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 and Emerging Artist Program at the State Opera of South Australia. In 2024, Hew was a participant in the Lisa Gasteen National Opera Program. 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 Belmonte in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 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 has performed in the Adelaide Cabaret and Cabaret Fringe Festivals, and participated in masterclasses taken by Nicholas Braithwaite, Adam Guettel, and Jason Robert Brown.