"Adrian Dwyer is simply a superb Mime in every way, vocally and dramatically, virtually a comic mime in his physicality. He is a tall, good-looking, and lanky man with a lovely voice and yet you believe it when Siegfried refers to him as an ugly dwarf."
- Playstosee
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Born in Melbourne, the British-Australian tenor Adrian Dwyer has appeared at many of the world's greatest Opera Houses, gaining international recognition for his wide-ranging vocal ability and vivid theatrical presence in works spanning from the 19th Century to the present day. Engagements have taken him to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real (Madrid), Teatro Massimo (Palermo), Opernhaus Zürich, Dutch National Opera (Amsterdam), Welsh National Opera, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf), the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Israeli Opera, English National Opera, Opéra de Toulon, Scottish Opera, Irish National Opera, Cape Town Opera, Opera Queensland, Opera North, Birmingham Opera, Northern Ireland Opera, the State Opera of South Australia, as well as the Amsterdam, Edinburgh International and Aldeburgh Festivals.
An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, recent engagements have included Gerald Barry's The Intelligence Park for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, John Adams’ The Flowering Tree for Opera Queensland, Thomas Adés’ Powder Her Face for the inaugural production of Irish National Opera, Gerald Barry's Alice's Adventures Under Ground at Theater Magdeburg, as well as the World Premieres of Michael Gallen's Elsewhere with Ensemble Miroirs Étendus at the Abbey Theatre (Dublin) and Antony Bolton's The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko (title role) for Grange Park Opera.
On the Concert platform he has appeared in the BBC Proms, with Orchestra de Paris at the Opéra Comique and Theatre Mogador (Paris), with München Runfunkorchester at the Prinzregententheater (Munich), with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Ulster Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic and Concert Orchestras, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the RTE Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestras of Melbourne, Queensland and Adelaide, as well as in the Esplanade Concert Hall (Singapore) and Opera City Concert Hall (Tokyo).
A prizewinner in the Australian Singing Competition, he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the National Opera Studio London, with additional scholarships to the Ravinia Festival (Chicago), Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and the Bayreuth Festival. He made his professional debut in Los Angeles as Rodolfo in Baz Luhrmann’s production of La Bohème (winning an “Ovation” Award for Outstanding Performance).
His repertoire encompasses many of the most stratospheric and challenging roles in the tenor repertoire, earning acclaim for roles such as the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's Golden Cockerel and Mime in Wagner's der Ring des Nibelungen. Engagements in season 2024/45 included debuts in Düsseldorf as Sandy/1st Officer in Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse, at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Gerald Barry's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, as well as returning to Longborough Festival as der Meisterjünger/Hitler in Avner Dorman's Wahnfried, and to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as the tenor soloist in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. In 25/26 he made a role and house debut in Zemlinsky's Der Zwerg (title role) at Opéra de Lausanne, reprised the Carmina Burana at the Royal Festival Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, as well as covering in the Makropoulos Case for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
The 2026-27 season will again feature his interpretation of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana; firstly for his debut at the Cité de la Musique Paris under Simon Halsey, then in London's Royal Albert Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Bach Choir under Christopher Warren-Green, and finally at Philharmonic Hall with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Domingo Hindoyan. He will also return to Longborough Festival Opera for his role debut as David in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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