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Sydney Opera House announces $21 summer tickets

The Sydney Opera House today announced $21 summer tickets for its line-up of summer events, performances and experiences, enabled by a NSW Government initiative to increase access to Sydney’s cultural offering over the summer months. The offer commences today and runs through to the end of March, with tickets released on the Opera House website at midday each day for selected shows the following day.

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Beloved Aussie kids favourite Bluey makes Sydney Opera House debut

“Wackadoo!” – the Sydney Opera House has announced that Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show will bounce onto the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage for the first time from 19 – 23 May 2021.

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Sunnyboys - Alone With You (for one night only) in the Joan Sutherland Theatre

Few Australian bands inspire as much love as Sydney post-punk survivors Sunnyboys. Now the original lineup of frontman Jeremy Oxley, bassist Peter Oxley, guitarist Richard Burgman, and drummer Bil Bilson will return to the Sydney Opera House on Sunday 13 December.

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Applications open for Opera House Uncovered program

The Sydney Opera House is searching for three new creatives to take part in the second year of its successful Uncovered program, which provides an opportunity for local makers, designers and artists to have their Australian-inspired products sold in one of the world’s most iconic retail environments.

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Australians invited to share their favourite Sydney Opera House memories

To mark its reopening, the Opera House is inviting people to share their favourite moments at the iconic venue, with a selection to be projected on to the sails in early 2021, as part of a new campaign ‘Where Memories Are Made’, announced today.

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Free digital creative learning connects regional and remote students to Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House has unveiled its 2021 Digital Creative Learning program featuring exclusive talks with award-winning artists and authors Andy Griffiths and Maxine Beneba Clarke as well as a rich program of workshops and virtual tours to take place in the first half of next year.

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Sydney Opera House launches new range of tour experiences

Local and international audiences will be able to experience Sydney Opera House like never before with the launch of a new range of tour experiences, announced today.

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Ebony Bott announced as new Head of Contemporary Performance

Leading arts curator and producer Ebony Bott has been appointed as Sydney Opera House's new Head of Contemporary Performance, overseeing the development of innovative and entertaining new productions by today’s great artists from Australia and the world.

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Cosmo's Midnight announce two all-ages shows for their Opera House debut

Sydney Opera House will welcome the shimmering sound of summer with two all-ages performances by Sydney electropop duo Cosmo’s Midnight. The genre-pushing twin producers will celebrate their acclaimed new album Yesteryear on 10 December with their only 2020 Sydney show for the band’s Opera House debut.

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A summer of escape, entertainment and connection at the House

Legendary rock musical RENT – with its galvanising story of love and connection – kicks off a vibrant Sydney Opera House summer program full of magic, illusion, music theatre and circus.

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An unmissable summer of fun for the young and young at heart

Much-loved Australian children’s singer and entertainer Justine Clarke leads a summer of fun with sing-along favourites, classic stories and best-selling, award-winning productions for the young, and young at heart, at the Sydney Opera House.

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Sydney Opera House announces new season of UnWrapped celebrating independent voices and contemporary Australian work

The Sydney Opera House has announced the latest offering of live music and physical theatre as part of its UnWrapped season of diverse, rarely seen and critically acclaimed work curated by Sydney Opera House Director of Programming, Fiona Winning.

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Dance Rites: a celebration of First Nations culture - online

The Sydney Opera House will present its sixth annual Dance Rites festival online next month, bringing together 28 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance groups in a celebratory digital event with more than 350 performers spanning generations, nations and clan groups.

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Sydney Opera House lifts the curtain on new program of live events

The Sydney Opera House today announced an exciting next step in welcoming audiences and visitors back to the site with a program of unmissable live events set to start in two weeks.

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Sydney Opera House launches New Work Now

The Sydney Opera House has today launched New Work Now, an initiative created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to provide meaningful support for local Australian artists and arts workers through commissioning, developing and presenting new works.

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New podcast series unravels the hidden stories of the Opera House tapestry collection, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Tim Ross

The Sydney Opera House has launched a new podcast series House Stories: The Tapestries that examines the stories and significance of four magnificent tapestries designed specifically for the Opera House.

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Sydney Opera House reopens harbourside restaurants

The Sydney Opera House announced that its popular harbourside dining venues Opera Bar and Opera Kitchen will be open for business from Thursday 10 September.

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Ziggy Ramo to live-stream his full-length album in an exclusively commissioned performance for the Opera House's digital season

In an exclusively commissioned performance featuring a 10-piece band and specially-made visuals, Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna will present his debut album Black Thoughts. The performance will be presented as part of the Sydney Opera House's From Our House to Yours digital season as a hip-hop reckoning through love, compassion, dispossession and systemic racism envisioned for listeners from all walks of life.

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The Sydney Opera House ‘talks’ in a brand new podcast for kids

The Sydney Opera House has today released a brand new season of Arty Farty, a podcast made especially for kids. House Call is the third season of Arty Farty and includes 15 episodes jam-packed full of interesting stories from the people who make magic happen behind-the-scenes at the Sydney Opera House.

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An evening of music theatre in support of the Actor's Benevolent Fund

The Sydney Opera House will host a vibrant showcase of live performance, interviews and musical footage to fundraise for the Actors Benevolent Fund. Let’s Go On With The Show will be hosted by Simon Burke AO and delivered in partnership with Live Performance Australia, the Helpmann Awards, the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance and Sydney Opera House Presents.

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Dance Rites 2020 registrations are now open

Registrations for the sixth annual Dance Rites – Sydney Opera House’s esteemed national First Nations dance competition – are now open. The hallmark First Nations event helps to revitalise Indigenous leadership, safeguard vanishing cultural practices, and showcase the richness and diversity of First Nations culture.

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Men in sand pit performing indigenous dance in the homeground of Sydney opera house.

The Wiggles world premiere performance on the Opera House digital stage

Global superstars The Wiggles will make their Sydney Opera House digital stage debut on Sunday 14 June 2020 in an exclusive performance available to audiences around the world as part of the Opera House’s weekly digital program From Our House to Yours.

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Sydney Opera House releases its first online guided tour

The Sydney Opera House is bringing its popular backstage tour to homes around the world with today’s release of its first ever online guided tour, available to experience for free here.

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Sydney Opera House presents new program of live performances streamed online from the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage

From this week, the Sydney Opera House will introduce new and live-streamed performances to its successful digital program From Our House to Yours, streamed online from the Joan Sutherland Theatre stage to audiences around the world.

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