Lindy Hume AM PhD is one of Australia’s leading Opera, Theatre and Festival Directors, internationally recognised for her fresh interpretations of a wide variety of repertoire.
Lindy Hume has served as Festival Director for Perth Festival 2004-2007, Sydney Festival 2010-2012, and more recently, Ten Days on the Island 2019-2023. Equally at home in opera, Lindy is the former Artistic Director of West Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera, OzOpera, and Opera Queensland. In 2021 she was awarded the Order of Australia (AM) for significant service to the performing arts.
Lindy Hume was Guest Creative Director for Opera Australia’s Sydney Summer Season 2024. Directing credits include: Idomeneo for San Francisco Opera; Idomeneo, Carmen, Fledermaus and Batavia (World Premiere) for Opera Australia; The Marriage Of Figaro and Cosi Fan Tutte for New Zealand Opera; Cinderella for Leipzig Opera and Royal Opera Stockholm; Madama Butterfly for Welsh National Opera; A Winter’s Journey for Musica Viva; Rigoletto for Seattle Opera and Opera Philadelphia; The Barber of Seville for Houston Grand Opera, Opera Queensland, New Zealand Opera, Seattle Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera. She is currently Creative Director of Crimson Rosella Creative Adventures and Hot House Theatre.