Born in Melbourne, Adrian Dwyer studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio, London. He has performed as a principal artist with the English National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Opera de Toulon, Cape Town Opera, Opera Queensland, the State Opera of South Australia et al, in productions by Francesca Zambello, Graham Vick, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, David Pountney, David Alden, Richard Jones, Elijah Moshinsky, David Freeman and Sir Thomas Allen.

He has a special affinity with the Slavic and German repertoire, most specifically the lyric roles of Janacek (Skuratov, Steva, Janek, Kudrjas, Mazal/Petrik), Wagner (Loge/Froh, Steuermann, David) and Tchaikowski (Lenskii, Vaudemont, Vakula), where he has been praised for his “gorgeously honey-toned” and “thrilling” voice. His performances last summer in the notoriously difficult role of Hagenbach in La Wally met unanimous critical acclaim, leading the London Times to write that “Adrian Dwyer tackled the stratospheric tenor role - a veritable Matterhorn in itself – with heroic stamina”. He was equally praised in creating the role of Edgar/Poor Tom in the world premiere of Promised End (Alexander Goehr) at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House Covent Garden.

He made his US debut as Rodolfo in Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème, winning a Los Angeles Stage Alliance Award for Outstanding Performance. Other engagements have included Macbeth, Excursions of Mr Broucek and Barbiere di Siviglia for Scottish Opera, Parsifal, The Passenger and Lucia di Lammermoor for English National Opera, From the House of the Dead, Broucek and Skin Deep for Opera North, Street Scene for Opera de Toulon, La Boheme for Cape Town Opera and in the Royal Albert Hall, La Traviata and Barbiere for Opera Queensland, Nabucco for the State Opera of South Australia, Otello for Birmingham Opera, Koanga at Sadler's Wells and Die Zauberflote for Opera Theatre Company and Opera Ireland. He has also performed at major festivals throughout the UK (Opera Holland Park, Garsington, Grange Park, Buxton), France (Les Azuriales, Belle Ile) and Portugal.

He regularly works with eminent conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Richard Armstrong, Richard Bonynge, Jane Glover, Marc Soustrot, David Parry, Ulf Schirmer, Elgar Howarth, Oleg Caetani, Mark Wigglesworth, Paul Daniel, David Stern, Nicholas Braithwaite, Martin Andre, Richard Farnes and Stephen Barlow, and has appeared at many of the world’s greatest concert halls, including the Opera Comique and Theatre Mogador (Paris), Prince Regent Theatre (Munich), National Concert Hall (Tokyo), Usher Hall (Edinburgh), and in England at the Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall, the Sage Gateshead, Glyndebourne and Philharmonic Hall Liverpool with orchestras such as the Orchestra de Paris, Orchestra Leonard da Vinci, Munchen Rundfunkorchester, the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the RTE Symphony Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestras of Melbourne, Queensland and Adelaide.

Future highlights include appearances at English National Opera, Opera North, the Edinburgh International Festival, the Holland Festival (Amsterdam) and Northern Ireland Opera, as well as concert and oratorio performances with the Munchen Rundfunk Orchester, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.

His discography includes Gardiner/Trio in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Beadle in Sondheim's Sweeney Todd with the Munchen Rundfunkorchester under Ulf Schirmer and Cherevichki with Garsington Opera under Elgar Howarth. He has also broadcast regularly for BBC Radio 3.