Johan Botha
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedJohan Botha (Lohengrin), Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa), Falk Struckmann (Telramund), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov
Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance, keenly dramatic yet finely detailed. His Cologne orchestra and various choruses, focused and involved, sound tremendous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Disc of the Year & Opera Award Winner
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Opera, June 2009, Recording of the Month
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Boulez Conducts Mahler
RecommendedComplete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon
Rainer Keuschnig (organ), Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Michelle Deyoung (mezzo-soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto), Johan Botha (tenor), Juliane Banse, Twyla Robinson, Erin Wall, Adriane Queiroz, Michelle DeYoung, Simone Schröder,...
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Grammy Awards, 46th Awards (2003), Best Orchestral Performance
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Building a Library, May 2023, Also Recommended
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Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos
Johan Botha (Bacchus), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta), Sophie Koch (Komponist)
Wiener Staatsoper, Christian Thielemann
The set’s chief glory is arguably the playing of the musicians of the State Opera Orchestra: every solo line is exquisitely crafted and beautifully integrated, for which Thielemann must of course... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
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Strauss, R: Daphne
Renée Fleming (Daphne), Johan Botha (Apollos), Michael Schade (Leukippos), Kwanchul Youn (Peineios), Anna Larsson (Gaea)
Orchestra & Chorus of West Deutscher Rundfunk, Semyon Bychkov
Renée Fleming's many admirers should be pleased enough with her gracious performance. She deals idiomatically with Strauss's long phrases and points the text well… —
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Johan Botha: Wiener Staatsoper Live
1997 - 2014: Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss
Johan Botha (tenor), Christian Gerhaher (Wolfram), Cheryl Studer (Elsa), James Rutherford (Sachs), Angela Denoke (Kundry), Marjana Lipovšek (Amme), Ricarda Merbeth (Daphne), Soile Isokoski (Ariadne), Valentina Nafornită (Najade), Rachel Frenkel (Dryade), Olga Bezsmertna (Echo), Daniela Fally (Zerbinetta)
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The recorded sound is produced to a consistently pleasing quality, and one does sense the special atmosphere of the live performance. Live at Wiener Staatsoper, this first-rate collection is... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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Special offer. Albert, E: Tiefland
Lisa Gasteen (Marta), Johan Botha (Pedro), Falk Struckman (Sebastiano), Kwangchul Youn (Tommaso), Raymond Very (Nando)
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Singakademie & Heinz Ferlesch Choreinstudierung, Bertrand De Billy
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 8
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), John Relyea (bass), Erika Sunnegardh, MDR-Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin, Susan Bullock (soprano), Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Anna Prohaska (soprano), Lilli Paasikivi, Johan Botha (tenor), Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin,...
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Vienna State Opera Gala 2005
Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Edita Gruberova (Donna Anna), Thomas Hampson (Don Giovanni), Ildikó Raimondi (Zerlina), Michael Schade (Don Ottavio), Soile Isokoski (Donna Elvira) Ferruccio Furlanetto (Leporello), Boaz Daniel (Masetto), Soile Isokoski (Marschallin), Angelika Kirchschlager (Octavian)
Genia...
Last November the Vienna State Opera celebrated the 50th anniversary of the house's re-opening after the damage of the war had been repaired. The gala concert included extracts from all the... —
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There is a beautiful control of line and length of phrase in the Swede’s singing [of the final scene of Siegfried], together with a beyond fearless placing of the tessitura – a special performance,... —
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Special offer. Klassik zur Hochzeit - Classical Wedding
Kwangchul Youn, Johan Botha (tenor), Adrianne Pieczonka (soprano), Falk Struckmann (bass-baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo-soprano), Eike Wilm-Schulte, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Barbara Schlick (soprano), Erika Schmidt-Valentin, Clemens Bieber, Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Michala Petri (recorder), Danish...
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