Warwick Fyfe, Opera Singer

Warwick Fyfe, Opera SingerWarwick Fyfe, Opera SingerWarwick Fyfe, Opera Singer

About Warwick

Background and Education

Born in Canberra, Australia, Warwick Fyfe is a Helpmann Award winning Australasian / International opera singer and Churchill Fellow. He is one of Australia’s most highly respected singers and exponents of the Wagnerian repertoire. Warwick is an alumnus of Narrabundah College, Canberra School of Music and the Victoria College of Arts (Melbourne University). His voice encompasses the Helden Bass Baritone range. 

Awards

Winston Churchill Fellowship; Helpmann Award; Green Room Awards; The Bayreuth Scholarship; Performing Arts WA award for outstanding achievement by an interstate artist; McDonald’s Aria; Heinz Australian Youth Aria; Leopold Julian Kronenberg Foundation Award (Stanislaw Moniuszko International Vocal Competition,Warsaw); Dame Mabel Brookes Memorial Fellowship; The Austral SalonScholarship; The Mabel Kent Scholarship; Bayreuth Bursary

Opera Repertoire

Title rôles in Falstaff, Rigoletto, Bluebeard. Wagner roles include: Wotan, Dutchman, Alberich (Ring Cycle), Hans Sachs (Meistersinger); Vodnik (Rusalka); Amonasro (Aida); Athanaël (Thaïs); Sancho Panza (Don Quichotte); Paolo (Simon Boccanegra); Four Villains (Tales of Hoffmann); Mandryka (Arabella); Faninal (Rosenkavalier); Fra Melitone (Forza del Destino); Papageno (Magic Flute) Dr Schon / Jack the Ripper (Lulu); Bartolo (Il Barbiere Di Siviglia); Dr Bartolo ( Marriage of Figaro); Leporello (Don Giovanni); Fasolt (Rheingold) and many many more.



Professional History and Concert Work

Professional Experience

Professional Experience

Professional Experience


Victoria State Opera Schools Company 1992


Victoria State Opera Young Artist Program 1995

Opera Australia Young Artist Program 1998


Opera Australia Principal


Senior Principal Artist, Opera Australia 2013-2014


International Freelance Artist

2014 to present











Concert Repertoire

Professional Experience

Professional Experience


Bach, Ein Deutsches Requiem. Melbourne Bach Choir.

Bach, St John Passion. Melbourne

Bach, St Matthew Passion. Canberra

Bach, B Minor Mass. Canberra

Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle. Monash Academy. 

Beethoven 9.  SSO, MSO, WASO., 

Beethoven, Mass in C. Melbourne.

Beethoven, Fidelio (WASO)

Dvorak, Stabat Mater (Willoughby Symphony)

Mahler 8. (OMM, Sing)

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Bach, Ein Deutsches Requiem. Melbourne Bach Choir.

Bach, St John Passion. Melbourne

Bach, St Matthew Passion. Canberra

Bach, B Minor Mass. Canberra

Bartók, Bluebeard's Castle. Monash Academy. 

Beethoven 9.  SSO, MSO, WASO., 

Beethoven, Mass in C. Melbourne.

Beethoven, Fidelio (WASO)

Dvorak, Stabat Mater (Willoughby Symphony)

Mahler 8. (OMM, Sing)

Orff, Carmina Burana SSO , MSO. QSO, ASO.NZSO.

Handel, Messiahs: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart.

Missa Solemnis. SPO

Rachmaninoff, The Bells. (WASO)

Rossini, Stabat Mater. (SSO),

Szymanowski, Stabat Mater. (Melbourne Bach Choir) 

Schoenberg, Gurrelieder. SSO

Verd, Requiem WASO, QSO, WAYO

Wagner, Rheingold, OMM (Sing)

Wagner, Walküre. WASO

Wagner; Parsifal OA

Siegfried, SSO



Opera Reviews

Professional Experience

Opera Reviews


"“The cast, which could not be faulted, was dominated by Warwick Fyfe’s Hans Sachs (his role début) and Christopher Hillier’s Beckmesser: cobbler and town clerk at their most crafty and vexatious, but also vocally strong and persuasive, as befits two of the more venerable master singers. Fyfe, who never tired, was the ideal Sachs, his cre


"“The cast, which could not be faulted, was dominated by Warwick Fyfe’s Hans Sachs (his role début) and Christopher Hillier’s Beckmesser: cobbler and town clerk at their most crafty and vexatious, but also vocally strong and persuasive, as befits two of the more venerable master singers. Fyfe, who never tired, was the ideal Sachs, his creative poetic soul always sensed from a more rough-shod exterior. Were he an actual pair of shoes, they would be sturdy walkers rather than patent leather. Fyfe lent strength and dignity to his role, most of all in his Fliederand Wahn monologues, but also brought a touch of welcome vulnerability in his two lyrical encounters with Eva.” Michael Shmith, ABR 17/02/2025 




Don't forget to check out my occasional Blog, at the very end of this  website. It contains information about my engagements, reviews, musings. 









