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Australian baritone Barry Ryan graduated with honours from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 1981. His many awards for singing include the Shell Aria, the New York Metropolitan Auditions, Marten Bequest for Singing, the Vienna State Opera Award and the Green Room Award.
Barry Ryan has performed with Europe’s leading opera companies including the Royal Opera Covent Garden, La Scala Milan, the Opera Comique in Paris, the Paris Opera Bastille, the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf, the Flemish Opera Antwerp, the Komische Oper Berlin, Basel Opera and the Otono Festival Opera Madrid. He was a principal artist with the Cologne Opera from 1988 to 1992 and in 1993 made his Australian Opera debut in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Since then, Barry Ryan has performed with opera companies throughout Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Barry Ryan has performed in concert throughout Europe, Australia and Asia and has been seen in televised performances of opera in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Australia. He has performed on radio for the BBC London, the ABC in Australia, the WDR in Germany, Norwegian Radio and Radio Tokyo.
He has performed under the batons of some of the world’s leading conductors, including, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Sir Charles Mackerras, Carlo Felice Cillario and Simone Young.
Barry Ryan is also a lecturer in Voice and Opera at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
For Opera Australia, he has recently performed Count di Luna in Il Trovatore and sang Wiebbe Hayes in Batavia. In 2005, Barry appeared as Tonio in Pagliacci for Canterbury Opera NZ, Melot in Tristan and Isolde for the Queensland Music Festival (a role he repeated for West Australian Opera in 2006) and appeared as baritone soloist with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in a Strauss gala. In 2007, he became a fulltime soloist with Opera Australia – roles for 2008 included Marcello (La bohème) and Sharpless (Madama Butterfly). 2009 engagements include Amonasro (Aida) and Sharpless for Opera Australia and Pizarro (Fidelio) for Opera Queensland.
...Barry Ryan’s Laca matches Höppner’s Jenufa outstandingly. From the electrifying malevolence of his very first outburst to his final transforming certainty. This is a performance to savour...
John Carmody, Sydney Sun Herald, 6.7.1998
...Barry Ryan was brilliant as Quint, the incarnation of evil. His extraordinary tenor voice possesses a dangerous tonal sensivity that gets under the skin...
Roman Hinke, Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin 19.9.1994
... The performance was faultlessly sung, the crown though belongs to Barry Ryan, the expressive tenor in the double role of Quint and the Prologue...
Die Welt, Berlin 19.8.1994
...Barry Ryan, as Archibald Grosvenor, quietly slipped onto the stage and proceeded to steal the show. His faultless acting and clear, limpid voice made this one of the best tenor performances seen in Perth in recent times...
Alan True, Opera Opera, April 1999
...The singing, the diction and performances of the ensemble were exemplary. Barry Ryan in particular sang memorably...
John Slavin, Herald Sun, 21.10.1996
...Her lover, the apprentice David, played by Barry Ryan, is one of the stars of this production. His lyric tenor is now ideal for David. He acts well and fairly sparkles through it...
David Gyger, Opera Australia, August 1993
...Barry Ryan was splendid as David, the apprentice. He looked and acted ideally and sang flawlessly...
John Carmody, Sydney Morning Herald, 7.5.1994
...Solo tenor Barry Ryan was superlative. I can see him going places...
Stuart Hille, Sunday Times, 3.11.1997
...a clever, mock-bland Rector by Barry Ryan, making an auspicious Covent Garden debut...
David Murray, Opera, 1996
...Barry Ryan was extremely impressive as Senta’s spurned lover, Erik. His Dream Narration is the turning point of the opera and Ryan made the character convincingly significant...
John Carmody, Sydney Sun Herald, 24.4.1996