Mr. Hoomes is the CEO & Artistic Director of Nashville Opera. Mr. Hoomes has been the Artistic Director of Nashville Opera since 1995. An Emmy nominated stage director, he has directed over 200 productions of opera and music theatre in the US, South America, and Canada, including Tosca, Andrea Chenier, La Bohème, Carmen, Der Rosenkavalier, Madama Butterfly, La Fanciulla Del West, Salome, Don Giovanni, Otello, Aida and Turandot.

Mr. Hoomes staged the world premieres of Robert Aldridge's Elmer Gantry (recorded on Naxos Records and winner of two Grammys; also named the #1 opera CD release by Opera News). The New York Times declared his Nashville Opera world premiere of Elmer Gantry "An Operatic Miracle ... in Nashville." An Opera News feature article acknowledged, "Hoomes has proved himself one of the most interesting stage directors in the regional market today with a seemingly limitless knowledge of repertoire." 

Nashville Opera's world premiere production of Three Way was remounted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June 2017. Hoomes also directed Daniel Catan's opera Florencia en el Amazonas for Nashville Opera, and later remounted his original production for the New York City Opera in the Rose Theatre at Lincoln Center.