Warwick Fyfe

Baritone

Helpmann Award-winning Australian baritone Warwick Fyfe is widely acclaimed for his powerful stage presence and vocal versatility across a diverse repertoire.

In 2023, he returned to Opera Australia as Amonasro (Aida) and Alberich (Der Ring des Nibelungen), and to Melbourne Opera as Wotan/The Wanderer in their landmark Ring Cycle. His 2024 engagements included Scarpia (Tosca) for Opera Australia, Vodnik (Rusalka) for West Australian Opera, and Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder with the Sydney Symphony. In 2025, he makes his role début as Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg) for Melbourne Opera, and performs Vodnik for Opera Australia, Ferrando (Il trovatore) for West Australian Opera, and Alberich (Siegfried) in concert with the Sydney Symphony.

Other notable 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; Athanaël (Thaïs) and Amonasro for Finnish National Opera; Bartolo (Il barbiere di Siviglia) for Victorian Opera; Peter (Hansel and Gretel) and Wotan (Die Walküre) in Singapore; Bottom (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for the Adelaide Festival; and Pizarro (Fidelio) in Melbourne and Perth.

A long-standing principal artist with Opera Australia, Warwick’s past roles include the title roles in Rigoletto, Falstaff and Der fliegende Holländer, as well as 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.

His extensive concert repertoire spans work with all major Australian symphony orchestras, as well as the Warsaw Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Orchestra of the Music Makers (Singapore), Orchestra Wellington and Auckland Philharmonia. Highlights include Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Mass in B Minor, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, and Mozart’s Requiem.

Warwick received a Helpmann Award in 2013 for his portrayal of Alberich in the Melbourne Ring Cycle and was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2015 to study Wagnerian technique in Germany, the UK and the USA.