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Richard Divall

*1945 AU
Composer / Producer / Conductor of Classical
A.k.a. Richard Sydney Divall

Richard Divall AO, OBE (born 9 September 1945, Sydney) is a 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 twenty-five years. A further five years were spent as Principal Resident Conductor of Opera Australia. His teachers included Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Reginald Goodall and Wolfgang Wagner.