Richard Bonynge
(Conductors)
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Richard Bonynge
(Conductors) Biography:
Born in 1930 in Sydney, Australia, Richard Bonynge studied at the NSW Conservatorium of Music and the Royal College of Music, London and in 1954 married the soprano Joan Sutherland. He became Musical Director of the Sutherland-Williamson Grand Opera Company in 1965 (Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane), Artistic Director of the Vancouver Opera, 1974 -77 and Musical Director of The Australian Opera, 1976 - 86. Awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) and the AO (Order of Australia) in 1977, Commandeur de l'Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres in 1989 and made "Soci d'onore", R. Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, 2007.Richard Bonynge is acknowledged as a leading scholar of bel canto opera, 19th century French opera and 19th century ballet music. He has conducted at most of the world's great opera houses including The Royal Opera House Covent Garden, La Scala Milan, Metropolitan Opera New York, Chicago Lyric Opera, Gran Teatre Del Liceu Barcelona and Sydney Opera House. His repertoire consists mainly of 18th century opera, the great bel canto repertoire, French 19th century opera, 19th century ballet and opera, the operas of Mozart and Handel, and many operettas. He has revived many operas which were not at the time part of the repertoire: Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer), Semiramide, Sigismondo (Rossini), La Fille du Régiment, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia (Donizetti), Esclarmonde, Le Roi de Lahore, Thérèse (Massenet), Medea (Pacini), Orfeo (Haydn), I Masnadieri (Verdi).He has recorded over 50 complete operas as well as the three great Tchaikovsky ballets, three Delibes ballets and countless relatively unknown ballets of Adam, Minkus, Burgmuller, Auber, Drigo, Offenbach. Has recorded several recital discs with Sumi Jo, Jerry Hadley, Deborah Riedel, Rosamund Illing, Cheryl Barker and Elizabeth Whitehouse. His latest recordings are Le Domino Noir (Auber), Le Toréador (Adam), Der Czarevich, Das Land des Lächelns, Paganini, Giuditta (Lehar), Cendrillon (Nicolo), Orfeo (Haydn), Die Herzogin von Chicago and Die Czardasfürstin (Kálmán), British Opera Arias (Balfe, Wallace, Sullivan), Sacred and Profane Arias (Massenet), Puccini Arias (Puccini), La Somnambule (Hérold), Verismo Arias and Tchaikovsky & Grieg piano concertos with Simon Tedeschi and the Queensland Orchestra. He has also made videos of Les Huguenots, La Fille du Régiment, Adriana Lecouvreur, Die Lustige Witwe, Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Norma, Die Fledermaus, Lucrezia Borgia, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lakmé, Il Trovatore, Die Zauberflöte, Die Czardasfürstin. Among his most recent performances in the theatre have been La Traviata in Athens, I Capuleti ed I Montecchi and Roberto Devereaux in London, Norma, Lucia, La Scala di Seta, Signor Bruschino, Roméo & Juliette,Lakmé, Il barbiere di Siviglia in Australia, Lucia, Norma, Faust and La Sonnambula in the United States, La Favorite in Barcelona, I Lombardi in Buenos Aires and Semiramide (Meyerbeer) at the Wildbad Festival, Germany. This biography is for website use only. For a full and updated biography please email info@ingpen.co.uk Contact Details: Territories: |
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