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Tarita Carbo is an opera singer, recitalist, actress, musical theatre and operetta singer. Tarita made her professional operatic debut in Australia at the tender age of 22 years of age in the role of Papagena in The Magic Flute for Opera Queensland.
Testimonials
"Tarita's just terrific in the role of Oksana and a young lyric coloratura
with a bright tone to watch out for"
Opera magazine, UK
"Tarita Botsman as Maria won the crowd"
River Symphony concert of Westside
Story, Brisbane Festival
"Her performance of Send in The Clowns was easily the highlight of the
evening"
The Courier Mail
"Tarita Botsman performed confidently as a singer with a string of awards behind her should with a very good technique and an excellent bright coloratura facility"
Opera Opera magazine
" Tarita Botsman is a delight as the befeathered Papagena combining acting
skills with a first class voice"
The Australian
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Operatic roles she has performed for opera companies in Australia, the UK and in Germany include Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Adina in L'Elisir d'Amore, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Susanna/Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, Melantho in Penelope, Frasquita in Carmen, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, Musetta in La Boheme, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Gretel and The Dew Fairy in Hansel und Gretel, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, Oksana in Tcherevichki, The Governess in The Turn of the Screw, Annchen in Der Freischutz and Pamina in The Magic Flute.
Tarita is a graduate of the prestigious opera course of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London in the UK and the Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Brisbane in Australia where she obtained her degree and her postgraduate qualifications.
Tarita has also studied in Rome privately on various prestigious overseas scholarships such as the Queen's Trust Award from the UK, the Monash University Italian Studies Grant from Melbourne in Australia and the Ian Potter Cultural Grant. Tarita studied in Rome under the tuition of world renowned teacher Margaret Baker Genovesi. She was also invited to work as a part of the Young Artist's Course at the Munich State Opera in Germany in 2000.
Tarita was a winner of the Young Australian of the Year in 1998 and Young Queenslander of the Year awards for her enthusiastic energy and contribution to opera in Australia.
Her concert and oratorio repertoire performed in the UK, Germany and Australia has included Handel's Messiah, Orff's Carmina Burana, Vivaldi's Gloria, Bach's St Mathew Passion, Mozart's Reqiuem, Faure's Requiem and Mendelssohn's Elijah. Tarita has performed as a soloist with many of Australia's major orchestras and many orchestras in the UK. She has been invited and performed in solo recitals in the UK, Italy, Pacific Islands, Japan, United Arab Emirates and Morocco.
Tarita first began her life as a singer in choirs and musicals and as a back up singer to major Australian popular artists from the age of 13. Musical theatre has always been her first passion however opera took over as her voice was recognised as having cross over potential whilst at the Queensland Conservatorium. Leading musical theatre roles to date have included Maria in Westside Story, Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Sandy in Grease and Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music.
Tarita also created the acting role of a young opera singer calleed Sophie de Palma in the Australian premiere of Terence McNally's play Masterclass, the life story of Maria Callas at the Sydney Opera House in 2001. This role brought invitations to perform the same role with all the major state theatre companies in Australia.
In 2004 Tarita set up a music business called Sirens of Song. Tarita now employs classical artists from all over Australia who perform at corporate functions throughout Australia and in South East Asia. Tarita's business is now expanding also in to the concert sector with her own show Sirens of Song making opera more accessible to all through the use of stunning costumes, hilarious characters and well known music.
Her aim in setting up this business was to continue her performing whilst also giving other talented singers a chance to perform, support young singing mothers and to support singers who chose to stay in Australia to pursue their careers. Tarita currently employs nine singers in Sydney and Brisbane and a pianist on a free lance basis who perform as a part of the corporate and concert act Sirens of Song.
Her most major and recent production is her four year old son Zachary and in her spare time she manages the logistics of the career of her baritone husband, Jose Carbo, one of Australia's most successful operatic exports. |
