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Cathy Freeman’s win was a historic triumph, but it wasn't the only watershed moment at the Sydney Olympics. Hear from Rhoda Roberts, who played a critical role behind the scenes of the 2000 games.

The world has lost a towering symbol of humanity, stoicism and grace with the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

Reenter the picnic game with these "perfect croissants", courtesy of Bennelong Head Pastry Chef Rhiann Mead's lockdown baking project.

Legendary pianist Winifred Atwell was the (incomplete) stage's premiere act

Glow-in-the-dark popcorn, Instaworthy tuna and other ideas to make your everyday eating more enjoyable.

A moreish at home creation by Portside Sydney's Exec Chef Elton Inglis for his wife during lockdown.

Celebrate Mooncake Festival, one of the most important celebrations in China, with this iconic rabbit-shaped mooncake recipe and handy how-to guide.

The 12-year cycle of the lunar calendar means that depending on the year you were born, you are represented by one of the 12 animals of the zodiac, and share affiliation with its character traits and fortunes. In 2021, it’s the Year of the Ox and to mark the occasion we’ve pulled together a summary of what lies ahead for you in terms of career, relationships or love.

6 architectural beauties worth the detour on your next NSW road trip

What happens to the native birds of urban Sydney when the entire city goes into hiding? We ask aviary experts how the ibises and seagulls of Circular Quay hold up when the humans disappear.

We all have an obligation to be part of the solution when it comes to climate change. We talk to an engineer about how he's helping the Opera House achieve its sustainability goals.

Made, lost, then uncovered half a century later. This is the story of controversial film 'Autopsy on a Dream'.

From sourdough starters to focaccia art, we’re taking a look at #isobread trends in an ode to the humble carb.

As spring draws near, move the slow cooker aside and make room for Bill Granger's deliciously fresh and light everyday recipes with an added twist.

Ahead of his return to the Sydney Opera House in January, we dig into the surprising life of chef superstar and occasional MasterChef guest judge Yotam Ottolenghi.

Recipes for the thinkers, the theatrical, and the purists

Four decades of Australian art and ideas in graphic design.

Has 'George Miller: In Conversation' whet your appetite for gas-guzzling pandemonium? Here's our binge-list for road warriors and wasteland wanderers, courtesy of Stan.

Michael Falzon, a star of the Australian stage, passed away on June 23 this year. Now, on the cusp of the digital debut of Falzon's passion project Swing on This, his co-stars pen a tribute to their departed friend.

Discover the sea creatures that dwell beneath the harbour in our modular artificial reef along the Sydney Opera House sea wall.

This World Oceans Day, meet the diving force behind the Opera House’s underwater revolution. Not many people can claim to have dived beneath the Sydney Opera House, but these two marine ecologists from the University of Technology Sydney sure can.

We all have an obligation to be part of the solution when it comes to climate change. We talk to an engineer about how he's helping the Opera House achieve its sustainability goals.

Powerful performances and candid conversations taking centre stage at the Sydney Opera House.

Thinking about how we eat can help fix our food system.

Fancy yourself a freshly minted iso chef extraordinaire? Take your skills to the next level with these mouth watering gourmet recipes from Australia’s top First Nations chefs.

In need of a therapeutic bake or dessert to impress? Now is a better time than ever to fill your kitchen with copious amounts of chocolate.

Leonie Bell started her career at the Sydney Opera House as a chef-apprentice for Bennelong Restaurant when she was 15 years old. Three years later she was in prime position to experience Sydney's first-ever, world-famous New Year’s Eve fireworks show. Now part of the Front of House team 45 years later, Leonie shares a kitchen secret or two what it was like working in the lead up to that faithful night in 1976.

Peter Tucker has been working at the Sydney Opera House since before it was even complete. Now a part of the Building Operations team, he's worked in an assortment of roles and teams over the years. Along the way has met the Queen, the President and Jackie Chan – just to name a few. This year Peter celebrates 50 years on the job.

From killer sea creatures to crashing UFOs, the Sydney Opera House has been threatened in the most imaginative and unexpected ways. Here are just a few of our close calls.

From an observatory meet cute to a gorgeous multicultural ceremony, we look back on the love story and harbourside wedding of Christopher and Rajini, celebrated in our Yallamundi Rooms.

On September 8 2022, Sydney Community Foundation’s Sydney Women’s Fund hosted its flagship event - Saluting Sydney Women - in the Opera House’s Yallamundi Rooms. The Opera House was an iconic and special place for this celebration.

Under the Sails shares the stories of those celebrate milestones at the Opera House.  Krishan Anand celebrated his 70th birthday in the sweeping surrounds of the Opera House’s Yallamundi Rooms, with sixty of his nearest and dearest.

AIEF students flew into Sydney from various communities across Australia to celebrate their graduation at the Opera House, with many visiting Sydney for the first time. 

