Biography
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The biographical information on this page was last updated on 19th December 2011
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Eddie Wade studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He won First Prize and the Verdi/Wagner Prize at the National Mozart Competition in 1996 and was a bursary winner at the inaugural Madeleine Finden Memorial Competition in 1997. After making his Royal Opera, Covent Garden debut in 1996 as the Mandarin Turandot Eddie furthered his training at the National Opera Studio, sponsored by The Royal Opera and the Sybil Tutton Trust.
Eddie sings regularly with The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Welsh 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 performances include Rigoletto Rigoletto for Scottish Opera, Speaker The Magic Flute, Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Foreman Jenufa, Peter Hansel and Gretel for Welsh National Opera and Baron Douphol La Traviata for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Other roles include Sharpless Madama Butterfly for Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera; Marcello La Boheme, Baron Douphol La Traviata and Melot Tristan und Isolde for Welsh National Opera and the Mandarin Turandot and Indian Bartered Bride for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden.
Eddie has toured France & Switzerland singing Giorgio Germont La Traviata, Scarpia Tosca and Rigoletto Rigoletto with Diva Opera and he sang the Executioner in the European premiere of James Macmillan’s Inés de Castro for Scottish Opera in Portugal during Porto’s year as European Capital of Culture.
Eddie’s recent highlights include a live broadcast of La Traviata for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden which was shown simultaneously via big screen relay in Cities throughout the UK and in over 170 cinemas across the UK and Europe
Eddie’s television and radio highlights include Baron Douphol La Traviata for S4C (with Welsh National Opera) and a live broadcast for Lyric FM of Orff’s Carmina Burana for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
Eddie’s concert performances are many and varied and include the Verdi and Brahms’ Requiems, Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, Handel’s Messiah and Dvorak’s Te Deum. He has sung with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and for Raymond Gubbay Ltd at the Royal Albert Hall and the Barbican Arts Centre, most recently in Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. He has sung Mendelssohn’s Elijah many times, including tours to France and Belgium and in Wells Cathedral.
Engagements this season and beyond include Mereia / Lepidus Caligula for English National Opera, Gunther Götterdämmerung for Longborough Festival Opera and Baron Douphol La Traviata for Welsh National Opera.