Eike Wilm Schulte made his LA Opera debut as Pizarro in Fidelio in 2007. His 2009/10 season includes the Music Master in Ariadne auf Naxos and Telramund in Lohengrin at the Munich State Opera, Telramund and Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Alberich in Das Rheingold at the Leipzig Opera and Pizarro in Fidelio with the Hong Kong Opera. Among the highlights of his concert calendar are Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with the Boston Philharmonic as well as in Hong Kong.

Since 1991 he has appeared regularly at the Metropolitan Opera singing the German dramatic and character baritone repertoire, as well as at the Vienna State Opera, at Covent Garden, La Scala, in Munich and Berlin, and in many other opera houses worldwide. He has sung in 12 consecutive Bayreuth Festivals and appeared in Salzburg's summer and Easter festivals. His many other festival appearances range from the Wagner Festival in Osaka to the Bregenz and Munich Opera Festivals. He has worked with stage directors such as Götz Friedrich, Harry Kupfer, Thomas Langhoff, August Everding, Dieter Dorn and Peter Stein and many famous conductors, too numerous to list.

As a concert singer he is also very much in demand. The following are examples of his diverse concert engagements: The Europe Concert with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at Berlin's Philharmonic Hall in 2000; the Sony 50th anniversary concert in Tokyo with the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado; the 2000 Millennium Concert in Rome under Giuseppe Sinopoli, broadcast by RAI; Mahler's Eighth Symphony at the Tanglewood Festival under James Levine for an 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.

This international career has been preceded by ensemble contracts at the Hessische Staatstheater Wiesbaden, where since 1993 he has been an honorary member, and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in 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.

Eike Wilm Schulte's discography includes complete recordings of Lohengrin, Die schweigsame Frau and Daphne (Decca), Mahler's Eighth Symphony (EMI), Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Bruckner's Mass No. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon).

He began his vocal training at the age of 19 with Josef Metternich at the University of Music in Cologne and graduated in only four years. His first engagement was at the opera studio of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf, his first role being Sid in "Albert Herring".