Rayfield Artists - Eddie Wade


	Home News Artists Links Contact	EDDIE WADE Baritone full biography \| photo 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, 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 performances include Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, Foreman Jenufa, and 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 and Scarpia Tosca with Diva Opera and 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. Recent highlights include a live broadcast of La Traviata for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden which was shown simultaneously via big screen relay 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 Baron Douphol La Traviata for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden (also touring to Japan) and Giorgio Germont La Traviata for Welsh National Opera. This short biography is for information only and should not be reproduced. Please download a full biography here.