Richard Divall
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Richard Divall AO OBE |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
September 9, 1945 Sydney |
| Origin | Australia |
| Died | January 15, 2017 (aged 71) |
| Genres | Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Conductor and musicologist |
| Associated acts | Victoria State Opera, Opera Australia, Joseph Post |
Richard Sydney Divall AO OBE (9 September 1945 – 15 January 2017) was an Australian conductor and musicologist.
After nine years as a music producer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, from 1972 on the invitation of Dame Joan Hammond he became the music director of the Victoria State Opera in Melbourne, where he remained for 25 years. A further five years were spent as Principal Resident Conductor of Opera Australia. His teachers included Joseph Post, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Reginald Goodall and Wolfgang Wagner. He was born in Sydney.
Divall conducted many concerts, ballets and 151 operas, particularly works of the late baroque, Mozart, Handel, Gounod,Berlioz and Verdi. These included the complete operas of Claudio Monteverdi, Berlioz's Les Troyens and Richard Strauss' Elektra. He conducted Verdi's Don Carlos, the first opera to be staged in the State Theatre of the Victorian Arts Centre in 1984.
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