Tarita Botsman
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Tarita Botsman is an Australian operatic soprano, actor, writer and director.
Education[edit]
Botsman is a graduate of Brisbane Girls Grammar. She completed her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, whilst also studying acting at QUT, graduated from the Opera Course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama and studied with international singing teacher Margaret Baker Genovesi in Rome, Italy.[citation needed]
She is currently[when?] completing her PhD at University of Queensland.[1]
Career[edit]
She made her operatic debut at 22 years of age with Opera Queensland. She studied in Italy, UK and Germany, where she performed over twenty operatic roles. She has performed as an actor, written several shows and has directed various theatrical productions, concerts and ceremonies.[citation needed]
Internationally she has sung as a soloist for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in London, the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, for the Mother of the UAE, Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi, and toured throughout the UK, Morocco, Italy, France, Japan, Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia.[citation needed]
She performed in the role of Sophie for the Australian premiere of Terrence McNally's play Master Class with Queensland Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Melbourne Theatre Company alongside Robyn Nevin and Amanda Muggleton, directed by Rodney Fisher.[citation needed]
In 2000 Botsman directed, produced and tour-managed the one man play The Christian Brothers by Australian writer Ron Blair, starring Laurence Coy, throughout the Republic of Ireland which saw it invited to be performed at Dublin Theatre Festival, the Galway International Arts Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.[citation needed]
In 2009 she created The 7 Sopranos, who have been consistently in high demand worldwide.[2] They have been working alongside internationally recognised independent producing house Cre8ion since 2014.[3]
Botsman has written several new music theatre works, including Songs from Stage and Screen, Reverie, Brave and Aria Botanica. In 2018 she was assistant director to Daniel Slater for the production of Peter Grimes produced by Opera Queensland and Brisbane Festival.[4]
2018 and 2019 she was the ceremony director for the Australian Women in Music Awards.[5][6]
Currently[when?] she is developing a new theatre work with producers in Australia and the US, based on an original creative treatment she has developed for stage and TV.[citation needed]
Recognition and awards[edit]
Botsman has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Monash University Italian Studies Award, the Ian Potter Cultural Trust Travel Award, a recipient of funding from the Tait Memorial Trust[7] in the UK, and an Arts Queensland Artist Individual Development Grant.
Botsman is the recipient of Young Australian of the Year (Arts Category) in 1996, Young Queenslander of the Year in the same year, and a Queen’s Trust Award for Excellence in the Arts.[citation needed]
Discography[edit]
- 2013: The 7 Sopranos; ABC Classics
- 2014: Treasures; Cre8ion[8]
- 2016: Popcorn – Songs from Stage and Screen; Cre8ion
References[edit]
- ^ "Bio". tarita.com.au. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "The 7 Sopranos | International Arts Manager". Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Fons. La soprano Tarita Botsman enchante l'église". La Dépêche du Midi (in French). 13 August 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ Brisbane Festival (19 September 2018). "Peter Grimes in-theatre program". Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Australian Women in Music Awards Inaugural Awards 2018" (PDF). 10 October 2018. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Australian Women in Music Awards Ceremony & Program 2019" (PDF). 8 October 2019. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ "Awards 1992–1999 – Tait Memorial Trust". 21 October 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2022.
- ^ Mengel, Noel (17 November 2014). "Yusuf still a hep Cat after all these years". news.com.au. Retrieved 10 April 2022.