Eike Wilm Schulte

Eike Wilm Schulte (13 October 1939 – 31 October 2025) was a German operatic baritone. A member of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Bayerische Staatsoper, he made a career of more than fifty years, performing 119 roles. He appeared at major opera houses internationally, regularly at the Bayreuth Festival for twelve years and at the Metropolitan Opera. Signature roles of the versatile singer included Rossini's Figaro, Germont in Verdi's La traviata, Beckmesser in Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Faninal in Der Rosenkavalier by R. Strauss. He participated in several opera premieres.

Life and career Schulte was born in Plettenberg on 13 October 1939. and as Beckmesser in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg from Deutsche Oper Berlin. He recorded Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri with Simone Kermes in the title role, the EuropaChorAkademie and the Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Joshard Daus in 2001.