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


Early life

Hume was born in the
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suburb of
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and grew up in
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and Annandale. Her father taught primary school and also worked as a film censor. Her mother was a psychologist at the
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.


Career

Hume was Artistic Director of
West Australian Opera West Australian Opera (WAO) is the principal opera company of Western Australia, and is a resident company at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth. The company formed in 1967 and works in close association with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. ...
(1992–1996), OzOpera and Victorian State Opera (1996–2001), and Director of the
Perth International Arts Festival Perth Festival, named Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) between 2000 and 2017, and sometimes referred to as the Festival of Perth, is Australia's longest-running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features ...
(2004–2007). She was appointed as Director of the
Sydney Festival Sydney Festival is a major arts festival in Australia's largest city, Sydney, that runs for three weeks every January since it was established in 1977. The festival program features over 100 events from local and international artists and inclu ...
in 2008, and led it from 2010 to 2012. As of June 2017 she is Artistic Director of
Opera Queensland Opera Queensland is an opera company based in Brisbane, Queensland. The company was founded with funding from the Queensland State Government in 1981 under the name ''Lyric Opera of Queensland'' after the Queensland Opera Company was closed in ...
. Her productions for Opera Queensland included a 2014 season of
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's ''
Rigoletto ''Rigoletto'' is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play '' Le roi s'amuse'' by Victor Hugo. Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had c ...
'' inspired by Italian Prime Minister
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. She fosters the creation and presentation of performance in regional Australia, and performances in eight regional Queensland centres of Puccini's ''
La bohème ''La bohème'' ( , ) is an opera in four acts,Puccini called the divisions '':wikt:quadro, quadri'', ''wikt:tableau, tableaux'' or "images", rather than ''atti'' (acts). composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1893 and 1895 to an Italian libretto b ...
'' in 2014 featured local singers in the chorus. Her freelance productions also included a season of Gluck's ''
Iphigénie en Tauride ''Iphigénie en Tauride'' (, ''Iphigenia in Tauris'') is a 1779 opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck in four acts. It was his fifth opera for the French stage. The libretto was written by Nicolas-François Guillard. With ''Iphigénie,'' Gluck too ...
'' for Sydney's Pinchgut Opera, described by Hannah Cunningham of ''
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'' as "a near perfect production".


Awards

Hume received
Helpmann Awards The Helpmann Awards are accolades for live entertainment and performing arts in Australia, presented by industry group Live Performance Australia (LPA) since 2001. The annual awards recognise achievements in the disciplines of musical theatre ...
and
Green Room Awards The Green Room Awards are Australian peer awards which recognise excellence in cabaret, dance, theatre companies, independent theatre, musical theatre, contemporary and experimental performance, and opera. The awards, which were established in ...
in 2002 for Best Director for the world premiere of Richard Mills' '' Batavia''. 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''). She was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the
University of Western Australia University of Western Australia (UWA) is a public research university in the Australian state of Western Australia. The university's main campus is in Crawley, Western Australia, Crawley, a suburb in the City of Perth local government area. UW ...
in 2007. Hume was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the
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, for "For significant service to the performing arts, particularly to opera."


Selected productions


Australia/New Zealand

* ''Carmen, Don Giovanni, Fledermaus, La Périchole, Les pêcheurs de perles'' (
Opera Australia Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, New South Wales, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra runs for approximately eight months of the year, with t ...
) * ''Cinderella, Rigoletto'' (
Opera Queensland Opera Queensland is an opera company based in Brisbane, Queensland. The company was founded with funding from the Queensland State Government in 1981 under the name ''Lyric Opera of Queensland'' after the Queensland Opera Company was closed in ...
) * ''The Love of the Nightingale'' (
Perth International Arts Festival Perth Festival, named Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) between 2000 and 2017, and sometimes referred to as the Festival of Perth, is Australia's longest-running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features ...
) * ''Orlando, Trouble in Tahiti, The Barber of Seville'' (OzOpera) * ''Alcina, Orpheus in the Underworld'' (
West Australian Opera West Australian Opera (WAO) is the principal opera company of Western Australia, and is a resident company at His Majesty's Theatre, Perth. The company formed in 1967 and works in close association with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. ...
) * ''Carmina Burana'' (
State Opera of South Australia State Opera South Australia (SOSA) is a professional opera company in Adelaide, South Australia, established in 1976. History State Opera South Australia was established in 1976 as a statutory corporation under the ''State Opera of South Au ...
/
The Australian Ballet The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia. It was founded by J. C. Williamson Theatres Ltd and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1962, with the English-born dancer, teacher, repetiteur a ...
) * ''Idomeneo'', ''Iphigénie en Tauride'' ( Pinchgut Opera) * ''Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor'' ( New Zealand Opera).


International

* ''La bohème'' (
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– Berlin) * ''The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus'' (
Houston Grand Opera Houston Grand Opera (HGO) is an American opera company located in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1955 by German-born impresario Walter Herbert and three local Houstonians,Giesberg, Robert I., Carl Cunningham, and Alan Rich. ''Houston Grand Opera at ...
) * ''Tolomeo'' ( Muziektheater Transparant – Belgium) * ''Don Pasquale'' (
Oper Leipzig The Leipzig Opera () is an opera house and opera company located at the Augustusplatz and the Inner City Ring Road at its east side in Leipzig's district Mitte, Germany. History Performances of opera in Leipzig trace back to Singspiel perfo ...
) * ''Radamisto'' ( Handel Festspiele and Opernhaus Halle) * ''A Streetcar Named Desire, Norma'' (Opera Theatre St Gallen – Switzerland) * ''Così fan tutte'' (
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– London), * ''Albert Herring, Phaedra'' (
Aldeburgh Festival The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the town of Aldeburgh, Suffolk and is centred on Snape Maltings Concert Hall. History of the Aldeburgh Festi ...
– UK)


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hume, Lindy 1961 births Living people Australian opera directors Female opera directors Members of the Order of Australia Helpmann Award winners People from Paddington University of Western Australia alumni