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Home to 5-star performances, the Sydney Opera House is now a 6 Star Green Star rated building. 

Hold onto your hats, we're crowning the best buckets and bonnets that pay tribute to the Opera House. Here are our top five spectacular (impractical) Opera House hats.

We asked five local artists to bring your most cherished Opera House memories to life.

The Sydney Opera House has a lasting legacy of working with Australian artists to colourfully express the variety of performances under the sails.

Arriving by water taxi and married at sunset 25 years after they met, we look back on the love story and wedding of Andy and Don.

Roz and Electra met through work in 2015 and seven years later they were married under the sails as one of the first female couples to be married at the Opera House, in a bold and beautiful ceremony in the Joan Sutherland Theatre Northern Foyer (JSTNF). 

The much-loved resident of the Opera House steps has been given a voice.

Founded by sisters Eloise and Sophie Rankine, Elph Ceramics is a ceramic homewares business that combines artistic sensibility with minimalist design. Locally handcrafted and sustainably made in the Southern Highlands in New South Wales, Elph Ceramics pieces are designed for everyday use - to be cherished and kept forever.

We spoke with Sydney-based designers Camila De Gregorio and Christopher Macaluso of Eggpicnic who have been selected for Uncovered’s Prints, Photography & Art category. 

Queensland-based artist Simin Contractor of SoulSilk has been selected for Uncovered’s Clothing and Accessories category.  We spoke to Simin about her Sydney Opera House Shop collection which features three hand-painted silk scarves inspired by Australian botanicals.

Sydney-based ceramicist Milly Dent has been selected for Uncovered retail program. We spoke to Milly about her work, where she finds inspiration and her Sydney Opera House Shop collection.

With his range of porcelain ceramics, Richard Greenacre is the latest Uncovered alumni in the Homewares and Gifts category. An industrial designer by day and ceramicist by night, Richard experiments with different materials and software to see how he can bring a new take to ceramic craft. 

Amy Hammond and Lorrelle Munro are the co-founders of Yinarr Maramali, a Gomeroi women’s business based on Country in Tamworth NSW. Meaning “made by Gomeroi women’s hands”, Yinarr Maramali use natural materials collected by hand from Country to make a range of hand-woven baskets, coolamons and dilly bags.

Liz Liddle is the founder of Mwerre - Soap and Skin, a First Nations female-owned small business that manufactures artisan soaps based in Creswick, Victoria. Meaning ‘good’ or ‘beautiful’ in Arrernte, a First Nations language group in Central Australia, Mwerre (pronounced Mwah-rah) uses native ingredients to produce handmade soaps with Indigenous clay minerals and botanicals that protect and care for the skin.

Running out of ideas for what to cook? We dish our favourite Otto recipes to guide you through your quarantine meal time journeys.

With her range of original prints, Jane from popaboutdesign submitted her work to the Prints, Photography and Art category. A Sydney local who’s trained as an architect, Jane exhibits a remarkable level of detail in her prints, with each of the pools and the Opera House sails all drawn to scale and designed to complement each other. 

Peter Gilmore's lamington recipe is the cherry on the cake of the Bennelong menu and now you can make it at home.

fromBIGthings is a Sydney-based model maker studio run by Adrian Veale. Adrian is dedicated to the recreation of architecture and buildings from across Sydney and Australia in plaster as an expression of their design for all to enjoy. Every model is made by hand with a combination of digital 3D printing and eco-friendly resin/plaster casts. Hand finished details are added to each model using traditional handmade techniques.

Work is underway to make the Opera House sound as good as it looks. Meet the acousticians solving a 40 year-old problem.

Each of the 10,244 pipes will be cleaned by hand – it's a tricky job.

Legendary pianist Winifred Atwell was the (incomplete) stage's premiere act

One of the world’s great performance venues, the Joan Sutherland Theatre is being renewed for the next generation of artists and audiences.

A film made by the architect of the Opera House en route to Sydney has, until now, never been publicly seen. Lin Utzon recalls the influence and inspiration her father drew from Chinese architecture.

Sydney Opera House BUILD is a new three-part program with the aim of creating a better world through the built environment. Earlier this month, the pilot Tertiary Built Environment Creative Lab saw students from Western Sydney University tackle a future-facing design challenge by collaborating in interdisciplinary teams. Student Emma Moore writes about what she learnt about herself and the Opera House.

The Australian-Danish exchange program imagines what a future icon might look like.

The halls might be closed, but a newly built virtual stage is broadcasting shows from inside the Sydney Opera House

Sam Doust, Google Arts & Culture curator, reveals his favourite stories from behind the curtain.

Better sound, better access and more ambitious performances will be enabled by a $150 million upgrade and renovations.

What makes a concert sound good? Here's how our acousticians did it.

The Opera House’s biggest venue has been closed for two years, yet behind its shuttered doors the beat goes on. The hum of thousands of excited concert-goers has been replaced with the buzz of thousands of workers, busy future-proofing the venue for decades to come.

