Lindy Hume

Last updated

Lindy Hume

AM
Born (1961-08-25) 25 August 1961 (age 59)
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.

Contents

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

Related Research Articles

Opera Australia Principal opera company in Australia

Opera Australia is the principal opera company in Australia. Based in Sydney, its performance season at the Sydney Opera House accompanied by the Opera Australia Orchestra runs for approximately eight months of the year, with the remainder of its time spent in the Arts Centre Melbourne, where it is accompanied by Orchestra Victoria. In 2004, the company gave 226 performances in its subscription seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, attended by more than 294,000 people.

Canadian Opera Company

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) is an opera company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is the largest opera company in Canada and one of the largest producers of opera in North America. The COC performs in its own opera house, the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. For forty years until April 2006, the COC had performed at the O'Keefe Centre.

Jason Barry-Smith

Jason Barry-Smith is an Australian operatic baritone, vocal coach, composer, and arranger. He works with organisations such as Opera Queensland, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Seven Network, and the Queensland Youth Choir.

Pinchgut Opera

Pinchgut Opera is a chamber opera company in Sydney, Australia, presenting opera from the 17th and 18th centuries performed on period instruments. Founded in 2002, Pinchgut stages two operas each year in Sydney's City Recital Hall. It also performs concerts in both Sydney and Melbourne.

David Hobson (tenor) Australian opera tenor and composer (born 1960)

David Hobson is an Australian opera tenor and composer.

Kate Miller-Heidke Australian singer

Kate Melinda Miller-Heidke is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. Although classically trained, she has generally followed a career in alternative pop music. She signed to Sony Australia, Epic in the US and RCA in the UK, but since 2014 has been an independent artist. Four of her solo studio albums have peaked in the top 10 of the ARIA Albums Chart, Curiouser, Nightflight, O Vertigo! and Child in Reverse. Her most popular single, "The Last Day on Earth", reached No. 3 on the ARIA Singles Chart after being used in promos for TV soap, Neighbours, earlier in that year. At the ARIA Music Awards Miller-Heidke has been nominated 17 times.

The Love of the Nightingale is an opera in two acts by Richard Mills. The libretto by Timberlake Wertenbaker is based on her play of the same name. It is an adaptation of the ancient Greek legend of the rape of Philomela by her brother-in-law Tereus, and the gruesome revenge undertaken by Philomela and her sister Procne.

Jacqueline Lisa Dark is an Australian operatic mezzo-soprano. She was born in Ballarat and attended the University of Ballarat from 1986 to 1988, receiving a Bachelor of Science (Physics) and a Graduate Diploma of Education in 1989.

Melbourne Opera

Melbourne Opera was founded in 2002 as a charitable not-for-profit company dedicated to producing opera and associated art forms in Melbourne, Victoria. With philanthropic assistance it has also toured to outer-suburban and regional Victorian theatres, as well as to Canberra and Hobart interstate. Despite receiving no government funding since its foundation, the company mounts between three to five main stage productions each year. Its principal rehearsal and performance home is the Athenaeum Theatre.

Taryn Fiebig Australian opera soprano

Taryn Fiebig was an Australian soprano, a principal soprano of Opera Australia who also performed internationally. She appeared in many Mozart roles such as Susanna and Zerlina. The versatile singer also performed in Baroque opera, Italian repertoire, contemporary opera, operetta and musical theatre.

Dino Borgioli was an Italian lyric tenor. Praised by critics for his musicianship, he was particularly associated with roles in operas composed by Mozart, Rossini, and Donizetti.

Nashville Opera Association

The Nashville Opera Association is a professional opera company in Nashville, Tennessee and is a member of OPERA America. The company currently offers four fully staged opera productions and an educational outreach program during an annual season which runs from October through April. Performances are offered at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in Downtown Nashville and the Noah Liff Opera Center in the Sylvan Heights section of West Nashville. Designed by architect Earl Swensson, the 26,000-square-foot (2,400 m2) Noah Liff Opera Center houses the company's executive offices, conference facilities, and a rehearsal studio.

Antoinette Halloran Australian operatic soprano

Antoinette Halloran is an Australian operatic soprano.

Barrie Kosky is an Australian theatre and opera director.

Emma Matthews is an English-born Australian lyric coloratura soprano, noted for operatic roles, but also popular on the concert stage. A Principal Artist with Opera Australia, Matthews has received more Helpmann Awards than any other individual artist, nine Green Room Awards, the Mo Award and the Remy Martin Australian Opera Award.

Asheville Lyric Opera (ALO) is a professional, non-profit opera company located in Asheville, North Carolina. Its repertoire encompasses styles ranging from the comedies of Mozart and Rossini to the classic Verdi and Puccini dramas as well as classic musical theatre works. Founder David Craig Starkey served as General and Artistic Director until 2016. The 500-seat Diana Wortham Theatre, built in 1991, has been the company's home since 2001. ALO is a member of Opera America. Dean Anthony was announced as the company's new Artistic and Producing Direction beginning with the 2019/2020 Season.

Grant Doyle is an Australian/British operatic baritone.

Peter Coleman-Wright

Peter Coleman-Wright is an Australian baritone from Geelong. He began his career at Glyndebourne Festival Opera, where he sang Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, winning the Touring Prize. Subsequently, he sang Sid in Albert Herring and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Pizzaro in Fidelio.

The 14th Annual Helpmann Awards for Australian live performance were held on 18 August 2014 at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney.

Kanen Breen is an Australian operatic tenor.

References

  1. ↑ Who's Who in Australia. ConnectWeb. 2021.
  2. 1 2 "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.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.