Eike Wilm Schulte
Eike Wilm Schulte ( born October 13, 1939 in Plettenberg, Westphalia ) is a German opera singer in the vocal range baritone.
Life and artistic work
Schulte studied at the Cologne College of Music vocal, including at the renowned opera singer and voice teacher Josef Metternich.
His debut as an opera singer in 1966 at the German Opera on the Rhine Dusseldorf -Duisburg as Sid in the opera Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten. In 1969, Schulte at the Stadttheater Bielefeld, where he was a member until 1973. During this period, numerous great Schulte opera roles developed in the subject of the lyric baritone to the character baritone. In Bielefeld, he sang example, Papageno in The Magic Flute, Germont père in La Traviata, and the 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 an ensemble member at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden. In 1988 he became a member of the Bavarian State Opera.
Schulte had extensive guest engagements at home and abroad. He made guest appearances at the Munich State Opera and the Hamburg State Opera, Staatstheater Hannover, the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatstheater Karlsruhe and at the Staatstheater Braunschweig.
Tours abroad led him to the Metropolitan Opera in New York, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, at the opera houses of Rome and Monte Carlo.
Several years Schulte sang at the Bayreuth Festival. From 1988 to 1991, and in 1993 he sang the Herald in Lohengrin and 1992, 1993 and 1995, Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser. In 1998 he took over also the Gunther in Götterdämmerung.
He is also a major concert singer and voice teacher sought.
Eike Wilm Schulte is an honorary member of the State Theatre. In 2007 he was awarded the Goethe Medal by the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art in recognition and appreciation for his many years of meritorious artistic activity. This is the highest award in the state of Hesse.
Repertoire
Schulte sang at the beginning of his career, especially the lyric baritone repertoire in the operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( Papageno, Guglielmo ) and Richard Wagner (Wolfram, Heerrufer ) and the lyrical Italian operas tray. In later years, great character roles as music teachers came in Ariadne auf Naxos, Peter in Hansel and Gretel, Beck knife in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Klingsor in Parsifal added. Finally, Eike Wilm Schulte took over the major roles for Heldenbariton such as Friedrich von Telramund in Lohengrin and Kurvenal in Tristan und Isolde.
Schulte was also regarded as a specialist in works of the late Romantic and composers such as Gustav Mahler, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Franz Schreker. Schulte also acted in several world premieres of the composer Volker David Kirchner.