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A major event on the Sydney calendar for six years now, the Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour, in partnership with Destination NSW, will stage Puccini’s La Bohème, from March 23-April 22, 2018).
The white sails of the Sydney Opera House in Australia seemed like “an obvious canvas for an important message”, recalled David Burgess, even if scaling the building with a tin of red paint ...
Google has launched a new interactive feature that brings users inside the Sydney Opera House, one of the world’s most iconic works of architecture. The online exhibit, launched this week by the ...
Not only do we get a bird’s-eye view of the city, the harbour and the 14 shells of the Sydney Opera House, we also get a close-up view of the tiles on top, and the tools – some of them drawing ...
The Sydney Opera House Lottery, which ran from 1957 until 1986, raised the $102 million it cost to build; architect Jørn Utzon even drew the winner of lottery number three in April 1958.
The Sydney Opera House hosts around 1,800 shows a year and was always meant to be a living, breathing performance space and not just an architectural monument. It’s the home of Opera Australia ...
When George Burns first saw the daringly innovative Sydney Opera House, ”sailing” in Bennelong Point, he said: ”I love it; wrap it up. I want to take it home.” Though it`s d… ...
Aerial view of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’s new SANAA-designed building. ... The most important new building in Sydney since the Opera House offers lessons for art museums everywhere.
The Danish architect who designed the famous Sydney Opera House but has never seen it, was named on Sunday as the 2003 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the top award in the industry.
The billowing Sydney Opera House was a gamble when it started. Literally. Costs were estimated at $7 million, but the building’s final price tag came to $102 million. And the construction ...
The Sydney Opera House just ranked among the world's top 10 most recognisable landmarks. Sydney's famous harbour-side venue has just ranked as the 6th-most well-known landmark in the world.