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Posted September 15, 2016
Posted September 15, 2016
Uncommonly versatile Wagnerian tenor Johan Botha died of cancer in Vienna on September 8, 2016. (Click READ MORE for video below.)
9http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/arts/music/johan-botha-dies.html?_r=0
His final performance at the Met was Tannhauser in 2015. Botha was very well-matched with Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek in that Tannhäuser. Here they are Siegmund and Sieglinde in a 2013 concert version in Bayreuth of the first act of Die Walküre, conducted by Christian Thielemann.
(Video at the end of the article)