Jake Lyle

Baritone

From Gladstone, Central Queensland, 22-year-old baritone Jake Lyle made his debut with Opera Australia in the title role in The Phantom of the Opera, Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour in 2026.

Jake graduated with a Bachelor of Music (Honours) in Classical Voice from Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University under the tuition of Dr Margaret Schindler.

During his studies at QCGU, Jake was awarded the Professor Emeritus Jan Delpratt AM Prize in Classical Voice (2025), the Wagner Society Queensland Inc Award (2025), the Donald Penman Prize (2024), and the Elizabeth Muir Undergraduate Memorial Award (2022), as well as the Nora Baird Memorial Fund Audition Bursary (2022). He was Runner-Up in the Alton Budd Memorial Award (2024) before winning the competition in its final year in 2025.

At just 20 years of age, Jake was selected as a finalist in the IFAC Handa Australian Singing Competition (2024). In 2025, he was named Emerging Artist in Residence with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, performing operatic arias on tour to Townsville and Mackay before making his Queensland Performing Arts Centre Concert Hall debut later that year.

Jake has performed extensively with the opera program at QCGU. His roles include Ulisse in Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi), directed by Constantine Costi; Tonio in Pagliacci (Leoncavallo); Taddeo in L’italiana in Algeri (Rossini) as part of the Val Machin Opera Scenes program; and Marco in Gianni Schicchi (Puccini), directed by Lindy Hume. In 2023, he performed the role of Jupiter in scenes from Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach), as well as in the mainstage production Underworld: An Operatic Journey to Hell and Back, directed and conceived by Michael Gow.