Johan botha tenor biography for kids

Botha had a father who was a great admirer of Enrico Caruso, and he got his first voice lessons already at the age of 10. As an adult, he studied in Pretoria, first as a bass, from 1987 as a tenor, and he sang his first stage roles in university performances.

Johan botha tenor biography for kids

Johan botha tenor biography for kids

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His official debut came in 1989 (as Max in Roodeport, which is part of Greater Johannesburg).

In 1990, he was a chorister at the Bayreuth Festival and sang Riccardo in Kaiserslautern. Then he had his first contracts in Hagen, Dortmund and Bonn.

1993 brought his breakthrough as Pinkerton at the Paris Opéra Bastille; via Hamburg and Berlin (both Staatsoper and Komische Oper), he came to the Vienna Volksoper, and in 1996 to the Vienna Staatsoper, where he would spend most of his career: Cavaradossi (his Staatsoper debut role), Calaf, Andrea Chénier, Turiddu, Canio, Otello, Don Carlo, Arrigo, Radames, Lohengrin, Stolzing, Erik, Tannhäuser, Siegmund, Parsifal, Florestan, Bacchus, Kaiser, Apollo (Daphn