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The Australian conductor and pianist, Richard Bonynge, was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the NSW Conservatory of Music before studying piano at the Royal College of Music in London. He gave up his music scholarship, continuing his private piano studies, and became a coach for singers. One of these was Joan Sutherland, whom he had accompanied in Australia. They soon married and became a duo, first (until 1962) doing recitals. When the current conductor for a recital of operatic arias became ill, Bonynge stepped in and, from that time on, he conducted virtually all of his wife's performances. His debut as staged opera conductor took place in 1963 in Vancouver, BC, where he conducted Faust. The same year, also in Vancouver, he conducted for the first time Norma, starring Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Horne. He also conducted the English Chamber Orchestra in many recordings.

Richard Bonynge's extensive career includes innumerable performances with his wife, Dame Joan Sutherland, culminating in her farewell engagements in opera and recital throughout the world. The two a

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Program: Explore the life and recordings of conductor Richard Bonynge

“It’s our job to make magic. Music can be a very subjective thing, but what I’ve always believed is that when people come to the theatre they should be immersed in magic, and if you don’t get some great feeling of being taken out of yourself and put into another world, then we’re not doing our job.”

We have a lot to thank conductor Richard Bonynge for and not just his famous wife, soprano Dame Joan Sutherland, whose voice he nurtured and trained. Through his tireless scholarly investigation and championship of rare opera and ballet repertoire, he’s had a big impact on our musical tastes too.

“In the ‘50’s people weren’t interested in the music of Gounod, Massenet and Delibes. I was.”

Even in his teens before he left Sydney Bonynge developed a passion for the performing practice of bel canto opera and an interest more broadly in neglected 18th and 19th century operas.

He’s largely responsible for the revival of works by Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, much 19th century French music too and neglected ballets

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Richard Bonynge

Throughout his illustrious career, Richard Bonynge has conducted in the world’s leading opera houses in Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand and Asia. He has received world-wide acclaim as a scholar of bel canto opera and is celebrated for leading the renaissance of eighteenth and early-nineteenth century musical theater, such as 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).

In recent seasons he led performances of La Traviata in Athens, I Capuleti ed I Montecchi in London, Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Scala di Seta, Signor Bruschino, Roméo & Juliette in Sydney, Lucia, Norma and Faust in the United States, La Favorite in Barcelona, I Lombardi in Buenos Aires and Semiramide (Meyerbeer) at the Wildbad Festival, Germany.

Mr. Bonynge’s extensive career includes innumerable performances