Lindy Hume

Lindy Hume
AM
Born (1961-08-25) 25 August 1961 (age 63)
Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationOpera director  • festival director

Lindy Hume AM (born 25 August 1961)[1] is an Australian opera and festival director, who has worked throughout Australia and internationally.

Early life

Hume was born in the Sydney suburb of Paddington and grew up in Glebe and Annandale. Her father taught primary school and also worked as a film censor. Her mother was a psychologist at the University of Sydney.[2]

Career

Hume was Artistic Director of West Australian Opera (1992–1996), OzOpera and Victorian State Opera (1996–2001), and Director of the Perth International Arts Festival (2004–2007).[3]

She was appointed as Director of the Sydney Festival in 2008,[4][5] and led it from 2010 to 2012.[2]

As of June 2017 she is Artistic Director of Opera Queensland.[6] Her productions for Opera Queensland included a 2014 season of Verdi's Rigoletto inspired by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[7] She fosters the creation and presentation of performance in regional Australia, and performances in eight regional Queensland centres of Puccini's La bohème in 2014 featured local singers in the chorus.[8]

Her freelance productions also included a season of Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride for Sydney's Pinchgut Opera, described by Hannah Cunningham of The Sydney Morning Herald as "a near perfect production".[9]

Awards

Hume received Helpmann Awards and Green Room Awards in 2002 for Best Director for the world premiere of Richard Mills' Batavia.[10] Her 2010 Sydney Festival won five Helpmann Awards including Best New Australian Work for Smoke & Mirrors, Best Major Event (Festival First Night), and Best Classical or Orchestral Concert (Oedipus Rex/Symphony of Psalms).[11]

She was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Western Australia in 2007.[12] Hume was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2021 Australia Day Honours, for "For significant service to the performing arts, particularly to opera."[13]

Selected productions

Australia/New Zealand

International

References

  1. ^ Who's Who in Australia. ConnectWeb. 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Break an egg and on with show". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Epic Journey Out West". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 November 2003.
  4. ^ "Lindy Hume takes Fergus Lineham's job at Sydney Festival". The Daily Telegraph. 13 June 2008.
  5. ^ Dagmar Rheinhardt (2012). Youtopia. a Passion for the Dark: Architecture at the Intersection Between Digital Processes and Theatrical Performance. Freerange Press. pp. 8–. ISBN 978-0-9808689-1-3.
  6. ^ Anne Fliotsos; Wendy Vierow (15 October 2013). International Women Stage Directors. University of Illinois Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-252-09585-6.
  7. ^ "Rigoletto: Scandal and intrigue make it an enduring classic for Lindy Hume and Opera Queensland". ABC News. 11 April 2014.
  8. ^ "Opera to recruit ordinary Queenslanders for regional tour". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 February 2014.
  9. ^ Cunningham, Hannah. "Iphigenie en Tauride review: A dramatic feast even the gods approve of". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 2014.
  10. ^ "Melbourne festival blitzes industry awards". The Age. 8 May 2002.
  11. ^ "Full list of winners for the Helpmann Awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 September 2010.
  12. ^ "Holders of Honorary Degrees". University of Western Australia.
  13. ^ "Australia Day 2021 Honours List" (PDF). Governor General of Australia. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  14. ^ Maya Roth; Sara Freeman (2008). International Dramaturgy: Translation & Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker. Peter Lang. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-90-5201-396-1.
  15. ^ Frank Van Straten (2013). Her Majesty's Pleasure: A Centenary Celebration for Adelaide's Theatre of the Stars. Wakefield Press. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-1-74305-229-7.
  16. ^ "'Die Fledermaus' succeeds with style". Houston Chronicle. 30 October 2013.

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