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  • The Body Free and Powerful: Olivia Laing: Antidote 2022

    • On-demand

    The body is the arena where power and politicised control play out. Join Olivia Laing as she examines how bodies encounter oppression and resistance, and reshape the world.

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  • You can now watch Underworld turn the Concert Hall into a rave cave

    • Contemporary Music

    The electronic dance duo has owned the scene for decades. In the 90’s, they transitioned from synth-pop to techno, releasing influential albums dubnobasswithmyheadman, Second Toughest in the Infants and Beaucoup Fish. Their nostalgic track Born Slippy (Nuxx) featured in Trainspotting became an international smash hit. And in 2012, they even scored the London Olympics.

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  • Tkay Maidza - 24k

    • Contemporary Music
    • On-demand

    After a four-year hiatus, and fresh off her tour with Billie Eilish, Zimbabwe-born Australian hip-hop star Tkay Maidza makes her long-awaited Sydney Opera House debut.

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  • Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra (2023)

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    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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  • Music at the House Jónsi & Alex Somers - Riceboy Sleeps Live

    • Contemporary Music
    • On-demand

    In celebration of the album's 10th anniversary, Sigur Rós vocalist Jónsi and his partner, musician Alex Somers, performed 'Riceboy Sleeps' at Vivid LIVE 2019 in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney International Orchestra and Choir. Watch highlights from the performance including 'Happiness', 'Indian Summer' and 'Boy 1904'.

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  • Shortwave: Eugene Choi | A Burning House

    • On-demand

    Shortwave is a series of new digital commissions, designed to platform a diverse cross-section of emerging or early career interdisciplinary Australian artists working at the forefront of digital performance.

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  • The Takeover

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    What happens when you suspend the school timetable for 3 weeks and give students full creative control? Follow the journey of teachers and students of Liverpool Boys High School in Western Sydney, as the traditional school structure is turned on its head and creativity takes the reins.

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  • Brian Cox: The Evil in Us All: Antidote 2022 (Highlights)

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    As an actor for stage and screen, Brian Cox has built a brilliant career on getting under the skin of tyranny. His depiction of the tyrannical media patriarch, Logan Roy, in the television series Succession, embodies the mixture of repulsion and envy felt towards the ultra-rich elites.

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  • Riverbed Theatre (Taiwan)

    • On-demand

    Riverbed Theatre, The Weight of Things (2021), video, 13:30. Commissioned by Sydney Opera House and C-LAB, Taiwan with the support of the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. Courtesy the artists. (Craig Quintero, Lynn Yeh, Kuan-Yu Chen, John Rommereim, Carl Johnson). Imagined as a Surrealist dreamscape, the Riverbed Theatre's The Weight of Things transports audiences into the world of suspended belief through a series of striking scenes. Threaded together with a dramatic score, evocative cinematography and suggestive narrative, The Weight of Things stirs deep contemplation and reflection about our current moment. The film includes the same cinematic images with two different musical scores. In this Rashomon-inspired experiment, we are reminded that “the truth” is always clouded by our own perspective, that a twice-told tale will never be the same.

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