Warwick Fyfe


Warwick Olney Fyfe is an Australian operatic heldenbaritone who has an international career. Winner of the Helpmann Award for Best Male in an Operatic Feature Role for his performance as Alberich in Opera Australia's 2013 Bi-Centenary Cycles of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the State Theatre in Melbourne. In August 2017 a career highlight was singing Klingsor in a concert performance of Richard Wagner's Parsifal starring Jonas Kaufmann with Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House.

Career

Fyfe is an alumnus of the Victoria College of the Arts Opera Studio and a Winston Churchill Fellow. On graduation he was a member of the Victoria State Opera, and the Opera Australia Young Artist Programs. He subsequently had a long association with Opera Australia as a senior principal artist. Internationally, he has worked with New Zealand Opera, English Touring Opera Company, Welsh National Opera, Victorian Opera, and has also performed in Singapore, Vietnam, Japan and China.
Concert work includes performances with the Japan Philarmonic, the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Weastern Australian Symphony; the Auckland Philarmonic, New Zealand Symphony, Warsaw Symphony, Singapore Symphony orchestras, and The Orchestra of The Music Makers.
Awards include a Helpmann Award for his 2013 performance as Alberich, in Wagner's Ring Cycle in Melbourne, the Bayreuth Scholarship ; a Green Room Award ; the Leopold Julian Kronenberg Foundation Award at the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Vocal Competition ; a Bayreuth Bursary ; first prize in The McDonald's Aria ; The Heinz Australian Youth Aria; The Dame Mabel Brookes Memorial Fellowship; The Austral Salon Scholarship and The Mabel Kent Scholarship. In 2015 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study Wagnerian Vocal technique in Germany, the US and the U.K.
Most recently he has performed the role of Sancho Panza in Sydney and Melbourne. Forthcoming roles include Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, ; Athanael in Thais, and Amonasro in Aida (both with Finnish National Opera.

Operatic repertoire