Lyndon Terracini

Lyndon William Terracini AM OSI (born 1950), is an Australian operatic baritone and from 2009 to October 2022 artistic director of Opera Australia.

He grew up in a devout Salvationist family and played multiple instruments in the Salvation Army band, including cornet, flugelhorn, trombone, euphonium and timpani.

[4] The same year, he sang in the Australian premier of Hans Werner Henze's El Cimarrón, conducted by the composer at the Adelaide Festival.

He initially concentrated on "reliable crowd-pleasers such as La bohème and The Magic Flute" to rebuild the organisation's finances after the 2007–2008 financial crisis.

[3] In January 2014, Swiss soprano Noëmi Nadelmann announced that she and Terracini had resumed a relationship that was interrupted 23 years before and that she would move to Australia.