Nyle Wolfe (born October 1971) is an Irish operatic baritone, who has sung with the

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in Germany and

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. His first solo album ''Moodswings'' was released in Ireland in 2007. Wolfe trained as a singer at the Cork School of Music, Leinster School of Music & Drama, Dublin, and the

Royal Academy of Music The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, England, is one of the oldest music schools in the UK, founded in 1822 by John Fane and Nicolas-Charles Bochsa. It received its royal charter in 1830 from King George IV with the support of the firs ...

, London, followed by further studies at the Opera Studio at

Zurich Opera House The Zurich Opera House () is an opera house in the Swiss city of Zurich. Located at the Sechseläutenplatz, it has been the home of the Zurich Opera since 1891, and also houses the Bernhard-Theater Zürich. It is also home to Ballett Zürich. I ...

. He sang Don Pedro in '' Béatrice et Bénédict'' in

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and Paris with European Opera. Kutsch, Karl J. and Riemens, Leo (2004)
"Wolfe, Nyle"
. ''

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'', p. 5090. Walter de Gruyter. In Dublin he sang in ''

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'' and '' Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'' with Opera Ireland. At the Zurich Opera House he sang Baculus in '' Der Wildschütz''. In 2000, Wolfe was engaged as principal lyric baritone at the

where he sang in many performances, including Dandini in ''

La Cenerentola ("Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant") is an operatic in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, based on the libretti written by Charles-Guillaume Étienne for the opera '' Cendrillon'' with music by Nico ...

'', Belcore in ''

L'elisir d'amore ''L'elisir d'amore'' (; ''The Elixir of Love'') is a (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's (1831). ...

'', Guglielmo in ''

Così fan tutte (''Women are like that, or The School for Lovers''), Köchel catalogue, K. 588, is an opera buffa in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was first performed on 26 January 1790 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria. The libretto was written ...

'', Figaro in ''

The Barber of Seville ''The Barber of Seville, or The Useless Precaution'' ( ) is an ''opera buffa'' (comic opera) in two acts composed by Gioachino Rossini with an Italian libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's French comedy ' ...

'' and in the German premiere of Roland Moser's ''Avatar''. At the

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Festival he sang the world premiere of Alexander Mullenbach's ''Die Todesbrücke'' which was revived at the Théâtre National de Luxemburg. Wolfe was also guest with other opera companies, including Opera Ireland for the Irish premiere of

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's '' The Silver Tassie'' and in Cologne in ''

La finta giardiniera ' ("The Pretend Garden-Girl"), Köchel catalogue, K. 196, is an Italian-language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on 13 January at the in M ...

''. In November 2006, Nyle returned to Cork Opera House as Figaro in

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's ''Barber of Seville'' with Opera 2005. The production was nominated for a theatre award by ''

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''. He released his album ''Moodwings'' in 2007 and went on a national concert tour of Ireland."Arts bits and pieces: A Nightingale Sang"
'' Limerick Post'' (5 February 2009) In 2010 gave a recital at the National Concert Hall Dublin, appeared in a puppet driven production of ''

The Magic Flute ''The Magic Flute'' (, ), K. 620, is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. It is a ''Singspiel'', a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on ...

'' in Cork, ''Romeo and Juliet'' in Dublin, and sang the role of Sciarrone in ''

Tosca ''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1 ...

''—Opera Ireland's last production before its closure.

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Nyle Wolfe
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfe, Nyle 1971 births Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music 20th-century Irish male opera singers Operatic baritones Living people Alumni of Cork Institute of Technology 21st-century Irish male opera singers