Eike Wilm Schulte

Appearing at the prestigious Bayreuth Festival for 12 consecutive years, Eike Wilm Schulte has performed regularly at such distinguished opera houses, theatres and festivals as, the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, La Scala, Salzburg’s summer and Easter Festivals, the Wagner Festival in Osaka, the Bregenz Festival and the Munich Opera Festival, among others.

In the 2009/10 season, he sings music-master in Ariadne auf Naxos and Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin at the Munich State Opera; Friedrich von Telramund and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and Alberich in Das Rheingold at the Leipzig Opera. He also collaborates with the Boston Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

He is also demanded as a concert singer. His concert engagements include the 50th Sony anniversary concert in Tokyo with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado, the Millennium Concert 2000 in Rome under Giuseppe Sinopoli, broadcast by RAI; Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in Tanglewood under James Levine for an enthusiastic audience of 16.000; and an open-air concert in Paris with the French National and Boston Symphony orchestras under Seiji Ozawa for an audience of 300,000.

His discography includes the complete recordings of Lohengrin, Die Schweigsame Frau and Daphne (DECCA 2005), Mahler's Eighth Symphony (EMI 1992), Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Bruckner‘s Mass No. 1 in D minor (Deutsche Grammophon 2001).

Eike Wilm Schulte began his vocal training at the age of 19 with Josef Metternich at the University of Music in Cologne. He is an honorary member of the Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden since 1993, and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf. In 2008, he was awarded the Goethe Medal by the State of Hessen's ministry of culture, the State's most prestigious cultural award.