Warwick Fyfe

Baritone

In 2022/2023, Warwick Fyfe sang Scarpia (Tosca) for West Australian Opera, The Herald (Lohengrin) for Opera Australia and Wotan (Die Walküre) for Melbourne Opera. In 2023, he returned to OA as Amonasro (Aida) and Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen), to Melbourne Opera as Wotan/The Wanderer in their landmark Ring Cycle and was soloist with the Melbourne and West Australian Symphony Orchestras. 2024 appearances include Scarpia with Opera Australia, Water Sprite (Rusalka) with West Australian Opera and Gurreleider with the Sydney Symphony; in 2025, he makes his début as Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) for Melbourne Opera, sings Vodnik in Rusalka for Opera Australia and Alberich (Siegfried) in concert performances for Sydney Symphony.

A Helpmann Award-winning artist, Warwick is considered one of Australia’s finest baritones.  Other appearances include Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Sancho Panza (Don Quichotte), Geronio (Il turco in Italia), Barone di Trombonok (Il viaggio a Reims)  and Klingsor (Parsifal) for Opera Australia, Alberich (Das Rheingold) for the Japan Philharmonic and Tianjin Symphony Orchestras, Peter (Hansel and Gretel) in Singapore, Athanaël (Thaïs) and Amonasro for Finnish National Opera, Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Victorian Opera, Wotan (Die Walküre) in Singapore, Pizarro (Fidelio) in Melbourne and Perth, Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) in Adelaide and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the Melbourne Symphony.

Earlier appearances for Opera Australia have included the title roles in Rigoletto, Falstaff and Der fliegende Holländer; Mandryka (Arabella); The Four Villains (The Tales of Hoffmann); Dr Schön (Lulu); Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier); Wolfram (Tannhäuser); Papageno (The Magic Flute); Germont (La traviata); Leporello (Don Giovanni) and Pizarro (Fidelio).  

Warwick was the recipient of a Helpmann Award for his 2013 performance as Alberich in the Melbourne Ring Cycle. In 2015, he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study Wagnerian vocal technique in Germany, the USA and the UK.

Concert engagements include performances with the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland, West Australian, Adelaide and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras; the Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Music Makers (Singapore); Orchestra Wellington (NZ); Auckland Philharmonia; Melbourne Chorale; Sydney Philharmonia; Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society; Melbourne Bach Choir and Canberra Choral Society.  Repertoire includes Bach: St Matthew Passion and Mass in B Minor; Bartok:  Bluebeard’s Castle; Beethoven: Symphony No.9; Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem; Handel: Messiah; Mahler: Symphony No 8; Mozart: Requiem; Orff: Carmina Burana.