SUNDAY 17 MAY 2026
RICHARD WAGNER’S BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Lee Abrahmsen and Warwick Fyfe in Meistersinger 2025,
photo by Robin Halls
Glen Amer
2.00pm, 17 May 2026:
Wagner’s Birthday concert
with Warwick Fyfe & Lee Abrahmsen
& Glen Amer at the piano
The concert will be followed
by bubbles and birthday cake.
Venue:
Mosman Art Gallery
1 Art Gallery Way
Mosman NSW
Tickets:
Members $50, Non-members $60, full-time students $25
ABOUT WARWICK FYFE
WSNSW is very proud to have Heldenbaritone Warwick Fyfe as a member. He has been an audience favourite for many years in a wide variety of roles from the entire operatic repertoire. He has performed the following Wagner roles professionally: Holländer and Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer; Wolfram and Reinmar in Tannhäuser; Heerrufer in Lohengrin; Wotan/Wanderer, Alberich, Hunding and Fasolt in Der Ring; Hans Sachs, Beckmesser, Kothner and Ortel in Meistersinger; and Klingsor in Parsifal. He will be adding two more roles soon but is not yet at liberty to discuss this. His most recent Wagner performances were as Alberich in Siegfried for Sydney Symphony and a Wagner Gala with Lee Abrahmsen and the Corpus Medicorum Orchestra under the baton of Fabian Russell. He will perform Alberich in Götterdämmerung for Sydney Symphony at the end of this year.
ABOUT LEE ABRAHMSEN
Lee Abrahmsen is a multi-award-winning Australian soprano celebrated for her work on both the operatic stage and the concert platform. She has appeared with leading companies including Opera Australia, Opera Queensland, Victorian Opera, Melbourne Opera, Sydney, Queensland and Melbourne Symphonies, Omega Ensemble, Corpus Medicorum and internationally at the Edinburgh Festival, St Martin-in-the-Fields in London, and venues across China and Japan. With more than 45 principal roles to her name, Lee has sung nearly every major soprano role in the Wagner canon, establishing her as Australia’s most sought-after Wagnerian singer of this generation. Her acclaimed performances include Isolde in Tristan und Isolde, Brünnhilde in Siegfried, Sieglinde in Die Walküre, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer, Eva in Die Meistersinger, and the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier – all for Melbourne Opera. Other highlights include the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly (Opera Australia), Leonora in Fidelio and title role in Tosca. Her awards include the Herald Sun Aria, the Opera Awards Royal Overseas League Award, Acclaim Awards Italian Award, Opera Chaser’s Best Performer for Isolde, and multiple Melbourne Greenroom awards nominations. A dedicated educator, she is the founder of IVT (Italian Vocal Technique), a North Melbourne-based training and performance initiative devoted to cultivating expressive, technically disciplined singers. Through IVT, Lee works with emerging and advanced artists alike, providing specialised bel canto instruction and curating performance opportunities.
ABOUT GLEN AMER
Glenn Amer is a professional classical and jazz singer, concert pianist and organist.
He studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music between 1986 and 1993. At the age of thirteen, he was invited to London to study with, and participate in the studios of the late Geoffrey Parsons (piano), and Erich Vietheer (voice). From 1997 to 2004 he was on the staff at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney as both a voice teacher and vocal coach/accompanist. He has been on the staff of the Australian National Academy of Music, Pacific Opera (as Artistic and Musical Director), and Opera Australia (as both conductor and pianist). He was also Head of Piano at the Hume Conservatorium. Glenn has been the Director of Music and Organist at St Andrew’s Congregational Church, Balmain, St Paul’s Anglican Church, Burwood and St Peter’s Anglican Church, Cremorne.
For many years, Glenn was the exclusive accompanist to soprano Rita Hunter, CBE and dramatic tenor Horst Hoffmann. Glenn also regularly appeared in concert with Yvonne Kenny and David Hobson.
Glenn appears as a headline entertainer on all of the most prestigious cruise lines. “His popular, Liberace style of piano playing is always extremely popular with his audiences who are also impressed with his Robert Goulet/ Mario Lanza style singing!” He has also appeared in the jazz world with renowned Diva, Su Cruickshank and popular violinist Ian Cooper.