Eddie Wade

Highlights include Peter Hansel und Gretel, Alcindoro La bohème, Baron Douphol La Traviata, Fouquier-Tinville Andrea Chénier and Julio in Thomas Ades’ The Exterminating Angel (Royal Opera House); Sharpless Madama Butterfly (Danish National Opera); Prince Arjuna Satyagraha, Mereia/Lepidus Caligula (English National Opera); Peter Hänsel und Gretel, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Melot Tristan und Isolde, Marcello La Boheme, Baron Douphol La Traviata, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte, Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Starek Jenufa (Welsh National Opera); Germont, Scarpia, Rigoletto and Tonio (France; Switzerland); Sharpless Madama Butterfly, title role Rigoletto, Grand Inquisitor/Don Alhambra del Bolero The Gondoliers, and the Executioner in the European premiere of James Macmillan’s Inés de Castro in Portugal (Scottish Opera); Sonora La Fanciulla del West & Donald Billy Budd (Opera North); Baron Douphol La Traviata (Nederlandse Reisopera; Glyndebourne Festival Opera & Glyndebourne on Tour); the title role Macbeth and Eustachio L’Assedio di Calais (ETO); Duclou Zazà (Opera Holland Park); Gunther Götterdämmerung (Longborough Festival Opera); Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte (Dorset Opera Festival); The Priate King Pirates of Penzance, Earl Mountararat Iolanthe, and Sir Marmaduke The Sorcerer (International G&S Festival).

An experienced performer on the concert platform both in the UK and internationally, his highlights include; Andrei Shchelkalov Boris Godunov (Philharmonia Orchestra/Royal Festival Hall); 2^nd Apprentice Wozzeck in Dortmund, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City (Philharmonia Orchestra); Notary Der Rosenkavalier (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Symphony Hall); Carmina Burana (RTÉ Concert Orchestra); Beethoven 9^th Symphony (London Philharmonic Orchestra/The Barbican); and Sciarrone Tosca at the Royal Albert Hall, and the Barbican (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra). Further concert repertoire includes Verdi Messa da Requiem, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Handel’s Messiah, Dvorak’s Te Deum, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. He has appeared on the operatic stage and concert platform with leading international conductors such as Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Mark Elder, Sir Antonio Pappano, Esa Pekka Salonen, Maurizio Benini, Carlo Rizzi, Philippe Auguin, Andris Nelsons, Jakub Hrůša and Mark Wigglesworth.

Recent and future engagement include Alcindoro La bohème & Fouquier-Tinville Andrea Chenier (Royal Opera House); Peter Hansel und Gretel (Netherlandse Reisopera); Geronte Manon Lescaut (Dorset Opera Festival); and Benoit/Alcindoro La boheme (Irish National Opera).