Eddie Wade

Eddie Wade made his Royal Opera debut in 1996 as the Mandarin (Turandot), winning First Place and the Verdi/Wagner Prize at the National Mozart Competition the same year. Highlights include Peter (Hansel and Gretel), Alcindoro and Marcello (La bohème), Baron Douphol (La traviata), Foquier-Tinville (Andrea Chénier), Julio (The Exterminating Angel), Sharpless (Madama Butterfly), Prince Arjuna (Satyagraha), Count Almaviva (The Barber of Seville) and the title role of Rigoletto. He has performed with Danish National Opera, Nederlandse Reisopera, Glyndebourne Festival and on Tour, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Irish National Opera, Opera North, English Touring Opera, Opera Holland Park, International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, The Philharmonia, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the RTÉ, London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and has worked with conductors Mark Elder, Antonio Pappano, Charles Mackerras, Esa Pekka Salonen, Maurizio Benini, Carlo Rizzi, Philippe Auguin, Andris Nelsons, Jakub Hrůša and Mark Wigglesworth.