Johan Botha
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- South Africa
- Active from
- 1965-08-19
- Active to
- 2016-09-08
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Johan Botha (19 August 1965 – 8 September 2016) was a South African operatic tenor. Botha was born in Rustenburg, South Africa. He made his stage debut at the municipal theatre in Roodepoort as Max in Der Freischütz in 1989. His international breakthrough occurred in 1993 at the Opéra Bastille as Pinkerton in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. Since then he performed at leading opera venues around the world such as the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera which made him a Kammersänger in 2003 <a hre
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johan
- Family name
- Botha
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Africa
- Place of birth
- Rustenburg
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- opera singer
- Field of work
- opera
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.johan-botha.com
- Image
- Ariadne auf Naxos at Hamburgische Staatsoper 2012 - Photo No 209 by Monika Rittershaus cropped.jpg
- Voice type
- Heldentenor
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- Johan Botha (tenor)
- date of birth
- 1965-08-19
- date of death
- 2016-09-08
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- liver cancer
- place of burial
- Vienna Central Cemetery
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- Johan Botha
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