Johan Botha

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Johan Botha (1955 – September 6, 2016), a South African operatic tenor, was born in August 1965.

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Life and career

Botha was born in Rustenburg, South Africa, and he began his singing with Jarmilla Tellenger from the age of ten to seventeen. He spent two years in the South African Air Force before pursuing further education with Eric Muller in Pretoria. His voice came as a bass-baritone, and his first opera appearance was portraying the title role in a student production of Verdi's Falstaff. His voice became that of a tenor as his studies progressed under Muller. In 1990, he moved to Europe and became a longtime student of Irmgard Hartmann.

Botha made his professional appearance at the municipal theatre in Roodepoort in 1989 as Max in Der Freischütz. In 1990, he was a member of the Bayreuth Festival as a member of the opera chorus. Riccardo in Un ballo in maschera at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern in 1991. This was followed by performances at opera houses in Dortmund, Hagen, Hildesheim, and Bonn. In Puccini's Madama Butterfly, he made his international debut in 1993 at the Opéra Bastille as Pinkerton. Since then, he has appeared at top opera venues around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and La Scala, which made him a Kammersänger in 2003, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House (London), and the Salzburg Festival.

On September 8, 2016, he died of liver cancer at the age of 51. Botha and his partner Sonja and his two sons were born in Vienna, Austria, at the time of his death. He was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery.

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