TOM LINGWOOD designed 13 productions for the Australian Opera between 1970 and 1980, the most memorable to be the La Bohème was seen over 20 years period in virtually every opera theatre in Australia, large and small, which used set perspective to appear so much more expansive and solid than in fact was, and which at the same time had extraordordinary atmosphere.
In 1989 The International Council of The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences gave Tom an: "International Emmy Awards of outstanding Achievements in Performing Arts Programming"From 1995 Tom also was a teachter at NIDA in Sydney for a couple of years. Underneath a small collection of his costume and stage designs.