# 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.

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