Warwick Fyfe

Warwick Olney Fyfe (born 27 September 1969 in Canberra) 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.[1] 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.[2]

Warwick Fyfe
Born(1969-09-27)27 September 1969
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
OccupationOperatic baritone
Spouse(s)Dr Ruth Frances Fyfe
AwardsHelpmann Award 2014 for Best Supporting Actor
Websitewww.warwickfyfe.com

Career

Fyfe is an alumnus of the Victoria College of the Arts (Melbourne University) 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 (Singapore).

Awards include a Helpmann Award for his 2013 performance as Alberich, in Wagner's Ring Cycle in Melbourne, the Bayreuth Scholarship (2007); a Green Room Award (2005); the Leopold Julian Kronenberg Foundation Award at the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Vocal Competition (Warsaw, 2001); a Bayreuth Bursary (2000); first prize in The McDonald's Aria (1998); 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 (Don Quichotte) in Sydney and Melbourne. Forthcoming roles include Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, (Melbourne); Athanael in Thais, and Amonasro in Aida (both with Finnish National Opera.[3]

Operatic repertoire

Roles in preparation

Concert repertoire

Recordings

Awards
  • 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 in Melbourne[6]
  • Bayreuth Scholarship 2007[7]
  • Bayreuth Bursary 2000
  • Churchill Fellowship 2015
  • Green Room Award 2005
  • Leopold Julian Krönenberg Award at the Stanislaw Moniuszko International Vocal Competition, Warsaw 2001
  • McDonald's Aria Sydney 1998[8]
  • The Heinz Australian Youth Aria, Dandenong
  • The Dame Mabel Brookes Memorial Fellowship
  • The Austral Salon Scholarship
  • The Mabel Kent Scholarship.

References
  1. "Warwick Fyfe". Opera Australia.
  2. McCallum, Peter (10 August 2017). "Parsifal review: Opera Australia's performance as close to ideal as possible". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. "Warwick Fyfe Profile". Ooppera – Baletti.
  4. "Sergey Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges". Chandos Records.
  5. Barfoot, Terry (February 2013). "Review: Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier – Opera Australia OPOZ56026DVD [TB]". www.musicweb-international.com. Classical Music Reviews.
  6. "Past nominees and winners". Helpmann Awards.
  7. "In Conversation with Warwick Fyfe". The Arts House.
  8. "Warwick Fyfe". Sydney Eisteddfod.
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