Helpmann Award for Best Male Performer in an Opera

The Helpmann Award for Best Male Performer in an Opera is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) (the trade name for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in Australia. The accolade is handed out at the annual Helpmann Awards, which celebrates achievements in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.^[1]

Winners and nominees

In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight.

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.

• Source:^[2][3]

Year	Actor	Production	Character(s)
2001 (1st)
	Grant Smith	The Eighth Wonder	The Architect
	Jonathan Summers	Simon Boccanegra	Simone Boccanegra
	Jonathan Summers	Wozzeck	Wozzeck
	Timothy DuFore	Così fan tutte	Guglielmo
2002 (2nd)
	Jonathan Summers	Parsifal	Amfortas
	Glenn Winslade	Lohengrin	Lohengrin
	Angus Wood	The Gypsy Princess	Count Boni Káncsiánu
	Bruce Martin	Batavia	Francisco Pelsaert
2003 (3rd)
	Peter Rose	Der Rosenkavalier	Baron Ochs auf Lerchenau
	Glen Winsdale	Lohengrin	Lohengrin
	Julian Gavin	Andrea Chénier	Andrea Chénier
	Michael Lewis	Il trovatore	Count di Luna
2004 (4th)
	Teddy Tahu Rhodes	Dead Man Walking	Joseph De Rocher
	Dennis O'Neill	Cavalleria rusticana	Turiddu
	Dennis O'Neill	Pagliacci	Canio
	Jonathan Summers	Otello	Iago
2005 (5th)
	John Wegner	The Ring Cycle	Wotan
	Peter Rose	Der Rosenkavalier	Baron Ochs
	Michael Lewis	Madeline Lee	The Major
	Peter Coleman-Wright	Tosca	Baron Scarpia
2006 (6th)
	Philip Langridge	Death in Venice	Gustav von Aschenbach
	Teddy Tahu Rhodes	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni
	David Walker	Flight	Refugee
2007 (7th)
	Jonathan Summers	Rigoletto	Rigoletto
	Adam Goodburn	Satyagraha	Mahatma Gandhi
	Julian Gavin	Rusalka	The prince
	Tobias Cole	Giulio Cesare	Giulio Cesare
2008 (8th)
	Teddy Tahu Rhodes	Dead Man Walking	Joseph De Rocher
	John Wegner	Les Contes d'Hoffmann	Miracle, Dapertutto
	Peter Coleman-Wright	Arabella	Mandryka
	Jonathan Summers	Il trittico	Luigi
2009 (9th)
	John Wegner	Billy Budd	John Claggart
	Philip Langridge	Billy Budd	Captain Vere
	Jonathan Summers	Otello	Iago
	David Hansen	The Coronation of Poppea	Nerone
2010 (10th)
	Stuart Skelton	Peter Grimes	Peter Grimes
	John Wegner	Tosca	Baron Scarpia
	John Wegner	The Flying Dutchman	The Dutchman
	Peter Coleman-Wright	Bliss	Harry Joy
2011 (11th)
	John Wegner	La fanciulla del West	Jack Rance
	Peter Coleman-Wright	The Marriage of Figaro	Count Almaviva
	Teddy Tahu Rhodes	Tosca	Baron Scarpia
	John Bolton-Wood	The Bear	Grigory Stephanovich Smirnov
2012 (12th)
	Anthony Dean Griffey	Of Mice and Men	Lenny Small
	Jay Hunter Morris	Moby-Dick	Captain Ahab
	Rosario La Spina	Turandot	Calàf
	Gianluca Terranova	La traviata	Alfredo Germont
2013 (13th)
	John Wegner	Salome	John the Baptist
	Dmytro Popov	Carmen	Don José
	Giorgio Caoduro	Lucia di Lammermoor	Lord Enrico Ashton
	Byron Watson	Midnight Son	Ray
2014 (14th)
	Terje Stensvold	Melbourne Ring Cycle	Wotan/ The Wanderer
	Yonghoon Lee	Tosca	Mario Cavaradossi
	Riccardo Massi	La Forza del Destino	Don Alvaro
	Barry Ryan	Nixon in China	Richard Nixon
	Stefan Vinke	Melbourne Ring Cycle	Siegfried and The Rhinemaidens
2015 (15th)
	Michael Fabiano[4]	Faust	Faust
	Adam Diegel	Madama Butterfly	Pinkerton
	Christopher Purves	The Perfect American	Walt Disney
	Teddy Tahu Rhodes	Don Giovanni	Don Giovanni
	Claudio Sgura	Tosca	Scarpia
2016 (16th)
	Carlo Vistoli[5]	Agrippina
	Andrei Bondarenko	The Marriage of Figaro	Il Conte
	Ferruccio Furlanetto	Don Carlos	Philip II
	Yonghoon Lee	Turandot	Calaf
2017 (17th)
	Christopher Purves[6]	Saul	Saul
	Michael Honeyman	King Roger	King Roger
	Yonghoon Lee	Carmen	Don Jose
	George Petean	Simon Boccanegra	Boccanegra
2018 (18th)
	Allan Clayton[7]	Hamlet	Hamlet
	Kanen Breen	Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets	Wilhelm
	Ferruccio Furlanetto	Don Quichotte	Don Quichotte
	Barry Ryan	The Cunning Little Vixen	Forester
2019 (19th)
	Michael Honeyman[8]	Wozzeck	Wozzeck
	Aaron Blake	The Magic Flute	Tamino
	Michael Fabiano	Werther	Werther
	David Hansen	Artaserse	Arbace
	Simon Lobelson	Metamorphosis	Gregor