Eike Wilm Schulte

Eike Wilm Schulte (born 13 October 1939) is a German operatic baritone. A member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden,from 1988 the Bayerische Staatsoper, he made an international career, singing more than 100 parts at major opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera, and at festivals including the Bayreuth Festival. He participated in several premieres of contemporary opera.

Schulte was born in Plettenberg, Westphalia. He studied voice at the Musikhochschule Köln, with Josef Metternich among others. He made his debut on stage at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 1966 as Sid in Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring. From 1969, Schulte was a member of the Theater Bielefeld, where he appeared as Papageno in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, as Germont in La Traviata and in the leading part Alfred Ill in Gottfried von Einem's Der Besuch der alten Dame, opposite Martha Mödl in the title role. From 1973 to 1988 Schulte was a member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where he sang major baritone parts, from Mozart (Guglielmo in Così fan tutte) to Wagner (Telramund in Lohengrin), Marcel in Puccini's La Bohème, Lindorf, Coppelius, Dapertutto and Mirakel in Hoffmanns Erzählungen, alongside Hermin Esser  in the title role, Elizabeth Parcells as Olympia and Gail Gilmore as Niklaus, and the pharao in Rossini's Mosè, with Nadine Secunde. He performed contemporary operas such as premieres by Volker David Kirchner. From 1988 he has been a member of the Bayerische Staatsoper. During his career, he sang more than a hundred different parts.