Work experience

The Opera House is committed to providing artistic, cultural, educational and employment opportunities that build capacity and understanding. The Opera House believes creating these opportunities is essential to nurture the next generation of artists, audiences and visitors.

The Opera House employs over 900 people working across a range of vocations to maintain its status as a world-class performing arts venue, a world heritage listed site and a tourism and entertainment provider. 

As the Sydney Opera House is primarily a performance venue, the work that happens here focuses on getting the show on stage rather than producing the show. If you are interested in creating, making and performing in shows, you may wish to explore work experience opportunities with our Resident Companies.

We are working on a new careers program that will continue to focus on meaningful industry experience and career pathways for students, graduates and trainees. We will provide further information on our refreshed program when this is developed.

Please note we do not offer ad hoc work experience placements for individual students, and we do not offer work experience outside of our program dates.