Student Years
A period of study at the Cork School of Music with veteran tenor John Carolan began in the autumn of 1992. Nyle won several prizes at Cork's Feis Maitiu including Male Solo and Music Theatre. His first part in Cork's Everyman Palace as the Mayor of the Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz was followed by his first major opera role as Pish Tush in the IORC production of The Mikado in Cork Opera House. Soon after began a long association with Shannon Heritage in Bunratty, Knappogue and Dunguaire Castles. He sang at the Rose of Tralee International Festival at the Dome to several million television viewers world wide. At the Rose Festival, he met Mr Gay Byrne. He later sang the role of The Pirate King in the live broadcast of The Pirates of Penzance on The Gay Byrne Show and songs from Oklahoma! and The Gondoliers on The Late Late Show. Thanks to financial support from Shannon Heritage, Nyle moved to Dublin to further his opera studies at the Leinster Opera Studio with Dr Veronica Dunne. During this time, he sang at the Galway Arts Festival. He won opera solo, duet and music theatre competitions at the Centenary Feis Ceoil and was invited to sing with Rathmines & Rathgar and Glasnevin Musical Societies. He sang the role of Morales in Bernadette Greevy's production of Carmen in the National Concert Hall and Second Armed Man in the then Dublin Grand Opera Society's production of The Magic Flute. He met and sang for former President Mary Robinson, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and at the West Belfast Arts Festival, Gerry Adams. He also sang in many concerts and recitals for RTÉ programmes for producers Kevin Hough and Jane Carty.
Nyle completed two years postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music in 1998, where he graduated summa cum laude. During this time, he travelled to Ireland to sing, most notably La bohème in Cork Opera House, La traviata in the National Concert Hall and The Merry Widow in University Concert Hall, Limerick. Performances in the UK included Don Giovanni in Cambridge and Albert Herring and Le rossignol in London, as well as concerts for Queen Elizabeth II, her family and members of the British Parliament. In competition, Nyle won the Mary Garden International Singing Competition in Aberdeen, the 3FM Prize in the inaugural Veronica Dunne Singing Competition and was finalist in the Scottish Opera singing Competition.
Nyle was approached by Brian Dickie to sing Don Pedro in Béatrice et Bénédict in Baden-Baden and Paris with European Opera. He returned to Dublin once more to sing in Salome and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District with the newly renamed Opera Ireland. A year of final study followed in Switzerland at the Zurich Opera House where he sang Baculus in Der Wildschütz.
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