Bonaventura Bottone (born 19 September 1950 in London) is an operatic tenor who has performed at many of the world's leading opera houses. He trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The Academy awarded him a Fellowship in 1998. He is described by the New Grove Dictionary of Opera as "a superb actor with a strong, lyrical voice" who "excels in comic roles". Early career Bonaventura Bottone made his professional debut as Count Almaviva in The Barber of Seville with Welsh National Opera in 1973. He subsequently sang Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor in Belfast, a Servant in Richard Strauss's Capriccio with Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Bardolfo in Verdi's Falstaff for Glyndebourne Touring Opera in 1976. He appeared at the Wexford Festival for three consecutive seasons (1977–1979) in Smetana's The Two Widows, Luigi and Federico Ricci's Crispino e la comare and Montemezzi's L'amore dei tre re. English National Opera Bonaventura Bottone has enjoyed a long and creatively rich partnership with English National Opera. He has created more than twenty roles with the company in diverse repertoire. His roles with the company include: Puccini's Rodolfo (La bohème), Luigi (Il tabarro), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly); Verdi's Duke of Mantua (Rigoletto); Weill's Sam Kaplan (Street Scene); Gilbert and Sullivan's Nanki-Poo (The Mikado); Offenbach's Mercury (Orphée aux enfers) and Menelaus (La Belle Helene); Berlioz' Faust (La Damnation de Faust) and Tchaikovsky's Lensky (Eugene Onegin). Royal Opera House Covent Garden Bottone's appearances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden include: Der Rosenkavalier (Italian Singer); Die Fledermaus (Alfred); Les Huguenots (Raoul); Otello (Cassio); Il viaggio a Reims (Count Libenskof); Capriccio (Italian Singer); Sweeney Todd (Pirelli), L'heure espagnole (Torquemade), La fanciulla del West (Nick), Adriana Lecouvreur (Abbé de Chazeuil) and Le Nozze di Figaro (Don Basilio). He also took part in Dame Joan Sutherland's farewell appearance at Covent Garden. Career in Britain Bottone has also sung with: Welsh National Opera, where his roles have included Turridu (Cavalleria rusticana) and Le comte Ory; Opera North, where his roles have included Vana (Katya Kabanova), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail) and Nemorino (L'elisir d'amore); and Scottish Opera, where his roles have included Jack (The Midsummer Marriage), Narraboth (Salome) and Loge (Das Rheingold). For Glyndebourne Festival Opera, he has sung Alfred (Die Fledermaus), the Italian Tenor (Capriccio) and Tzar Berendey (The Snow Maiden). Career in Europe Bonaventura Bottone's European engagements include: Die Fledermaus (Alfred) at the Opéra National de