Hew Wagner
2024 Artist
Hew Wagner is a tenor based in Melbourne, Australia. He is an Honours Graduate of the Elder Conservatorium of Music and was a member of the James and Diana Ramsey Foundation Young Artist and Emerging Artist Program at the State Opera of South Australia. He has performed with the State Opera of South Australia, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Lyster Opera, Lyric Opera of Melbourne, Australian International Opera Company, CitiOpera, Emotionworks Cut Opera, and Co-Opera, including tours of regional Australia, China, and Malaysia.
Stage roles include Lindoro in L'italiana in Algeri, Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nero in L’incoronazione di Poppea, Ted Pickles in Cloudstreet, Balthasar Zorn in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Hoffman in Tales of Hoffman, Kornelis in La Princess Jeune, Silvio in Le Docteur Miracle, Luke in The Handmaid’s Tale, Ruiz in Il Trovatore, Marco in The Gondoliers, Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Count Ludovic in Passion.
Roles covered include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Ernesto in Don Pasquale, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore, Camille de Rosillon in The Merry Widow, Eisenstein and Alfred in Die Fledermaus, and Kashchey in Kashchey the Immortal. Hew has performed as the Evangelist and tenor soloist in Bach’s St Matthew Passion, and as the tenor soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Mozart’s Requiem, and Orff’s Carmina Burana.
Hew was nominated for a South Australian Screen Award for Best Performance for the short film Captivated: The Musical, has performed in the Adelaide Cabaret and Cabaret Fringe Festivals, and has participated in masterclasses taken by Nicholas Braithwaite, Adam Guettel, and Jason Robert Brown.