Lyndon Terracini is the Artistic Director of Opera Australia, but has also enjoyed a highly successful international opera career as well as a successful career as an actor, director and writer.
Lyndon Terracini was appointed Artistic Director and CEO of the Queensland Music Festival in July 2000 and directed the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Festivals. He was appointed Artistic Director/CEO of Brisbane Festival in 2005 and Artistic Director/CEO of Major Brisbane Festivals in November 2007.
He made his debut as a singer in 1976 as Sid in Albert Herring with The Australian Opera at the Sydney Opera House.
Notable performances include the title role in the world premiere of ROSA – A Horse Drama (Louis Andriessen and Peter Greenaway) (1994,1998) for the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam, the title role in Stephen Climax (Hans Zender) for the Frankfurt Opera, Elliot Carter’s Syringa at the Tonnehalle in Zurich, a Charles Ives Recital with Ensemble Modern at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, 8 Songs for a Mad King at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, the Podewil Theatre in Berlin, at the Barossa Music Festival, the Brisbane Biennial and the Huntington Festival and Sydney Festival, the role of Byron in Mer de Glace (Meale/Malouf) for The Australian Opera, Gregor in Metamorphosis (Brian Howard), Der Alte in Die Gespenstersonate (Reimann) in the Stadttheaters of Bern, Luzern and Zurich, the title role in the Australian premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd for the State Opera of South Australia, El Cimarron at the Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, Barossa and Darwin (Guitar) Festivals, Sancio Panza in the world premiere of the Henze/Paisiello opera Don Quischotte at the Montepulciano Festival in Italy, and The Voluptuous Tango (Dominic Muldowney) in Frankfurt which he recorded for the Hessische Rundfunk, as well as many others over a 30 year singing career.
In June 1999, Lyndon Terracini was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Music Theatre by Central Queensland University. In February 2000, he was awarded a Fellowship by the Music Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 2001, he was awarded an Honorary D. Univ. from Southern Cross University and in July 2005 he was awarded the Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Cultural leadership Award by Australian Business Arts Foundation (AbaF). In 2005 Lyndon Terracini was also appointed Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland and in 2007 he was awarded a D.Univ. from Queensland University of Technology (QUT).
In 2006, Lyndon wrote the widely acclaimed platform paper, A Regional State of Mind, which was published by Currency House. He was also a member of the International Jury for the Venice Biennale for Music.