A report on Richard Bonynge

Tenor Colin Lee, soprano Pretty Yende, Bonynge, mezzo-soprano Violina Anguelov and baritone George Stevens at a concert performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Cape Town in April 2013

Australian conductor and pianist.

- Richard Bonynge
Tenor Colin Lee, soprano Pretty Yende, Bonynge, mezzo-soprano Violina Anguelov and baritone George Stevens at a concert performance of Lucia di Lammermoor in Cape Town in April 2013

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Sutherland in 1975

Joan Sutherland

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Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

Sutherland in 1975
Sutherland in 1962
Joan Sutherland in 1990

Sutherland married Australian conductor and pianist Richard Bonynge on 16 October 1954.

Original poster for the premiere

Esclarmonde

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Opéra in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue, by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis Ferdinand de Gramont.

Opéra in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue, by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis Ferdinand de Gramont.

Original poster for the premiere

The opera has been revived sporadically in the modern era, most notably during the 1970s with Joan Sutherland, conducted by Massenet champion Richard Bonynge.

Marilyn Horne

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American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

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Beniamino Prior as Wilhelm Meister and Marilyn Horne as the titular Mignon, Edmonton Opera, 1978.
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Bellini: Norma (Sutherland, J. Alexander, Cross; Richard Bonynge, 1964) Decca

Massenet photographed by Pierre Petit, 1880

Jules Massenet

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French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

Massenet photographed by Pierre Petit, 1880
Massenet's birthplace in Montaud, photographed c. 1908
Massenet in the early 1860s
Auditorium of the Opéra-Comique
Poster for the première of Don César de Bazan by Célestin Nanteuil
Design by Philippe Chaperon for Le roi de Lahore, 1877
"M. Massenet's bland pâtisserie and Mlle. Sanderson's sugar-candy notes" baked in "the National Musical Oven". Caricature from La Silhouette, March 1894.
Poster for the first French production of Werther.
Mary Garden in the title role of Chérubin, 1905
Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for the 1912 Paris première of Roma.
Poster by Jean de Paleologu for ''Sapho, 1897
Poster by Georges Rochegrosse for Don Quichotte, 1910
Among Massenet's interpreters, clockwise from top left: Pierre Monteux, Renée Fleming, Roberto Alagna and Victoria de los Ángeles
Massenet in his later years

Conductors on these discs include Sir Thomas Beecham, Richard Bonynge, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Patrick Fournillier, Sir Charles Mackerras, Pierre Monteux, Sir Antonio Pappano and Michel Plasson.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as viewed from the Royal Botanic Gardens

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

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Heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Heritage-listed music school in Macquarie Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as viewed from the Royal Botanic Gardens
Sydney Conservatorium of Music, as viewed from the Royal Botanic Gardens
Conservatorium of Music during Macquarie Night Lights from 23 November to 25 December 2006
Verbrugghen Hall, named after the first director of the Conservatorium

Richard Bonynge, however, who graduated in 1950, felt that it was Goossens who turned the Conservatorium into a world-class institution, lifting standards and exposing students to sophisticated 20th-century scores (particularly those of Debussy and Ravel).

Logo of the company

Opera Australia

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Principal opera company in Australia.

Principal opera company in Australia.

Logo of the company
Sydney Opera House, home of Opera Australia, illuminated at night
Sydney Opera House, 2010
Stage of Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour 2013

While not yet appearing with this company, Joan Sutherland, then an internationally known Australian soprano, and her husband, the conductor Richard Bonynge, helped the cause of opera in general in Australia during the 1960s.

Scenes from the Paris premiere

The Tales of Hoffmann

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Opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach.

Opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach.

Scenes from the Paris premiere
The death of Antonia (act 2) in the original 1881 production. In front: Adèle Isaac; in back (left to right): Hippolyte Belhomme, Marguerite Ugalde, Pierre Grivot, Émile-Alexandre Taskin, Jean-Alexandre Talazac.
Costume design for Hoffmann in act 1, 1903
Prologue (or epilogue), in the 1881 première
The Olympia act, as staged at the 1881 première
Antonia and Dr. Miracle, 1881
Giuletta act, 1881
The original E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822)

Note: In the original version, Hoffmann, furious at being betrayed, tries to stab Giulietta but - blinded by Dapertutto - mistakenly kills his dwarf Pittichinaccio; in Richard Bonynge's version, Giulietta is poisoned and dies, by accidentally drinking the philter Dapertutto prepares for Nicklausse.

Simon Tedeschi

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Australian classical pianist and writer.

Australian classical pianist and writer.

In 2004 he recorded Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto and Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra with Richard Bonynge.

Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4538

The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala

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Televised concert, lasting more than eight hours, that New York City's Metropolitan Opera staged on 22 October 1983 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of its first performance.

Televised concert, lasting more than eight hours, that New York City's Metropolitan Opera staged on 22 October 1983 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of its first performance.

Deutsche Grammophon DVD, 00440-073-4538
Kathleen Battle
Sesto Bruscantini
Renato Bruson
Grace Bumbry
Montserrat Caballé
José Carreras
Plácido Domingo
Mirella Freni
Nicolai Gedda
Nicolai Ghiaurov
Marilyn Horne
Kiri Te Kanawa
Alfredo Kraus
Catherine Malfitano
James McCracken
Edda Moser
Robert Nagy
Birgit Nilsson
Luciano Pavarotti
Roberta Peters
Leontyne Price
Ruggero Raimondi
Katia Ricciarelli
Elisabeth Söderström
Frederica von Stade
Joan Sutherland
Leonard Bernstein
James Levine

6 (5:13) "La calunnia è un venticello", with Ruggero Raimondi (Basilio), conducted by Richard Bonynge

Rosamund Illing

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English Australian soprano.

English Australian soprano.

Together with Richard Bonynge and the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra Illing was nominated for the 2000 ARIA Award for Best Classical Album for the album Amoureuse: Sacred and Profane Arias.