Richard Alan Bonynge, born September 29, 1930, in Epping, New South Wales,
Australia, is an Australian conductor and pianist. Bonynge studied piano at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music under Lindley Evans and at the Royal College of
Music in London under Herbert Fryer. Having married soprano Joan Sutherland in
1954, Bonynge worked as her vocal coach and accompanist before making his
operatic conducting debut in 1962, subsequently conducting nearly all of her
performances and leading a revival of 18th- and 19th-century bel canto and
French opera repertoire [96–99]. His discograph...