Warwick Fyfe

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Warwick Fyfe
Born (1969-09-27) 27 September 1969 (age 55)
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
OccupationOperatic baritone
SpouseRuth Frances Fyfe
Awards Helpmann Award 2014 for Best Supporting Actor
Website warwickfyfe.com

Warwick Olney Fyfe (born 27 September 1969) is an Australian operatic heldenbaritone. [1] He is known for his performance in the Wagnerian repertoire. [2] In 2015, Fyfe was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study Wagnerian vocal technique with coaches in Germany, US and UK. [3] [4]

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Education and early career

Born in Canberra, Fyfe attended Narrabundah College and the Canberra School of Music (ANU) between 1986 and 1987. [5] Fyfe is an alumnus of the Victorian College of the Arts (Melbourne University) Opera Studio and a fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts. [6] Subsequently, he was a member of the Victoria State Opera (VSO, 1995), and Opera Australia (OA, 1998) Young Artist Programs. [7]

On graduating, Fyfe's first professional work was with the Victoria State Opera Schools Company in 1992. [8] Following that, he was a principal and senior principal member of the Opera Australia ensemble for many years, performing regularly at the Sydney Opera House, and the Melbourne Arts Centre. [9]

Career

Internationally, he has worked with New Zealand Opera, English Touring Opera, [10] Welsh National Opera [9] and Finnish National Opera. [11] [12] Fyfe has also performed in Singapore, Vietnam, Japan and China. [13]

Warwick has performed Hans Sachs (for Melbourne 2025), Scarpia (for Opera Australia 2024); [14] Alberich in Wagner's Ring cycle (in Brisbane 2023) for Opera Australia; Wotan in the Ring cycle (in Bendigo 2023) for Melbourne Opera Company, The Speaker in Gurre-Lieder (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, 2024), Vodnik (The Water King), [15] in Rusalka , for West Australian Opera 2024 and Scarpia in Tosca for Opera Australia in Sydney. [14]

Concert work includes performances with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, [16] the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, [17] Sydney Symphony Orchestra, [18] Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, [19] West Australian Symphony Orchestra; the Auckland Philharmonia, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Music Makers (Singapore). [20]

Repertoire

Roles performed by Warwick Fyfe [13] [19] [21]

Discography

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Clements, Andrew. "Siegfried – review". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  2. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe". Melbourne Symphony Orchestra . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Warwick Fyfe". Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  4. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe". Opera Australia .
  5. ↑ "A Wagnerian Tuba-player: An Interview with Warwick Fyfe – Context". doi:10.46580/cx11187 . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  6. ↑ "Winston Churchill Trust Fellow Warwick Fyfe NSW 2015" . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  7. ↑ "Opera Australia Young Artist Program (Alumni)" . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe". Opera Australia .
  9. 1 2 "WAO Spotlight with Warwick Fyfe". West Australian Opera . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  10. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe". English Touring Opera . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  11. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe performance details", encore.opera.fi
  12. ↑ "Ylellisen värikäs Thaïs-ooppera hurmaa katsojansa – katso taltiointi Kansallisoopperan esityksestä" [The luxuriously colorful Thaïs opera charms its audience – watch a recording of the performance by the Finnish National Opera], Helsingin Sanomat , 14 February 2019 (in Finnish)
  13. 1 2 "Warwick Olney Fife". Operabase . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  14. 1 2 "Tosca at Sydney Opera House tickets". Opera Australia . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  15. ↑ "Rusalka at Sydney Opera House tickets". Opera Australia . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  16. ↑ "690th Tokyo Subscription Concerts". Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  17. ↑ "Carmina Burana (2023)". Melbourne Symphony Orchestra . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  18. ↑ "Simone Young conducts Gurrelieder (2023)". Sydney Symphony Orchestra . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  19. 1 2 "Warwick Fife". Queensland Symphony Orchestra . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  20. ↑ "Die Walküre, (2020) Orchestra of the Music Makers" . Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  21. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe". Opera Australia . Retrieved 21 March 2025.
  22. ↑ Parris, Simon (17 February 2025). "Melbourne Opera: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg review". simonparrismaninchair.com. Retrieved 23 March 2025.
  23. ↑ McCallum, Peter (10 August 2017). "Parsifal review: Opera Australia's performance as close to ideal as possible". The Sydney Morning Herald .
  24. ↑ "Warwick Fyfe". Sydney Eisteddfod.
  25. ↑ "In Conversation with Warwick Fyfe". The Arts House.
  26. ↑ "Helpmann 2014 Awards: nominees and winners / opera and classical music". Archived from the original on 20 March 2024. Retrieved 12 March 2025.
  27. ↑ "Green Room Awards Association 1984–2020 Nominees and recipients", p. 54 Retrieved3 April 2025.
  28. ↑ "2023 Green Room Awards winners", 30 May 2023, australianstage.com.au
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