Eddie Wade
Baritone
Awarded First Place and the Verdi/Wagner Prize at the National Mozart Competition in 1996, Eddie Wade made his Royal Opera House debut as the Mandarin Turandot in the same season and has since performed many varied roles with leading companies internationally.
Eddie Wade | Ach, wir armen Leute! | Hänsel und Gretel | Humperdinck
Eddie Wade | Jack Rance | La fanciulla del West | Puccini
Eddie Wade | Rigoletto | Rigoletto | Verdi
In the 24/25 season Eddie makes his role debut as Bill in a new production of A Quiet Place and return to the role of Benoit La bohème under the musical direction of Speranza Scappucci, whilst also covering Peter Hansel und Gretel (Royal Opera House); he also creates the role of Rubin Dewey in the world premiere of Under the Greenwood Tree (Dorset Opera Festival).
Previous 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 & Scottish Opera); Prince Arjuna Satyagraha, Mereia/Lepidus Caligula (English National Opera); Peter Hansel und Gretel and (Netherlandse Reisopera; WNO); 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); 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); Benoit/Alcindoro La boheme (Irish National Opera); Duclou Zazà (Opera Holland Park); Gunther Götterdämmerung (Longborough Festival Opera); Don Alfonso Cosi fan tutte, Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro and Geronte Manon Lescaut (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); 2nd 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 9th 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 Mark Elder, Sir Antonio Pappano, Esa Pekka Salonen, Maurizio Benini, Carlo Rizzi, Philippe Auguin, Andris Nelsons, Jakub Hrůša and Mark Wigglesworth.