Eike Wilm Schulte

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Eike Wilm Schulte (born October 13, 1939 in Plettenberg , Westphalia ) is a German opera singer with a baritone voice .

Life and artistic work

Schulte studied singing at the Cologne University of Music , among others with the well-known opera singer and singing teacher Josef Metternich .

His debut as an opera singer took place in 1966 at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf-Duisburg as Sid in the opera Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten . In 1969 Schulte moved to the Bielefeld City Theater , where he was a member of the ensemble until 1973 . During this time Schulte worked on numerous major operatic roles in the subject of the lyric baritone up to the character baritone . In Bielefeld example, he sang Papageno in The Magic Flute , the Germont-père in La Traviata and Alfred Ill in The visit of the Old Lady of Gottfried von Einem with Martha Mödl as a partner.

From 1973 to 1988 Schulte was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden . In 1988 he became a member of the Bavarian State Opera .

Schulte had extensive guest contracts at home and abroad. He has made guest appearances at the Munich State Opera and the Hamburg State Opera , the State Theater Hanover , the State Theater Darmstadt , the State Theater Karlsruhe and the State Theater Braunschweig .

Foreign guest appearances have taken him to the Metropolitan Opera in New York , the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona , and the opera houses in Rome and Monte Carlo .

Schulte sang at the Bayreuth Festival for several years . From 1988 to 1991 and 1993 he sang Heerrufer in Lohengrin and in 1992, 1993 and 1995 Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser . In 1998 he also took over Gunther in Götterdämmerung there .

He is also an important concert singer and sought-after singing teacher.

Eike Wilm Schulte is an honorary member of the Hessian State Theater. In 2007 he was awarded the Goethe plaque by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art in recognition and appreciation for his many years of meritorious artistic work . This is the highest award in the state of Hesse .

repertoire

At the beginning of his career Schulte mainly sang the lyric baritone subject in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Papageno , Guglielmo ) and Richard Wagner ( Wolfram , Heerrufer ) as well as the lyric Italian opera subject. In later years major character roles such as music teacher in Ariadne auf Naxos , Peter in Hansel and Gretel , Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Klingsor in Parsifal were added. Finally, Eike Wilm Schulte also took on the major roles for hero baritone , such as Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin and Kurwenal in Tristan and Isolde .

Schulte was also considered a specialist in late Romantic works and for composers such as Gustav Mahler , Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Franz Schreker . Schulte also took part in several world premieres by the composer Volker David Kirchner .

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SURNAME Schulte, Eike Wilm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulte, Eike-Wilm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Plettenberg , Westphalia