Warwick Fyfe
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Warwick Fyfe | |
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Born | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia | 27 September 1969
Occupation | Operatic baritone |
Spouse | Dr Ruth Frances Fyfe |
Awards | Helpmann Award 2014 for Best Supporting Actor |
Website | www |
Warwick Olney Fyfe (born 27 September 1969, in Canberra) is an Australian operatic heldenbaritone. 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 he sang Klingsor in a concert performance of Richard Wagner's Parsifal starring Jonas Kaufmann with Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House.[2]
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 Philharmonic, the Tianjin Symphony Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Adelaide Symphony, Tasmanian Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Western Australian Symphony; the Auckland Philharmonic, 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][failed verification]
Recordings
- Prokofiev, The Love for Three Oranges (Chandos CD)
- R. Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier (Opera Australia CD/DVD)
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[4]
- Bayreuth Scholarship 2007[5]
- McDonald's Aria Sydney 1998[6]
References
- ^ "Warwick Fyfe". Opera Australia.
- ^ McCallum, Peter (10 August 2017). "Parsifal review: Opera Australia's performance as close to ideal as possible". The Sydney Morning Herald.
- ^ "Warwick Fyfe Profile". Ooppera – Baletti.
- ^ "Past nominees and winners". Helpmann Awards.
- ^ "In Conversation with Warwick Fyfe". The Arts House.
- ^ "Warwick Fyfe". Sydney Eisteddfod.
External links
- Official website
- Opera Base
- Aus Stage career summary
- https://melbourneopera.com/project/bendigo-ring-cycle/
- https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/arts-update/101-arts-update/10205-das-rheingold-and-die-walkuere-wagner-s-ring-begins-in-bendigo-by-peter-rose
- melbourne-opera-siegfried-and-gotterdammerung-continues-bendigo-ring-cycle
- https://simonparrismaninchair.com/2023/03/27/melbourne-opera-die-walkure-bendigo-2023/
- https://hancockartists.com/2022/02/20/warwick-fyfe-sings-wotan-reviews/
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- 1969 births
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- Living people
- Australian operatic baritones
- 20th-century Australian male opera singers
- 21st-century Australian male opera singers
- Helpmann Award winners