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Lindy Hume, artistic director of Opera Queensland, is one of Australia's leading directors, internationally recognized for her interpretations of a wide-ranging repertoire and for her artistic direction of numerous Australian cultural institutions, such as the Sydney Festival (2010 to 2012) and the Perth International Arts Festival (2004 to 2007). Lindy Hume was the first artistic Director of West Australian Opera (1992 to 1996) and Director of the Victoria State Opera and OzOpera (1996 to 2001).
As a Director, she has implemented more than 50 major productions in Australia, including "Carmen", "Don Giovanni", "die Fledermaus", "La Périchole" and "Les pêcheurs de perles" (Opera Australia), "Orlando", "Trouble in Tahiti" and "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (OzOpera), "Alcina" and "Orpheus in the underworld" (West Australian Opera), Carmina Burana (State Opera of South Australia/The Australian Ballet) and "Idomeneo" (Pinchgut Opera) and "Lucia di Lammermoor" (NBR New Zealand Opera).
Her European productions include "La bohème" (Staatsoper Unter den Linden), " Tolomeo "(Musietheater Transparant in Belgium)," Radamisto "(Handel festival and Halle Opera House)," A Streetcar Named Desire "and" Norma "(Opera House St. Gallen)," Così fan tutte "(Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London) and" Albert Herring "and" Phaedra " (Aldeburgh Festival). She made her American debut in 2004 with " Il barbiere di Siviglia "at the Houston Grand Opera, where she returned in 2009 for" Rigoletto". She will return to the Staatsoper at the Schiller Theater in 2012 for " La bohème "and in 2013 to the Houston Grand Opera for"Die Fledermaus". In Australia, she directed a new English version of "Cinderella" for Opera Queensland in 2013 and will return to Pinchgut Oper, Sydney in 2014.
Lindy Hume is considered a master of modern Australian works that transcend genre boundaries. As artistic Director of OzOpera, she gave orders for a MusicDramaTV project, for award-winning television productions of operas with ABC TV, and for major Australian pieces such as Paul's Grabowskys "Love in the Age of Therapy" and Richard Mills "Batavia" (with Opera Australia and the Melbourne Centenary of Federation Festival). Her production of "Batavia" in 2001 won the Helpmann Award and the Green Room Award for Best Director and Best Production. In 2007 she initiated and staged the world premiere of Richard Mills and Timberlake Wertenbaker's opera "the Love of the Nightingale", one of several new works for the Perth International Arts Festival within the award-winning series Wesfarmers Arts Commission.
New Australian works, a focus on contemporary, the development of a characteristic regional identity, were the strengths of her tenure as director of the Perth International Arts Festival - which then achieved the best sales figures in the festival's 55-year history - as well as her most recent position as festival director of the Sydney Festival, Australia's largest and most popular annual art
The Sydney Festival in 2010, won under her leadership, five Helpmann Awards out of nine nominations, including the award as the Best Australian work for "Smoke & Mirrors" (Sydney Festival, in cooperation with Spiegeltent International), Best event (for the opening of the Festival) and Best classical or orchestral concert ("Oedipus Rex" /"Symphony of Psalms"). In addition to a focus on Australian Innovation and international program design, her Sydney Festivals have also been honored for her cultural diversity and openness, programs for the Asian Pacific Region and Sydney. In 2012, the expansion of the festival program in Parramatta and "Black Capital", a major celebration of the Redfern, were important milestones for the Festival.
Lindy Hume received the Australia Council Theatre Board Fellowship and graduated in Arts Administration from the University of South Australia. In 2007, she was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the University of Western Australia in recognition of her contribution to the cultural life of this Region.
She is currently chairman of the Boards of South East Arts and Regional Arts NSW and was a member of the Australia Council's Major Performing Arts Board from 2008 to 2011.