Ferdinand Von BOTHMER Tenor

Ferdinand von BOTHMER Tenor

Ferdinand von Bothmer was born in Munich and studied opera stage direction at the College of Music in Vienna, which he finished successfully with a master degree; until 2002 he studied there also singing and continued his private singing studies with Nicolai Gedda, Michael Pabst, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Vicenzo Bello.

He was member of Volksoper Vienna , where he sang Tito, Tamino, Ottavio, Ramiro, Rosillon, Almaviva.

Guest contracts brought him to Washington , Rome and Scala Milano as Jaquino, to Leipzig , Turin , Brussels and Zurich as Tamino, to Tokyo as Almaviva, to Düsseldorf and Hamburg as Chateauneuf, to Nancy as Ottavio and to Wiesbaden as Idomeneo.

More recently he sang "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots" by Mozart, "Ermione" and the title role of Rossini’s “Otello” in Pesaro , Leopold in a new production of "La Juive" and Tamino in Stuttgart , Leopold and Almaviva at Staatsoper Vienna , Narraboth in Las Palmas , and Rossini’s “Otello” in Tokyo .

He changed into a heavier repertoire singing Erik with Mo. Kuhn in Erl , Giasone in "Medea in Corinto" by Mayr at Staatsoper Munich and Cherubini’s "Koukourgi" in Klagenfurt .

He was heard as Max and Erik in Stuttgart , as Pollione in Pamplona , as Lohengrin with Mo. Kuhn in Erl , as Zamoro in Verdi’s "Alzira" in Toblach , South Tyrol, with "Il transito di San Giuseppe" by Pergolesi in Cracow and with "Johanna auf dem Scheiterhaufen" in Munich and sang Lohengrin in Vilnius , the world premiere of "Gehen:Bleiben" in Hamburg , "Giovanna di Scozia" by Mayr in Bergamo , Manrico, Alfredo in "Traviata", Don Ottavio und Froh in Erl , “Matthäuspassion” at Maggio Musicale in Florence , a new production "Semele" in Munich , Lohengrin in Bratislava , Manrico in Riga , "Die Feen" in Leipzig , Dvorak's "Alfred" in Prague and "Philemon und Baucis" in Monte Carlo .

Recent and future contracts until 2020/21 include Lohengrin in Vilnius , "Königin von Saba" in Freiburg , Loge, Froh, Stolzing, Arnold in "Gugliemo Tell", Pirro in “Ermione”, Parsifal and Radames in Erl , Lohengrin in Bratislava , „Verdi Requiem“ in Stuttgart , “Benvenuto Cellini” and Braunfels‘ "Szenen aus dem Leben der heiligen Johanna" in Cologne , Hans Gal's "Lied der Nacht" in Osnabrück , Offizier in "Cardillac" in Florence , “La Wally” in Bozen and “Cardillac” in Antwerp and Gent .

Ferdinand von Bothmer is frequently appearing in concerts of Händel, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Bach, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and has been working with conductors like Abbado , Biondi , Bolton , Fischer zu Guttenberg , Hengelbrock , Kuhn , Muti , Rilling , Zedda.