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Spanish Tour

Tuesday and Thursday

Our Sydney Opera House guided tour tailored for Spanish speakers, taking you underneath the world-famous sails.

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German Tour

Monday and Friday

Our Sydney Opera House guided tour tailored for German speakers, taking you underneath the world-famous sails.

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The spherical solution

Jørn Utzon’s realisation that the form of the Sydney Opera House could be derived from the surface of a sphere marked a milestone in 20th century architecture.

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Policies

List of policies that govern operations at the Sydney Opera House.

Projecting a blue pattern on the sails of Sydney opera house.

Conserving and celebrating our heritage

We are transforming the building for future generations while respecting and preserving the very features that make it unique.

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Judy Cassab at the Joan Sutherland Theatre

Judy Cassab, born in Vienna in 1920, migrated after the war to Sydney, where she became an artist of singular talent and vision.

Nominate your school! The Sydney Opera House Play Award is an annual award for a school, learning program, class or an individual student or teacher, who has made a remarkable and ongoing contribution to ‘play in learning’ with demonstrated positive impacts.

Pieces of colourful paper cut out to make fun shapes

Community

Read more about Community at the Opera house.

Annabel Crabb on Australia’s parenthood trap

Following Annabel Crabb’s live talk at the Opera House, read an extract from her Quarterly Essay ‘Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap’.

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Why your next computer may be a lab-grown brain

We interview Dr Brett Kagan, Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs, a Melbourne-based biological computing startup trying to revolutionise the AI industry by replacing current computer chip technology with biological alternatives, offering far more processing power for significantly less energy usage.

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