Lindy Hume, director

Verdi's Rigoletto

Previous Engagements at HGO:

• Rossini's The Barber of Seville (2004)
  

Recent Engagements:

• Puccini's La boheme at Berlin State Opera
• Handel's Radamisto for the Handel Festival at the Halle Opera House
• Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire and Bellini's Norma at St. Gallen Opera
• Britten's Albert Herring and Phaedra for the Aldeburgh Festival
  

Did you know?

• Ms. Hume is one of Australia’s leading directors and artistic directors
• She currently serves as artistic director of the Sydney Festival
• In 1992 Lindy Hume became the first artistic director of West Australian Opera and in 1996 she was appointed artistic director of the Victoria State Opera and subsequently OzOpera, the Melbourne-based touring and experimental arm of Opera Australia. Under Hume’s direction OzOpera commissioned and developed several important new Australian operas including Paul Grabowsky’s Love in the Age of Therapy and Richard Mills’ Batavia.
• In 2007 the University of Western Australia awarded Lindy Hume the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters in recognition of her contribution to the cultural life of Western Australia.