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What Is the City but the People? - Livestream (2023)

  • Livestream

Available worldwide from 1 Oct 2023 until 1 Oct 2028Backed by live music and photographs created by local artists, ‘What Is the City but the People?’ invites Sydneysiders to parade down a large scale catwalk on the Forecourt of Sydney Opera House. (Premiere)

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Opera Australia - Lucia di Lammermoor (1986)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 30 Sep to 30 Oct 2023Dame Joan Sutherland's performance of Lucia in London in 1959 made her an almost immediate superstar. She returned to her signature role in 1986 in a season in the Concert Hall, directed by John Copley. (Stream Premiere)

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The National - Live at Sydney Opera House (2018)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 29 Sep to 29 Oct 2023Whilst the 2018 Forecourt performances from the indie rock luminaries were not recorded for broadcast, this new concert film is taken from a range of camera sources, offering a unique and vital record of a much-loved performance. (Premiere)

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Australian Chamber Orchestra - Goldberg Variations (2018)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 28 Sep to 29 Oct 2023Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra bring Bach’s virtuosic masterpiece to life in the 2018 Australian premiere of Canadian conductor Bernard Labadie’s dazzling, colourful arrangement for strings, filmed in the Concert Hall. (Stream Premiere)

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DeRay Mckesson - The Case For Hope (2019)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 27 Sep 2023A leader in the Black Lives Matter movement, DeRay Mckesson places the idea of shared hope for a better future at the core of his activism, in this vital conversation with Faustina Agolley, filmed at Antidote 2019.

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra (2023)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 8 Sep until 11 Sep 2023In 1966, the London Symphony Orchestra was the first visiting orchestra to rehearse in the as yet unfinished Sydney Opera House. In 2023, they returned on their final tour with outgoing music director Sir Simon Rattle. (Premiere)

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An orchestra on stage, members of the orchestra are standing, the conductor is waving their right arm, smiling.

Khruangbin - Live at Sydney Opera House (2022)

  • Contemporary Music
  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 26 Sep 2023 until 27 Nov 2026Inspired by ’60s Thai funk, Tarantino soundtracks and surf-rock cool, the Texan three-piece Khruangbin summoned forth a hypnotic sound quite unlike anything else for their thrilling Sydney Opera House debut in 2022.

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A Man and An Organ (1981)

  • On-demand

Available Australia and New Zealand only, from 25 Sep 2023 A 1981 insight into Ronald Sharp, the builder of the Grand Organ in the Concert Hall, who worked painstakingly for ten years to build the instrument. With 10,244 pipes, it is the largest mechanical tracker-action pipe organ in the world. (Stream Premiere)

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Green Room Music - Three Marys (2023)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 24 Sep 2023 to 24 Sep 2028An international collaboration by award-winning artists composer Andrée Greenwell and librettist Christine Evans, this fully staged chamber opera melds music, myth and imagination in an intergenerational story of women who must flee for their lives. (Premiere)

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The Australian Ballet - La Sylphide (2013)

  • On-demand

Available worldwide from 7 Sep until 7 Oct 2023The Australian Ballet presents a production by Erik Bruhn after August Bournonville’s nineteenth-century original, telling the tale of the Scottish dreamer James, who is fascinated by a woodland sprite and spurns his fiancée to follow her.

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Two groups of six ballerinas on stage, in arabesque, wearing long white tutus and flower crowns.
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