Find out 15 interesting facts about the Sydney Opera House that you never knew.

“It’s about saying: we haven’t gone forever, we’re coming back and we’re going to leave the lights on to show you that.”

He's the host of LEGO Masters, the only Lego Certified Professional in Australia, and he's constructed the Opera House more than any other building in the world. As we celebrate his latest work – Christmas baubles on the Forecourt – The Brickman reflects on why he loves what he does.

From audience member to performer to podcast host, Zindzi Okenyo has a unique connection with the Sydney Opera House. She shares her relationship with the building, and what it was like to see the Concert Hall emptied out and reinvented up-close for the new season of House Stories.

We cherish our memories of visiting the Sydney Opera House, whether that’s catching your favourite artist or being amazed by the stories told on stage. But what about the artists’ memories?

In April 2018, the Utzon Center presented Horisont: an evocative exhibition in celebration of Jørn Utzon AC and the poetic, humane layers of his life’s work coloured by his immersive travel studies of foreign landscapes, people and cultures.

His mastery in fusing craft traditions and ancient architecture with modernist thinking infused his designs for the Sydney Opera House.

Ever since it was a place for ceremony, gathering and celebration in Aboriginal Australia, Tubowgule has always reflected the society tucked in around Sydney Cove.

On 2 March 1959, a crowd gathered under umbrellas, in the rain, to watch the ceremony that marked the start of construction of the Sydney Opera House.

Jørn Utzon’s realisation that the form of the Sydney Opera House could be derived from the surface of a sphere marked a milestone in 20th century architecture.

As the sails took shape, Bennelong Point became a battle ground of politics, pragmatism and the quest for perfection.

Peter Hall was one of Australia’s brightest young architects at the time he took up the daunting role of design architect to complete Stage Three of Sydney’s new Opera House.

From Ella Fitzgerald to Bon Iver, Dance Rites Festival to Nelson Mandela’s address from the steps, the Opera House and the extraordinary experiences on our stages reflect our contemporary culture.

We are transforming the building for future generations while respecting and preserving the very features that make it unique.

As we open up the Opera House to more of the community, the Decade of Renewal has helped us live up to the promise of the building itself.

Francesca Pasquali creates sculptures from things we throw away.

UnWrapped is back with a line-up of shows that are unique, inspiring and eclectic. Curated by Sydney Opera House Director of Programming Fiona Winning, get the lowdown on what to expect in this series with our handy guide to the program.

Between Hangzhou and Melbourne, the Lunar Lantern artist's real work is politically charged with flairs of Magritte.

“There’s an inherent, undeniable power of our music. And owning things is a big deal for us because we were owned.”

Hannah Brontë's ‘Tellus Terra’ is an original art commission for Sydney Opera House, presented at All About Women 2020.

Andrew Thomas Huang's 'Austral Flora Ballet' is an urgent reminder of our natural world

To celebrate the opening of the Centre for Creativity, meditation teacher and academic Nadine Cameron writes on casting aside the “fear of the quality of output” and finding fulfilment in everyday acts of art and imagination.

He's the host of LEGO Masters, the only Lego Certified Professional in Australia, and he's constructed the Opera House more than any other building in the world. As we celebrate his latest work – Christmas baubles on the Forecourt – The Brickman reflects on why he loves what he does.

Emily Nicol speaks to the creators of this year's extraordinary Vivid Lighting of the Sails artwork: the Martumili Artists, musicians Electric Fields, and creative technologists Curiious.

John Coburn was at the height of his fame when the artist was pitched to architect Peter Hall to design the Sydney Opera House theatre curtains in 1969. Hall had taken over from Danish architect Jørn Utzon and was ushering the building towards completion.

Tim Ross, design enthusiast and presenter, has become fixated with the Opera House’s historic tapestries – so much so he’s hosting a podcast about them.

Michael Jagamara was born into and revelled in a time of great change and opportunities. Following the end of World War II, abstract expressionism had arrived in the Australian art world and Sidney Nolan completed his Ned Kelly series. Also in that year, in the north part of Western Australia, in an amazingly unread, event, at least 800 Aboriginal pastoral workers walked off the job and began one of the longest industrial strikes in Australian history.

For those fortunate enough to meet him, he embodied the qualities of the quintessential bush gentleman. Dressed in his jacket and distinctive Akubra hat, he exuded a dignified presence, often sharing humorous anecdotes and stories. Whether in Papunya or New York, Alice Springs or Brisbane, Sydney or Vienna, Jagamara often struck up conversations with new friends and passers-by alike, introducing himself with a warm smile and a handshake, announcing, “Hello, I'm a famous artist!”

When I went to see Kenneth Slessor, he was working as a journalist, his poetical self long since disappeared, and he told me a story. It was the story of an artist who drowned in Sydney opposite the place where the Opera House now stands.