Bonaventura Bottone is recognised as one of the leading tenor-actors of his

generation, and has performed at many of the world’s leading opera houses. 

He trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London.  The Academy

honoured him with a fellowship in 1998.

Bonaventura Bottone’s European engagements include: Der Rosenkavalier

(Italian Singer), Die Fledermaus (Alfred), Les Huguenots (Raoul), Otello

(Cassio), Il Viaggio a Reims (Count Libenskof), Capriccio (Italian Singer),

Sweeney Todd (Pirelli) and Torquemade (L’Heure Espagnole) at the Royal

Opera Covent Garden; Die Fledermaus (Alfred) at the Opera National de

Paris Bastille; Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Singer) and Die Fledermaus (Alfred)

at the Bayerische Staatsoper München; The Mikado (Nanki-Poo) at the Teatro

La Fenice di Venezia; and Capriccio (Italian Singer) at the Glyndebourne

Festival.

Bonaventura Bottone’s North American engagements include: Capriccio

(Italian Singer) and Andrea Cheniér (Incredibile) at the Metropolitan Opera

New York; Capriccio (Italian Tenor), Die Fledermaus (Alfred), Loge (Das

Rheingold) and Sweeney Todd (Pirelli) at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; and Die

Entführung aus dem Serail (Pedrillo) at Houston Opera.

Bonaventura Bottone has enjoyed a long and creatively rich partnership with

English National Opera.  He has created more than twenty roles with the

company and is widely recognized as one of their leading exponents in the

Italian lyric tenor repertoire.    He has also sung with Welsh National Opera

and Opera North.  His Loge (Das Rheingold) for Scottish Opera is described

as ‘magnificent’ by the Grove Dictionary of Opera.  He revived the role to

critical acclaim in season 2004-5 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Bonaventura Bottone has an extensive concert repertoire, which has taken

him to many of the world’s leading concert halls.  He has sung with numerous

prominent international conductors, including: Richard Bonynge, Andrew

Davis, Jacques Delacote, Edward Downes, Mark Elder, Rafael Fruhbeck de

Burgos, Bernard Haitink, Richard Hickox, Vladimir Jurowski, James Levine,

Charles Mackerras , Neville Marriner, Carlo Rizzi and Jeffrey Tate.

Recent engagements include Rodolfo (La Boheme) in Brisbane, Menelaus (La

Belle Helene) for English National Opera, Alfred for the Glyndebourne

Festival, Glyndebourne on Tour and the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Torquemade

(L’Heure Espagnole) at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, his debut at La

Scala in five pivotal roles in Bernstein’s Candide, a performance he repeated

this summer at English National Opera and his debut at Los Angeles as Licht

(Zerbrochene Krug).

Future engagements include: Carmina Burana with the Edmonton Symphony,

Torquemade (L’Heure Espagnole) at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, four

roles in Candide in Japan and the Abbot (Adriana Lecouvreur) the Royal

Opera Covent Garden.

 

BONAVENTURA BOTTONE

Vocal Category: Tenor

Representation: General Mngmt

‘A superb actor, with a strong lyrical voice,

making a magnificent Loge’

Elizabeth Forbes, New Grove

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Alfred(Fledermaus): Covent Garden/Paris/

Munich/Glyndebourne/Chicago

Italian Tenor (Capriccio): Metropolitan/

Chicago/Glyndebourne

Loge: Chicago/Scottish Opera

Pirelli (Sweeney Todd): Chicago/Covent

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Nanki-Poo: ENO, La Fenice

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