No other building on earth looks like the Sydney Opera House. Popularly known as the ‘Opera House’, this building breaks ranks on many different levels. The Sydney Opera House is the Sydney’s most popular tourist attraction, as well as one of the world’s busiest performing art centres. – Famous American architect Louis Kahn on seeing the Sydney Opera House for the first time On 28 June 2007, the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.The sun did not know how beautiful its light was until it was reflected off this building. The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust, an agency of the New South Wales State Government. As one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, more than eight million people visit the site annually, and approximately 350,000 visitors take a guided tour of the building each year.
Performances are presented by numerous performing artists, including four resident companies: Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Though its name suggests a single venue, the building comprises multiple performance venues which together are among the busiest performing arts centres – hosting well over 1,500 performances annually, attended by more than 1.2 million people. The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Gardens, and close by the Sydney Harbour Bridge. The government’s decision to build Utzon’s design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect’s ultimate resignation.
The government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction. It is one of the 20th century’s most famous and distinctive buildings.ĭesigned by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the building was formally opened on 20 October 1973 after a gestation beginning with Utzon’s 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition.
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, Australia.
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