Born in Trieste, the tenor Riccardo Botta began his career as a singer early under his father, Giuseppe Botta, Giuseppe Taddei and Enza Ferrari. With a varied concert career appearing with leading orchestras in Rome and Milan among others, he has undertaken a variety of rôles in major opera-houses. Success in the Toti dal Monte Competition in Treviso in 1996, opened the doors for him to engagements throughout Italy, in Venice, Cagliari, Parma, Milan, Turin, Bergamo, Bologna, Siena, Rome and Palermo, with appearances abroad in Lisbon, Monaco, Amsterdam, Zurich, Warsaw and Toronto, at the Semperoper in Dresden, the Stuttgart State Theatre and the Leipzig Opera. He has collaborated in performances under conductors including Callegari, Rovaris, Arrivabeni, Chung, Sanii, Zedda and Julian Reynolds.