Lindy Hume AM (born 25 August 1961)[1] is an Australian opera and festival director, who has worked throughout Australia and internationally.
Lindy Hume | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 August 1961 Paddington, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation | Opera director • festival director |
Early life
editHume 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
editHume 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
editHume 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
editAustralia/New Zealand
edit- Carmen, Don Giovanni, Fledermaus, La Périchole, Les pêcheurs de perles (Opera Australia)
- Cinderella, Rigoletto (Opera Queensland)
- The Love of the Nightingale[14] (Perth International Arts Festival)
- Orlando, Trouble in Tahiti, The Barber of Seville (OzOpera)[15]
- Alcina, Orpheus in the Underworld (West Australian Opera)
- Carmina Burana (State Opera of South Australia/The Australian Ballet)
- Idomeneo, Iphigénie en Tauride (Pinchgut Opera)
- Rigoletto, Lucia di Lammermoor (New Zealand Opera).
International
edit- La bohème (Deutsche Staatsoper – Berlin)
- The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus[16] (Houston Grand Opera)
- Tolomeo (Muziektheater Transparant – Belgium)
- Don Pasquale (Oper Leipzig)
- Radamisto (Handel Festspiele and Opernhaus Halle)
- A Streetcar Named Desire, Norma (Opera Theatre St Gallen – Switzerland)
- Così fan tutte (Guildhall School of Music and Drama – London),
- Albert Herring, Phaedra (Aldeburgh Festival – UK)
References
edit- ^ Who's Who in Australia. ConnectWeb. 2021.
- ^ a b "Break an egg and on with show". The Sydney Morning Herald. 7 January 2012.
- ^ "Epic Journey Out West". The Sydney Morning Herald. 11 November 2003.
- ^ "Lindy Hume takes Fergus Lineham's job at Sydney Festival". The Daily Telegraph. 13 June 2008.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Anne Fliotsos; Wendy Vierow (15 October 2013). International Women Stage Directors. University of Illinois Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-252-09585-6.
- ^ "Rigoletto: Scandal and intrigue make it an enduring classic for Lindy Hume and Opera Queensland". ABC News. 11 April 2014.
- ^ "Opera to recruit ordinary Queenslanders for regional tour". The Sydney Morning Herald. 14 February 2014.
- ^ Cunningham, Hannah. "Iphigenie en Tauride review: A dramatic feast even the gods approve of". The Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 2014.
- ^ "Melbourne festival blitzes industry awards". The Age. 8 May 2002.
- ^ "Full list of winners for the Helpmann Awards". The Sydney Morning Herald. 20 September 2010.
- ^ "Holders of Honorary Degrees". University of Western Australia.
- ^ "Australia Day 2021 Honours List" (PDF). Governor General of Australia. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "'Die Fledermaus' succeeds with style". Houston Chronicle. 30 October 2013.