

Richard Bonynge is renowned as one of the finest opera conductors of his generation.
His musicianship has been acclaimed around the globe – but it is at home in Australia that many of his closest musical collaborations have developed.
This collection, released in celebration of the maestro’s 85th birthday, celebrates his rich legacy on ABC Classics, drawing on four decades of recordings: from Handel and Mozart to the great bel canto repertoire and Viennese operatta, including never-before-released recordings of Joan Sutherland, and classic recordings of French opera arias now issued on an album for the first time.
CD1 Mozart Opera Arias
Classic arias and duets from The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute.
Featuring Isobel Buchanan, Deborah Riedel, Michael Martin, Roger Lemke, Stephen Bennett
and John Pringle.
CD2 Highlights from French and Italian Opera
Popular favourites and rediscovered treasures by Bellini, Donizetti, Delibes, Offenbach, Auber and more.
Featuring Joan Sutherland, Angela Denning, Glenys Fowles, Heather Begg and Anson Austin.
CD3 Viennese Operetta
A sparkling, joyous album of gems by Strauss, Lehár, Kreisler, Kálmán and more.
Featuring Yvonne Kenny.
CD4 Handel: Rodelinda
Selections from Handel’s rarely performed masterpiece, recorded live in concert.
Featuring Valda Wilson, Fiona Janes, Lorina Gore, Liane Keegan and John Longmuir.
TRACKLISTING
Richard Bonynge conductor (all tracks)
CD1 Mozart opera arias
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO
1 Non più andrai
2 Crudel! Perchè finora
3 Vedrò mentr’io sospiro
4 Dove sono i bei momenti
COSÌ FAN TUTTE
5 Come scoglio
6 Donne mie, la fate a tanti
DON GIOVANNI
7 Là ci darem la mano
8 Batti, batti, o bel Masetto
9 Vedrai, carino
THE MAGIC FLUTE
10 Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen
11 Ach, ich fühl’s, es ist verschwunden
12 Pa-Pa-Pa-Papagena
Isobel Buchanan, John Pringle, Queensland Symphony Orchestra
THE MAGIC FLUTE
13 Overture
14 Hm Hm Hm Hm!
15 O Isis and Osiris
16 So Will We Never Meet Again?
17 Now, Marching Down the Road of Morning
Deborah Riedel, Michael Martin, Roger Lemke, Stephen Bennett, Opera Australia Chorus, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
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CD2 French and Italian opera arias
1 ADAM Canari, mon chéri from Les Pantins de Violette
2 DONIZETTI Sa misère est si grande from Dom Sébastien
3 AUBER Dès l’enfance from Le Serment / Fra Diavolo
4 OFFENBACH Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann
5 DONIZETTI O mon Fernand from La Favorite
6 AUBER Buvons tous au Sultan Misapouf from L’Ambassadrice
7–10 DELIBES Selections from Lakmé
Angela Denning, Glenys Fowles, Heather Begg, Anson Austin, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
11–12 BELLINI Quì la voce...Vien, diletto from I puritani
13 THOMAS À vos jeux, mes amis from Hamlet
Joan Sutherland, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
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CD3
1 J. STRAUSS II Grüss dich Gott (Entrance of the Countess) from Wiener Blut
2 ZELLER Schenkt man sich Rosen in Tirol (Roses fromTyrol) from Der Vogelhändler 3 SIECZYNSKI Wien, du Stadt meiner Träume (Vienna, City of My Dreams)
4 KÁLMÁN Heia, Heia (Entrance Song) from The Gypsy Princess
5 ZELLER Sei nicht bös (Don’t Be Cross) from Der Obersteiger
6 LEHÁR Einer wird kommen (Someone Will Come) from Der Zarewitsch
7 J. STRAUSS II The Nuns’ Chorus from Casanova
8 STOLZ Mein Liebeslied muss ein Walzer sein (My Love Song Must Be a Waltz) from White Horse Inn
9 HEUBERGER Im Chambre séparée (A Private Room) from The Opera Ball
10 LEHÁR Meine Lippen, sie küssen so heiss (My Lips Kiss So Hotly) from Giuditta
11–12 LEHÁR Vilia / Love Unspoken from The Merry Widow
13 LEHÁR Hör’ ich Cymbalklänge (When I Hear the Sound of the Cimbalom) from Zigeunerliebe
14 KREISLER Stars in My Eyes
15 ABRAHAM Toujours l’amour (All for Love) from Ball im Savoy
16 NOVELLO Some Day My Heart Will Awake from King’s Rhapsody
17 NOVELLO My Dearest Dear from The Dancing Years
18 ABRAHAM Good Night from Victoria and Her Hussar
Yvonne Kenny, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
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CD4
1–23 HANDEL Rodelinda, Regina de’ Longobardi (Rodelinda, Queen of Lombardy): selections
Valda Wilson, Lorina Gore, Fiona Janes, Liane Keegan, John Longmuir, Sydney Lyric Orchestra