PHOTO CREDIT:

Robin Halls





Favourite Opera Rôles

Hans Sachs . With Lee Abramson as Eva. Melbourne Opera Company 2025.

    Reviews

    Verdi Requiem

    Verdi Requiem

    Verdi Requiem

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra

    Under the baton of Maestro Umberto Clerici


    “Baritone Warwick Fyfe was eminently suited to the role, his sonorous, robust tone as rich as figgy pudding. His rendition of the haunting Confutatis (When the Cursed) was magnificent, and the combination of his bass, the chorus and the trumpets during Tuba Mirum was t

    Queensland Symphony Orchestra

    Under the baton of Maestro Umberto Clerici


    “Baritone Warwick Fyfe was eminently suited to the role, his sonorous, robust tone as rich as figgy pudding. His rendition of the haunting Confutatis (When the Cursed) was magnificent, and the combination of his bass, the chorus and the trumpets during Tuba Mirum was thrilling.” Dr Gemma Regan, Limelight. 5/10/2025














    Photo by Dr. Bruce Caldwell 

    Gurrelieder

    Verdi Requiem

    Verdi Requiem

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra

    Under the baton of Maestra Simone Young. 


    “Australian bass-baritone Warwick Fyfe's performance of a part that has been taken by actors like Werner Klemperer (son of the conductor, Otto) or by ex-singers (Schoenberg apparently mulled over the idea of a retired tenor) was magisterial – full of illuminating gesture an

    Sydney Symphony Orchestra

    Under the baton of Maestra Simone Young. 


    “Australian bass-baritone Warwick Fyfe's performance of a part that has been taken by actors like Werner Klemperer (son of the conductor, Otto) or by ex-singers (Schoenberg apparently mulled over the idea of a retired tenor) was magisterial – full of illuminating gesture and direct communication (helping us to ‘see’, for example, the web that the summer wind tore away). Toward the end it was if Fyfe was longing to sing, a moving yearning that led logically into a powerful choral conclusion, testament to music’s ability to deliver the most decisively powerful climaxes.” Gordon Williams, Operawire. 24/03/2024


    https://operawire.com/sydney-symphony-orchestra-2024-review-gurrelieder/#google_vignette


    https://operawire.com/sydney-symphony-orchestra-2024-review-gurrelieder/#google_vignette

    Siegfried

    Verdi Requiem

    Siegfried

    Sydney Symphony Orhestra

    Under the baton of Maestra Simone Young


    “Siegel’s might be a hard act to follow, but baritone Warwick Fyfe more than rises to the challenge as Mime’s brother Alberich. Here we have two of the world’s best Nibelung, and like Siegel, Fyfe has made his role his own (including during all three stagings of the Ring Cycle

    Sydney Symphony Orhestra

    Under the baton of Maestra Simone Young


    “Siegel’s might be a hard act to follow, but baritone Warwick Fyfe more than rises to the challenge as Mime’s brother Alberich. Here we have two of the world’s best Nibelung, and like Siegel, Fyfe has made his role his own (including during all three stagings of the Ring Cycle by Opera Australia in 2013 Both enunciate perfectly, extracting every ounce of textual information Wagner embedded in his libretto.

    And most importantly, they rid the Nibelung of the farcical and antisemitic traits often imposed on them, restoring a gravitas that befits the race after which Wagner’s tetralogy is named. It is, after all, Alberich’s curse that propels the Ring Cycle to its inevitable conclusion.”

    Jansson J Antmann. Limelight, 13/11/2025


    2016 (https://limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/review-das-rheingold-opera-australia/) and 2023 (https://limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/das-rheingold-opera-australia/). 


    (https://limelight-arts.com.au/reviews/live-review-with-video-das-rheingold-opera-australia/), 

    More favourites

    As Amonasro, in Aida. Helsinki 2019

      Representation and Contacts

      Representation

      Patrick Togher, Director

      Patrick Togher Artists’ Management 

      109A Burradoo Rd

      Burradoo NSW 2576


      Email: patrick@patricktogher.com

      Mobile: 0411 129 690 (Patrick Togher)

      Website: http://www.patricktogher.com


      Natalie De Biasi: Artist Manager

      natalie@patricktogher.com   0403 770 602


      Paull-Anthony Keightley: Artist Manager

      Paull@patricktogher.com 0433 043 502


      Amelia Berry: Assistant Artist Manager


      A member of international Artist Managers’ Association (IAMA) http://www.iamaworld.com


      A member of Opera Managers’ Association International http://www.operamanagers.org

      https://www.patricktogher.com/warwick-fyfe/ 


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      PTAM 



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