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News Archive
If you want to read about any of Eddie Wade’s past news stories or events reported in the media then you should follow the News Archive link…
Roles Archive
For all the details about Eddie’s past opera and concert performances and details of which opera companies he has sung a particular rôle for then you should follow the Roles Archive link…
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Reviews for Scottish Opera's Rigoletto:
Eddie Wade’s gruff, dour Rigoletto was marked by rich tone and breadth of phrasing
Rupert Christiansen – The Daily Telegraph 2011
Eddie Wade’s coarse, self-loathing Rigoletto is part music-hall entertainer, part Shakespearean fool, pushing his daughter away with his impotent desire to keep her safe…
Sarah Urwin Jones – Times 2011
Eddie Wade’s sturdy and supple baritone makes for a compelling Rigoletto
Kate Molleson – The Guardian 2011
Baritone Eddie Wade…invests the tormented fool of the title with a mesmerising palette of emotions, engagingly acted and resourcefully sung… [Nadine] Livingston’s solos and duets, especially with Wade, are quite sublime…
Keith Aitken – Scottish Daily Express 2011
The cast is superb…[Eddie Wade’s] stage presence and penetrating characterisation of the tormented hunchback probe all the ambiguities of the character
Michael Tumelty – The Herald 2011
…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…
…Wade’s Rigoletto was completely creepy and possessed of a horrifying darkness, whether jigging around at court in the manner of a deranged Max Wall or skulking around hiring others to play out his own inner violence…
…The closing duets from Wade and Miss Livingston reconfirmed, lest there have been any doubt from their performances earlier in the evening that they had been perfectly cast together. Though Wade’s Rigoletto had been deeply unpleasant, somewhere in his agony over his daughter, it was possible to find a sense of compassion for him. This was a complex, rich and dark Rigoletto completely believable in his pain and completely satisfying to listen to…
Kelvin Holdsworth – Opera Britannia
Scottish Opera’s new production delves into these deep psychological waters with Eddie Wade portraying a tragic but all too human Rigoletto and in – as far as opera will allow – a contained performance Wade used his powerful baritone voice to sound out the pain instead of relying on any over the top histrionics.
Over the last few years we’ve found out more about the inner life of our favourite clowns such as Frankie Howerd or Tony Hancock and this dichotomous existence is at the heart of Wade’s portrayal. The double life led by the jester is sharply drawn not simply by changes of costume or set but in Wade’s face and gait where the burden of his secret life seems to physically weigh him down.
Neil McEwan – TVBomb 2011
Interviews for Rigoletto at Scottish Opera:
I have had many interviews for Rigoletto in the lead up to the opening night, including the following…
Profile interview with Michael Tumelty for The Herald Scotland:
The Herald Scotland Rigoletto interview
Special interview for the Scottish Sun readers’ preview show:
Scottish Sun Rigoletto interview
Radio 3’s In Tune show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b010xy9m
Further details on Rigoletto can be found here:
www.scottishopera.org.uk/rigoletto
Royal Opera La Traviata DVD Recording:
The Royal Opera’s New La Traviata DVD Recording has recently been released by Opus Arte. Starring Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson and Eddie Wade.
More details here: La Traviata – DVD Recording