Helpmann Award for Best Direction of an Opera

The Helpmann Award for Best Direction of an Opera is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in Australia. The accolade is handed out at the annual Helpmann Awards, which celebrates achievements in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.^[1]

Helpmann Award Best Direction of an Opera
Country	Australia
Presented by	Live Performance Australia (LPA)
First award	2001
Website	Official website

The award is given to the "director who has made a material contribution to the Australian aspect of the production."^[2] The nominees are determined by the Opera and Classical Music branch of the Helpmann Awards Nominating Panel; winners are chosen by all branches of the Nominating Panel, and other eligible voters.^[3]

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.

• Source:^[4][5]

Year	Director	Production
2001 (1st)	Neil Armfield	The Eighth Wonder
2001 (1st)	Lindy Hume	Orlando
2001 (1st)	Barrie Kosky	Wozzeck
2001 (1st)	Moffatt Oxenbould	Simon Boccanegra
2002 (2nd)	Lindy Hume	Batavia
2002 (2nd)	Stephen Medcalf	Going Into Shadows
2002 (2nd)	Elke Neidhardt	Parsifal
2002 (2nd)	Simon Phillips	L'elisir d'amore
2003 (3rd)	Neil Armfield	The Marriage of Figaro
2003 (3rd)	Elke Neidhardt	Il Trovatore
2003 (3rd)	Patrick Nolan	Love in the Age of Therapy
2003 (3rd)	Francesca Zambello	Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
2004 (4th)	Joe Mantello, Brad Dalton[A]	Dead Man Walking
2004 (4th)	Nigel Jamieson	Brundibár
2004 (4th)	Harry Kupfer	Otello
2004 (4th)	Simon Phillips	Lulu
2005 (5th)	Elke Neidhardt	Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring Cycle)
2005 (5th)	Stuart Maunder	Manon
2005 (5th)	Patrick Nolan	Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
2005 (5th)	Francesca Zambello	The Love for Three Oranges
2006 (6th)	John Cox	The Rake's Progress
2006 (6th)	Simon Phillips	La Bohème
2006 (6th)	Rachel McDonald	La voix humaine
2006 (6th)	David Freeman	Nabucco
2007 (7th)	Douglas Horton	The Hive
2007 (7th)	Olivia Fuchs	Rusalka
2007 (7th)	Lindy Hume	The Love of the Nightingale
2007 (7th)	Leigh Warren	Satyagraha
2008 (8th)	John Cox	Arabella
2008 (8th)	Bruce Beresford	A Streetcar Named Desire
2008 (8th)	Adam Cook	Little Women
2008 (8th)	Nigel Jamieson	Dead Man Walking
2009 (9th)	Neil Armfield	Billy Budd
2009 (9th)	Kate Cherry	L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea)
2009 (9th)	Chris Kohn	The Children's Bach
2009 (9th)	Graeme Murphy	Aida
2010 (10th)	Neil Armfield	Peter Grimes
2010 (10th)	Neil Armfield	Bliss
2010 (10th)	Chris Drummond	The Flying Dutchman
2010 (10th)	Alex Olle and Valentina Carrasco	Le Grand Macabre
2011 (11th)	Nigel Jamieson	La Fanciulla del West
2011 (11th)	Christopher Alden	Partenope
2011 (11th)	Michael Kantor	Threepenny Opera
2011 (11th)	Leigh Warren	Maria De Buenos Aires
2012 (12th)	Leonard Foglia	Moby-Dick
2012 (12th)	Bruce Beresford	Of Mice and Men
2012 (12th)	Matthew Lutton	Elektra
2012 (12th)	Francesca Zambello	La Traviata
2013 (13th)	Àlex Ollé	Un ballo in maschera
2013 (13th)	Rodula Gaitanou	L'isola disabitata
2013 (13th)	Gale Edwards	Salome
2013 (13th)	Ludger Engels	Semele Walk
2014 (14th)	Neil Armfield[6]	Melbourne Ring Cycle
2014 (14th)	Chas Rader-Shieber	Orlando
2014 (14th)	Simon Phillips	The Turk in Italy
2014 (14th)	Roger Hodgman	Nixon in China
2015 (15th)	Paul Curran[7]	Faramondo
2015 (15th)	David McVicar	Don Giovanni
2015 (15th)	David McVicar	Faust
2015 (15th)	Leigh Warren	The Philip Glass Trilogy
2016 (16th)	David McVicar[8]	The Marriage of Figaro
2016 (16th)	Michael Gow	Voyages to the Moon
2016 (16th)	Cameron Menzies	The Grumpiest Boy in the World
2016 (16th)	Laurence Dale	Agrippina
2017 (17th)	Barrie Kosky	Saul
2017 (17th)	David McVicar	Cosi fan tutte
2017 (17th)	Damiano Michieletto	Cavalleria Rusticana & I Pagliacci
2017 (17th)	Gale Edwards	Cloudstreet
2018 (18th)	Neil Armfield[9]	Hamlet
2018 (18th)	Barrie Kosky	The Nose
2018 (18th)	Stuart Maunder	The Cunning Little Vixen
2018 (18th)	Matthew Lutton	Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets
2019 (19th)	Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade[10]	The Magic Flute
2019 (19th)	William Kentridge	Wozzeck
2019 (19th)	Lindy Hume	Don Giovanni
2019 (19th)	Sarah Giles	Lorelei

Notes

A^ : The win for Dead Man Walking was for Joe Mantello, credited for "production", and Brad Dalton who oversaw the rehearsal and direction of the opera in Australia.^[11]

See also

• Helpmann Awards