Eddie Wade

Baritone

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  Eddie Wade regularly performs at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, English National Opera, Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne.  He has worked with many leading conductors, including Sir Charles Mackerras, Mark Elder, Antonio Pappano, Daniele Gatti, Maurizio Benini, Mark Wigglesworth, Carlo Rizzi, Philippe Auguin and Sîan Edwards.

  Recent and future highlights include Baron Douphol La Traviata for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Sprecher Die Zauberflöte for Welsh National Opera, and the title role in a new production of Rigoletto for Scottish Opera.

  Eddie Wade is represented by Rayfield Allied worldwide.
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  • Messiah (Handel), English Chamber Orchestra, Leeds Town Hall
    (December 2011)

    ...the rich tone and powerful projection of Royal Opera House stalwart Eddie Wade, who brought great strength and depth to the three bass arias

    Laura Kate Wilson, Bachtrack

  • Rigoletto (Verdi), Scottish Opera
    (May 2011)

    Eddie Wade's sturdy and supple baritone makes for a compelling Rigoletto.

    Kate Molleson, The Guardian

    Eddie Wade’s gruff, dour Rigoletto was marked by rich tone and breadth of phrasing.

    Rupert Christiansen, The Telegraph

    [Eddie Wade’s] acting as much as his singing was compelling

    Neil Jones, Opera Now

    [Eddie Wade’s] stage presence and his penetrating characterisation of the tormented hunchback probe all the ambiguities of the character

    Michael Tumelty, Herald Scotland

    ...Rigoletto was played by Eddie Wade – and here was a brilliant performance. Wade’s unfortunate hunchback ran the whole gamut of emotions before our eyes and explored an extraordinary palette of vocal colours as he did so. His duets with Nadine Livingston (Gilda) were wonderfully tender and the contrast between that tenderness and the bitter agony of the last act was one of the things which left the greatest impression of the evening. Pure and clear when playing the over-protective parent and a shocking nasal rage when he later discovered that he had been betrayed and had lost his daughter after all...This was a complex, rich and dark Rigoletto completely believable in his pain and completely satisfying to listen to.

    Kelvin Holdsworth, Opera Britannia

    The singing was excellent...Eddie Wade was a very convincing Rigoletto...there is no doubt that he is thoroughly inside the role. Pari siamo was a great character study but was surpassed by his great Act 2 scene with the courtiers, moving from towering rage to cowering impotence without any sense of irony.

    Simon Thompson, Seen and Heard International

  • Madam Butterfly (Puccini), Welsh National Opera
    (2007)

    …Eddie Wade, despite having a cold, took over Sharpless most effectively.

    Jon Holliday, The Stage

    …while the Sharpless of Eddie Wade, Standing in for a virus-stricken Neal Davies, had compassion.

    Rian Evans, The Guardian

    while Eddie Wade’s Sharpless (…) cuts a dignified, tenderly convincing figure as the appalled spectator to his countryman’s cruelty

    Neil Fisher, The Times

• Eddie Wade Concert Repertoire

  Beethoven

  • Choral Symphony No 9
  • Mass in D

  Brahms

  • Requiem

  Butterworth

  • Six songs from a Shropshire Lad

  Dvorak

  • Te Deum op.103

  Elgar

  • Dream of Gerontius

  Faure

  • Requiem

  Handel

  • Messiah

  Mendelssohn

  • Elijah

  Mozart

  • Vesperae de Dominica KV 321
  • Mass in C KV 427 (417a)

  Orff

  • Carmina Burana

  Puccini

  • Messa di Gloria

  Rossini

  • Stabat Mater

  Stanford

  • Songs of the Fleet

  Vaughan Williams

  • Dona Nobis Pacem
  • Sea Symphony
  • Songs of Travel

  Verdi

  • Requiem

  Eddie Wade Opera Repertoire

  Britten

  • Peter Grimes (Balstrode)

  Humperdinck

  • Hansel and Gretel (Peter)

  Janacek

  • Cunning Little Vixen (Forester) (Poacher)
  • Jenufa (Mill Foreman)

  Leoncavallo

  • I Pagliacci (Tonio)

  MacMillan

  • Ines de Castro (The Executioner)

  Mascagni

  • Cavalleria Rusticana (Alfio)

  Mozart

  • Die Zauberflote (Sprecher)
  • Le Nozze Di Figaro (Conte Almaviva)

  Musorgsky

  • Boris Godunov (Andrei Schelkalov)

  Puccini

  • Madama Butterfly (Sharpless)
  • La Boheme (Marcello)
  • Tosca (Scarpia) (Sciarrone)
  • Turandot (Mandarin)

  Strauss

  • Salome (Jokanaan)

  Verdi

  • La Traviata (Giorgio Germont)(Baron Douphol)
  • Don Carlos (Rodrigo)
  • Otello (Iago)
  • Un Ballo in Maschera (Renato)
  • Macbeth (title role)
  • Rigoletto (title role)

  Wagner

  • Das Rheingold (Donner)
  • Tristan und Isolde (Melot)(Kurwenal)

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