Lindy Hume

Lindy Hume
Born Paddington, Australia
Occupation Opera director, Festival Director

Lindy Hume is an Australian opera and festival director, who has worked throughout Australia and internationally.

Early life

Hume was born in Paddington and grew up in Glebe and Annandale, New South Wales. Her father taught primary school and also worked as a film censor. Her mother was a psychologist at Sydney University.[1]

Career

Currently Artistic Director of Opera Queensland,[2] she was appointed as Director of Sydney Festival in 2008,[3][4] and led it from 2010 to 2012.[1] Earlier she was Director of Perth International Arts Festival (2004-2007),[5] Artistic Director of West Australian Opera (1992-1996), OzOpera and Victorian State Opera (1996-2001).

Hume's productions for Opera Queensland included a 2014 season of Verdi's Rigoletto inspired by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.[6] 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.[7]

Recent 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".[8]

Awards

Hume received Helpmann Awards and Green Room Awards in 2002 for Best Director for the world premiere of Richard Mills’ Batavia.[9] 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).[10]

She was the recipient of an Honorary doctorate of Letters from the University of Western Australia (2007).[11]

Selected Productions – Australia/New Zealand

Carmen, Don Giovanni, Fledermaus, La Périchole, Les pêcheurs de perles (Opera Australia)

Cinderella, Rigoletto (Opera Queensland)

The Love of the Nightingale[12] (Perth International Arts Festival)

Orlando, Trouble in Tahiti, The Barber of Seville (OzOpera)[13]

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).

Selected Productions – international

La bohème (Deutsche Staatsoper - Berlin)

The Barber of Seville, Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus[14] (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

  1. 1 2 "Break an egg and on with show". Sydney Morning Herald. 7 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Anne Fliotsos; Wendy Vierow (15 October 2013). International Women Stage Directors. University of Illinois Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-252-09585-6.
  3. ↑ "Lindy Hume takes Fergus Lineham's job at Sydney Festival". The Daily Telegraph. 13 June 2008.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ "Epic Journey Out West". Sydney Morning Herald. 11 November 2003.
  6. ↑ "Rigoletto: Scandal and intrigue make it an enduring classic for Lindy Hume and Opera Queensland". ABC News. 11 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Opera to recruit ordinary Queenslanders for regional tour". Sydney Morning Herald. 14 February 2014.
  8. ↑ Cunningham, Hannah. "Iphigenie en Tauride review: A dramatic feast even the gods approve of". Sydney Morning Herald. 4 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Melbourne festival blitzes industry awards". The Age. 8 May 2002.
  10. ↑ "Full list of winners for the Helpmann Awards". Sydney Morning Herald. 20 September 2010.
  11. ↑ "Holders of Honorary Degrees". University of Western Australia.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "'Die Fledermaus' succeeds with style". Houston Chronicle. 30 Oct 2013.
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