About this user
Doug Botnick is a baritone with a sonorous tone and probing, elegant, stylish delivery of music and words. He is ideally suited for Italian verismo and bel canto, as well as Wagnerian repertoire: Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera, Rodrigo in Don Carlo, di Luna in Il Trovatore, the title role in Rigoletto, Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor, Riccardo in I Puritani, plus roles such as Tonio in Pagliacci, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Gerard in Andrea Chénier, Wolfram in Tannhäuser, Donner in Das Rheingold, Orest in Elektra, Tabor in The Ballad of Baby Doe, among many others.
Recent engagements include the role of Renato in Un Ballo in Maschera at Wichita Grand Opera and Pacific Repertory Opera in San Luis Obispo, CA and Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem with the Monterey Symphony Orchestra. Recently Mr. Botnick was engaged by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra to cover the role of Emile de Beque in South Pacific and by the Los Angeles Opera to sing staging rehearsals and cover Amonasro in Aïda. Among his many engagement in the western United States, Mr. Botnick has been heard at the Hollywood Bowl as Doolittle in My Fair Lady with the Los Angles Philharmonic and as the baritone soloist in Bach's St. Matthew Passion with the Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Future engagements include the roles of Don Carlo in La Forza del Destino at Casa Italiano in Los Angeles and Rigoletto at New Horizons in North Hills, CA.
Mr. Botnick's solo concert repertoire includes works for orchestra and chorus by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mahler, Ravel, and R. Strauss, Vaughan Williams as well as songs by Rogers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Porter, Sondheim, Webber, and John Williams.
Mr. Botnick was a prize winner in the San Francisco Opera National Auditions and member of the San Francisco Opera Merola Program. In addition, he was an apprentice with Santa Fe Opera. He was also a finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
He is currently studying with Lee Sweetland, Linda Hall, William Vendice, Armen Guzelimian, and Victoria Kirsch. Past teachers include Fritz Zweig, Jack Metz, Dean Verhines,
Raul Herrera, and Evalini Colorni.
