Bonaventura Bottone

Tenor

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  Bonaventura Bottone trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was later awarded a fellowship in 1998.  He has performed with major opera companies all over the world, most notably the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival, Opéra de Paris, Bayerische Staatsoper, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston Grand Opera, Santiago di Chile, Opera Queensland, La Fenice, La Scala, English National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera.

  His operatic repertoire consists of over a hundred leading roles, including La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Ballo in Maschera, Der Rosenkavalier, Rigoletto, Capriccio, Viaggio a Reims, Eugene Onegin, Das Rheingold, Die Meistersinger, Andrea Chénier, Die Zauberflöte, Don Pasquale,  L’elisir d’amore, Candide, Die Fledermaus, L’heure espagnole, Conte Ory, Les Huguenots, Il Tabarro, La Traviata, Otello, Troilus and Cressida, Falstaff, Cavalleria Rusticana, La Favorita, Il Seraglio, Salome, Adriana Lecouvreur and The Damnation de Faust.
       
  Bonaventura’s recordings include Die Fledermaus with Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, Lucia di Lammermoor with Edita Gruberova and Alfredo Kraus, Faust et Hélène by Lili Boulanger, Hugh the Drover, The Mikado with Eric Idle, and Candide, Der Zerbrochene Krug, A Little Night Music, Street Scene, The Student Prince and Otello with Charles Craig. 

  Future engagements include a performance of Nick La Fanciulla del West for Opera North and Italian Tenor Der Rosenkavalier with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

  Bonaventura Bottone is represented worldwide by Ben Rayfield at Rayfield Allied.
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  • La Belle Helene
    English National Opera

    Bonaventura Bottone's Menelaus gives a master class in the delivery of text.

    The Daily Telegraph

    Bonaventura Bottone is a crystal-clear Menelaus

    The Guardian

• Bonaventura Bottone’s Opera Repertoire

  Eugene d'Albert

  • Tiefland (Nando)

  Berlioz

  • The Damnation of Faust (Faust)
  • Les Troyens (Iopas, Hylas)

  Bernstein

  • Candide (Grand Inquisitor, Captain, Immigration Officer, Vanderdendur, Ragotsky)

  Britten

  • Glorianna (Spirit of the Masque)
  • Peter Grimes (Bob Boles)
  • Turn of the Screw (Peter Quint)

  Gavin Bryars

  • Dr. Ox's Experiment (Dr. Ox)

  Cilea

  • Adrianna Lecouvreur (L'Abate di Chazeuil)

  Gilbert & Sullivan

  • Patience (Duke of Dunstable)

  Giordano

  • Andrea Chenier (The Incredible)

  Janáček

  • Makropulos Case (Vitek, Count Hauk-Šendorf)
  • The Cunning Little Vixen (The Schoolmaster)

  Lehár

  • The Merry Widow (Baron Zeta)

  Leoncavallo

  • I Pagliacci (Beppe)

  Mozart

  • Die Zauverflöte (Monostatos)
  • Le Nozze di Figaro (Basilio)

  Offenbach

  • La belle Hélène (Menelaus)
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann (Spalanzani)
  • Orpheus in the Underworld (John Styx, Pluto)

  Prokofiev

  • The Love for Three Oranges (Truffaldino)
  • War and Peace (Major Domo, Bonnet, Adjutant de Compans)

  Puccini

  • Fanciulla del West (Nick)
  • Gianni Schicchi (Gherardo)
  • Madama Butterfly (Goro)
  • Il Tabarro (Tinca)
  • Turandot (Pong)

  Ravel

  • L'Heure Espagnol (Torquemada)

  Rossini

  • Conte Ory (Conte Ory)
  • Viaggio a Reims (Conte Liebenskoff)
  • William Tell (The Fisherman)

  Shostakovich

  • Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Zinovy)

  Sondheim

  • Sweeney Todd (Pirelli)

  Johann Strauss

  • Die Fledermaus (Alfred)

  Richard Strauss

  • Ariadne auf Naxos (Brigella)
  • Capriccio (Italian Tenor)
  • Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Tenor)
  • Salome (First Jew)

  Tchaikovsky

  • Eugene Onegin (Monsieur Triquet)

  Ullman

  • Zerbrockene Krug (Licht)

  Verdi

  • Falstaff (Bardolph, Caius)

  Wagner

  • Das Rheingold (Loge)

  Bonaventura Bottone’s Concert Repertoire

  Bach

  • B Minor Mass
  • Christmas Oratorio
  • Wachet Auf
  • St John Passion

  Beethoven

  • Mass in C
  • Symphony No. 9
  • Mass in D

  Berlioz

  • Te Deum
  • Requiem
  • Grand Messe Des Mortes

  Britten

  • Rejoice in the Lamb
  • St Nicholas

  Coleridge-Taylor

  • Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

  Dvořák

  • Stabat Mater
  • Requiem

  Elgar

  • Dream of Gerontius

  Handel

  • Sixth Chandos Anthem
  • Dettingen Te Deum
  • Messiah
  • Acis and Galatea
  • Jeptha

  Haydn

  • Seasons
  • Imperial Mass
  • Paukenmesse
  • The Creation
  • Nelson Mass

  Kodaly

  • Psalmus Hungaricus Op. 13

  Mendelssohn

  • Elijah

  McCartney

  • Liverpool Oratorio

  Mozart

  • Litaniae Laurentanae
  • Requiem
  • Mass in C
  • Vespers

  Orff

  • Carmina Burana

  Puccini

  • Messa di Gloria

  Rachmaninov

  • The Bells

  Rossini

  • Stabat Mater
  • Petite Messe Solennelle

  Stainer

  • Crucifixion

  Verdi

  • Requiem

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