.
He made his WIGMORE HALL debut in 2017, performing with the NASH ENSEMBLE live on BBC RADIO 3, he has appeared several times at the OXFORD LIEDER FESTIVAL, LONDON SONG FESTIVAL, include being engaged as soloist with the ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS in its CONNECT – LOVE, LIES & JUSTICE series of streamed performances in 2021, in CARMINA BURANA, for CHORALSPACE, conducted by Sergi Gili Solé, at the BERLIN PHILHARMONIE, and being engaged to both curate the program and appear as baritone soloist with the BBC SINGERSin the BBC‘s TOTAL IMMERSION series at London’s BARBICAN CENTRE.
2023/2024 has included Jonathan Dove’s IN EXILE with the FILHARMONIA POZNAŃSKA and recitals in the Chamber Series of the SLOVAK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and in the LEEDS LIEDER series.
2025/2026 includes his solo debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Wroclaw Filhamonica and recital at the Wigmore Hall.
He is amassing a steady output of recordings, including Songs by Geoffrey Bush (Lyrita 2015), Songs by Caplet, Honegger, Milhaud and Ravel (Nimbus 2017), Gesänge des Orients (Nimbus 2018), Songs by Thea Musgrave (Lyrita 2019), Songs by Robin Holloway (Delphian 2019) Schumann Lieder (Resonus 2019), Brahms Lieder (Resonus 2020) and Kowalski Lieder (Nimbus 2023).
Wallfisch is a graduate of the ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC and of the HANNS EISLER HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK in Berlin and the HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY in Leipzig.