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Fever Ray

Concert Hall

5 & 6 Jun 2024

  • Contemporary Music

Making their long-awaited Australian debut, visionary Swedish iconoclast – and co-founder of The Knife – Fever Ray brings their electrifying, radically romantic synth pop to Vivid LIVE.

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Snoh Aalegra

Concert Hall

2 Jun 2024

  • Contemporary Music

Slinking into Sydney for the first time ever, Grammy-nominated Swedish-Iranian R&B singer Snoh Aalegra brings her smouldering soul to the Concert Hall for one night only.

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Underworld

Concert Hall

30 May – 1 Jun 2024

  • Contemporary Music

Grammy-nominated UK electronic music legends Underworld return to Vivid LIVE for three pulse-pounding euphoric nights in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

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Devonté Hynes: Selected Classical Works with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Concert Hall

29 May 2024

  • Contemporary Music

Grammy-nominated pop polymath Devonté Hynes – aka Blood Orange – makes his long-awaited Vivid LIVE debut, performing his genre-defying classical work with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

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Air play Moon Safari

Concert Hall

25 & 26 May 2024

  • Contemporary Music

Making their long awaited return to Vivid LIVE, French electro wizards Air play their space pop masterpiece Moon Safari live in its entirety for the very first time.

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Arca

Concert Hall

24 May 2024

  • Contemporary Music

Venezuelan-born pop diva Arca – one of the world’s most avant garde superstars – is headed to Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House for her very first Australian performance.

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Influencers are the New Public Intellectuals

  • Rental

For a long time, the word ‘influencer’ conjured stereotypes of activewear and dubious hot takes. But it’s 2024 and social media has well-and-truly revolutionised the public square. Today, the word influencer can refer to an activist or academic who shares short videos on TikTok, YouTube, or Instagram to explain complex concepts on niche subjects for a global audience.

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Feminist Roast

  • On-demand

Roasts are normally a piss-take on an individual: a celebrity, comedian, politician, or public figure. But we’re going rogue and our roastee is an idea - no, a movement: feminism. If you thought the raison d’etre of this festival was above reproach, think again.

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Who Gets to Be Bad?

  • Rental

The conwoman, the sociopathic girl-boss, the apathetic sad woman, and the femme avenger: pop culture has seen a (BIG) rise in the female anti-hero. Yes - finally, we’re allowed to be bad! But most of these characters are white women, leaving Women of Colour as exceptions.

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Our Bodies

  • Rental

It’s judged and pre-judged. It’s targeted and pursued. It’s loved and abused. And from almost the beginning it has been at the centre of our thinking about our rights and our freedoms. Join this high profile agenda-setting conversation about our bodies.

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