| Biography | 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, Opera Australia, Royal Opera House (London), La Scala and the Salzburg Festival.
He died of cancer on 8 September 2016 at the age of 51. At the time of his death Botha lived in Vienna, Austria with his wife Sonja and two sons. |