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Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland
Australian soprano
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Louis Quilico
Louis Quilico
Canadian opera singer
2
Huguette Tourangeau
Huguette Tourangeau
French-Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano
3
Marilyn Horne
Marilyn Horne
American mezzo-soprano opera singer
4
Tullio Serafin
Tullio Serafin
Italian conductor
5
Joshua Hecht
Joshua Hecht
American opera singer
6
Jerry Hadley
Jerry Hadley
American opera singer
7
Charles Mackerras
Charles Mackerras
Australian conductor
8
Simone Young
Simone Young
Australian conductor
9
Gavin Sutherland
Gavin Sutherland
British conductor, composer and pianist
10
Maurice Abravanel
Maurice Abravanel
Ottoman-American Jewish conductor
11
Jules Massenet
Jules Massenet
French composer (1842-1912)
12
Carlo Felice Cillario
Carlo Felice Cillario
Italian conductor
13
Eugene Aynsley Goossens
Eugene Aynsley Goossens
English conductor and composer
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Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti
Italian operatic tenor
15
David Parry
David Parry
English conductor
16
Renée Fleming
Renée Fleming
American opera soprano
17
Sumi Jo
Sumi Jo
South Korean operatic soprano
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Jonathan Darlington
Jonathan Darlington
British conductor
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Kiri Te Kanawa
Kiri Te Kanawa
New Zealand opera singer
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Ingvar Wixell
Ingvar Wixell
Swedish opera singer (1931-2011)
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Enrico Di Giuseppe
Enrico Di Giuseppe
American opera singer
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Juan Diego Flórez
Juan Diego Flórez
peruvian tenor
Richard Bonynge
Australian conductor and pianist

Richard Bonynge

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Australian conductor and pianist
Awards Received
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres‎
Companion of the Order of Australia
Officer of the Order of Australia

Richard Alan Bonynge AC, CBE (/ˈbɒnɪŋ/ BON-ing) (born 29 September 1930) is an Australian conductor and pianist. He is the widower of Australian dramatic coloratura soprano Dame Joan Sutherland. Bonynge conducted virtually all of Sutherland's operatic performances from 1962 until her retirement in 1990.