Background
Bonynge, Richard was born on September 29, 1930 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Carl Bonynge.
Bonynge, Richard was born on September 29, 1930 in Sydney, Australia. Son of Carl Bonynge.
Alcina, La Sonnambula, Norma, Beatrice di Tenda, I Puritani. Faust, Semiramide, Lakme, La Fille du Regiment, Messiah, Don Giovanni. Les Huguenots, L’Elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto, The Tales of Hoffmann, Therese (Massenet), numerous orchestral w'orks, ballet including Giselle, Coppelia, Sylvia, The Nutcracker. Debut as conductor with Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome 1962. Conducted first opera Faust, Vancouver 1963. Director, Principal Conductor Sutherland/Williamson Institute Grand Opera Company, Australia 1965.
Artistic Director Vancouver Opera Association since 1974. Musical Director Australian Opera 1975-1985.
Debut as conductor Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Rome, 1962, as opera conductor Faust, Vancouver, Canada, 1963. Conductor world opera houses Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Chicago Opera, Teatro Liceo, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Colon, Edinburgh Festival, Vienna Festival, Florence Festival. Performed Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Warsaw, Lisbon, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Madrid, Hamburg, Munich, Dublin, Moscow, St. Petersburg.Principal conductor, artistic and music director various companies including: Sutherland-Williamson International Grand Opera Company, 1965, Vancouver Opera, 1974-1977, Australian Opera, 1976-1986. Opera recordings include: Beatrice di Tenda, Norma, I Puritani, La Sonnambula, Lakmé, L'Elisir D'Amore, La Fille du Régiment, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Stuarda, Faust, Alcina, Giulio Cesare, The Merry Widow, L'Oracolo, Esclarmonde, Le Roi de Lahore, Thérèse, Les Huguenots, Don Giovanni, Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Suor Angelica, Semiramide, Die Fledermaus, Hamlet, I Masnadieri, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Anna Bolena, Ernani, Adriana Lecouvreur, others. Ballet recordings include: Le Diable a Quatre, Giselle, Marco Spada, La Péri, Coppelia, Sylvia, Le Carillon, La Cigale, Le Papillon, La Boutique Fantasque, Aschenbrödel, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, La Source, Le Corsaire, La Flute Enchantée, Le Reveil de Flore, Manon, others.Recital discs with Sutherland, Tebaldi, Tourangeau, Pavarotti.
Married Joan Sutherland, 1954. 1 child, Adam.