His stage repertoire included Belmonte in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Chapelou in Adolphe Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Count Almaviva in Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Daniel in Franz Lehár's…
Born in Hamburg, Bötel worked in his father's carriage business from the age of 14 to 18. After he had fulfilled his military duty with a hussar regiment, he resumed his civil existence as a coachman in 1876. [3 ]