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Articles and stories from the Sydney Opera House
School holidays survival guide: Spring edition
Our guide to surviving the school holidays this spring with your sanity, and your kids' imagination, intact.
Art at the House
Restoring the Coburn Tapestries
The inside story of Olsen’s celebrated Opera House mural
A Possum Story
Cinema and Screen
What’s new to Stream?
5 Sydney Opera House near misses (in the movies)
What’s on in the Playhouse Cinema this June
Classical Music
Adventures in Chamber Music: Your Guide to the Utzon Music 2024
Under the Sails with the LSO
“Rebirth and resurrection”
Contemporary Music
The artists you should be listening to: The Vivid LIVE Official Playlist
What’s sounding good at the Opera House this Feb - Mar 2024
The Steve Lacy song for every star sign: a cosmic guide
Comedy, Circus & Magic
The stylish Scotsman who’s reinventing mentalism
What’s it really like to run away with the circus?
Vietnam’s villages bloom into a city in À Ố Làng Phố
Dance
Cheat Sheet: Horizon
What you need to know about… Romeo and Juliet Suite
Stage Direction: Anna Karenina
In this edition of Stage Direction, Stephen A Russell traces the tracks of Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s tempestuous ode to love, loss and family, ahead of its latest ballet adaptation at the Sydney Opera House.
First Nations
Badu Gili’s Frances Belle Parker
Deborah Mailman on Rhoda Roberts’ “remarkable” 16 years at the Sydney Opera House
Why NAIDOC matters
Kids & Families
Stage Direction: Grug & Magic Beach
How does a treasured childhood classic become a living, breathing three-dimensional theatre tale? Lenny Ann Low looks at the art of adapting two iconic picture books for the Opera House stage.
School holidays survival guide
From stage to story: books for kids
Musical Theatre & Cabaret
Stage Direction: In the Heights
Your step-by-step guide to dancing like you’re in Washington Heights, the setting of Lin Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical In the Heights.
Stage Direction: The Phantom of the Opera
Unmask Phantom, the original ‘mega-musical’, from its humble beginnings in a French newspaper to being part of our cultural DNA over 100 years later.
The viral musical you’ve probably never heard of
Opera
Brett Whiteley: A life, an opera
Love List: Great Opera Hits by Guy Noble
Cheat sheet: La Bohème
Talks & Ideas
Why your next computer may be a lab-grown brain
The recipes that made her famous: Alison Roman’s internet-breaking meals
Mother tongues and minor feelings
Theatre
Stage Direction: Amadeus
In this edition of Stage Direction, Stephen A Russell delves into the irresistible appeal of a feverishly imagined operatic tragedy.
Stage Direction: The Little Prince
In the first of our new series on page-to-stage adaptations, Neha Kale looks at how Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s poignant tale of a young prince lives on in the 21st century.