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Lyndon Terracini
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Lyndon William Terracini, AM (born 1950 in Sydney), is an Australian operatic baritone and since 2009 Artistic Director of Opera Australia.
Terracini's professional operatic debut was in 1976 as Sid in The Australian Opera's production of Albert Herring at the Sydney Opera House.
In 1993, he was the founding artistic director of the Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) in Lismore, New South Wales. Terracini was artistic director of the Queensland Music Festival in 2000 and the Brisbane Festival from 2006 until 2009.
In the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours List, Terracini was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM), "for significant service to the performing arts as an opera performer, director and administrator."
The actress Catherine Terracini is his daughter. In January 2014, the 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.