Eddie Wade, Baritone. Opera page.

Eddie Wade, the opera singer

Eddie Wade is enjoying a varied opera career and has appeared with many of the major UK companies including The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera and Glyndebourne Touring Opera.

Eddie sings the heavier baritone repertoire and is just starting to come into his prime in terms of vocal capability. He enjoys singing the Verdi, Puccini and Verismo repertoire above all else; however, he recently learned Kurwenal, the main baritone role from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, for Welsh National Opera (as a cover) and found it very challenging but immensley rewarding and exciting to sing.

Eddie most enjoys roles such as Iago (Otello), Tonio (I Pagliacci) and Scarpia (Tosca) because roles such as these require many subtle changes of vocal colour and expression plus they are fantastically Machiavellian style villains, so he gets to play against type....maybe!?.

You may contact Eddie via the e–mail address below for more information, or to check booking availability:

Eddie's Opera performances:

Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) – Welsh National Opera

Baron Douphol (La Traviata) – Royal Opera, Covent Garden

Mandarin (Turandot) – Royal Opera, Covent Garden

Indian (Bartered Bride) – Royal Opera, Covent Garden

Melot (Tristan und Isolde) – Welsh National Opera

Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde)* – Welsh National Opera

Mill Foreman (Jenufa) – English Touring Opera

Baron Douphol (La Traviata) – Welsh National Opera (filmed for S4C)

Scarpia (Tosca) – Diva Opera, France, U.K. & Jersey

Germont (La Traviata) – Glyndebourne Touring Opera

Baron Douphol (La Traviata) – Glyndebourne Touring Opera

Marcello (La Boheme) – Welsh National Opera

The Executioner (Ines de Castro) (J. MacMillan) – Scottish Opera, U.K. & Portugal.

Sharpless (Madama Butterfly) – Scottish Opera

Crown (Porgy and Bess) – Wexford Festival Opera

Macbeth (Macbeth) – English Touring Opera

Sciarrone (Tosca) – Raymond Gubbay, Royal Albert Hall

Tonio (I Pagliacci) – Diva Opera, France & Jersey

Pish Tush (The Mikado) – D'Oyly Carte Opera

Iago (Otello)* – Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Forester (Cunning Little Vixen)* – Welsh National Opera

Germont (La Traviata)* – Welsh National Opera (main & concert tours)

Donner (Das Rheingold)* – Scottish Opera

Balstrode (Peter Grimes)* – Glyndebourne Festival Opera

Alfio/Tonio (Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci)* – Welsh National Opera

Andrei Schelkalov (Boris Godunov)* – English National Opera

Renato (Un Ballo in Maschera)* – Welsh National Opera

* Denotes a role Understudied.

Eddie Wade singing Macbeth

Selected Opera Reviews

Mandarin (Turandot) for Royal Opera

Eddie Wade made a vocally resonant debut as the Mandarin.

Hugh Canning – Opera

Both Peter Coleman-Wright's Ping and Eddie Wade's Mandarin were vocally impressive.

Tom Sutcliffe – Evening Standard

Baritone Eddie Wade singing the Mandarin in Turandot for the Royal Opera

....and Eddie Wade a crisp Mandarin.

Rodney Milnes – The Times

...and Eddie Wade's Mandarin was richly sung.

Dave Blewitt – The Stage

Eddie Wade's Mandarin seizes the audiences attention.

George Hall – The Guardian

Melot (Tristan und Isolde) for WNO

Eddie Wade's Melot was spirited.

Rian Evans –The Guardian

Listen to Eddie sing...

Here are more short excerpts of Eddie Wade singing various arias. The files are all in MP3 format. Click on any link to start.

O Du Mein Holder Abendstern

O Du Mein Holder Abendstern, part 2

Prologue from I Pagliacci

Prologue from I Pagliacci, part 2

Questo Amor from Puccini's Edgar

Count's Aria from Mozart's Figaro

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