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"Singers and orchestra all performed superbly under the baton of veteran bel canto specialist Richard Bonynge." - Don Pasquale, Opera Holland Park, The Oxford Times, June 29, 2011
"...the work had more or less vanished until Richard Bonynge prepared the new performing edition that he conducts on this recording...; altogether it's a real rarity that's a must at bargain price for anyone interested in 19th-century opera." - CD Review, Wallace: Lurline on Naxos, The Guardian, June 24, 2010
"Keeping everything impressively under control was conductor Richard Bonynge. This was a sentimental though entirely appropriate return for the great bel canto specialist. Our Vancouver Opera orchestra was his innovation many decades ago. One hopes that working with it after all these years gives Bonynge a much-deserved sense of lasting accomplishment. Today it is a reliable, disciplined pit orchestra, whose sensitive support of the singers ensured the evening's success." - Norma, Vancouver Opera, The Vancouver Sun, November 29, 2009
"Opera Holland Park's outstanding new production will hopefully secure the work a place in the regular repertoire. The conductor is Richard Bonynge, the director Lindsay Posner: both are strong on the sense of psychological malaise that lurks beneath the work's brilliant, if unsteady surface. Bonynge's sense of pacing is immaculate, so that every arpeggio and rhythmic figuration betrays someone's strained mental state. " - Roberto Devereux, Opera Holland Park, UK, The Guardian, June 5, 2009
"Conducting, Richard Bonynge shows his decades of experience in his authoritative but understated support for his singers, and a well-crafted blend in the ensemble." - Roberto Devereux, Opera Holland Park, UK, The Times, June 4, 2009
"Under leading bel canto expert Richard Bonynge, the score crackles throughout." - Roberto Devereux, Opera Holland Park, UK, The Stage Review, June 3, 2009
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 Don Pasquale, Opera Holland Park, The Oxford Times (June 29, 2011)
CD Review, Wallace: Lurline on Naxos, The Guardian (June 24, 2010)
Norma, Vancouver Opera, The Vancouver Sun (November 29, 2009)
I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Opera Australia, The Brisbane Times (August 13, 2009)
Roberto Devereux, Opera Holland Park, UK, The Guardian (June 5, 2009)
Roberto Devereux, Opera Holland Park, UK, The Times (June 4, 2009)
Roberto Devereux, Opera Holland Park, UK, The Stage Review (June 3, 2009)
The Miami Herald reviews La Sonnambula (February 11, 2007)
ABC Brisbane (October 20, 2006)
The Guardian (July 28, 2006)
State of the Arts (May 9, 2006)
Various with Dallas Opera (December 15, 2001)
Los Angeles Times (February 19, 2001)
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