Contemporary Music | Sydney Opera House

Julian Bel Bachir - Sounds of Sahara | From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
On-demand

Join Julian Bel Bachir for a melodic odyssey as he voyages through traditional melodies of Indigenous music from North-Western Africa with a modern influence.

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Low Life | From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
On-demand

In a ferocious performance of guttural guitars and anthemic vocals, Low Life make their Sydney Opera House debut for a cathartic masterclass in pummelling post-punk rhythm live from the Joan Sutherland Theatre.

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Winston Surfshirt - From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
On-demand

Get ready to snuggle in for a Sunday session of lush soul heaters, as Manly’s very own hip-hop funk machine Winston Surfshirt make their Sydney Opera House debut in an intimate performance beamed live to your lounge from the Joan Sutherland Theatre.

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Nooks & Crannies Volume One - A live music tour of Sydney Opera House

Contemporary Music
On-demand

Nooks & Crannies is a unique live music series celebrating iconic architecture and artistic expression in unexpected and spectacular unseen spaces inside Sydney Opera House. In Volume One, watch enchanting performances from Glen Hansard, José González, Hiatus Kaiyote, Conor Oberst, Nai Palm and Poliça as they bring inside spaces outside.

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Bow and Arrow | From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
On-demand

Meet eccentric Blue Mountains-based electro soul duo Bow and Arrow, aka husband and wife team Mindy Jane (Bow) and Mitchell Kwanten (Arrow).

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Tommy Emmanuel 2023

Concert Hall

21 May 2023

Contemporary Music

Internationally acclaimed Tommy Emmanuel returns to Australia May 2023. Tommy’s message is pure love for the guitar and his delight in sharing it with the world, one audience at a time.

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A man with grey hairs wearing a black leather jacket playing a guitar.

Ambient 1: Music for Airports - Alaska Orchestra | From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
Classical Music
On-demand

The Alaska Orchestra led by Megan Alice Clune, along with Heather Shannon and Mara Schwerdtfeger return to Sydney Opera House for their digital stage debut with a live streamed re-imagining of Brian Eno's 1978 landmark album, Ambient 1: Music for Airports accompanied by live visuals from renowned Sydney artist Carla Zimbler.

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Ólafur Arnalds with Sydney Chamber Orchestra - Live

Contemporary Music
Classical Music
On-demand

Premiered in full for the first time, Iceland's BAFTA Award-winning pianist-composer Ólafur Arnalds leads the Sydney Chamber Orchestra arranged by Viktor Orri Árnason in a specially-commissioned performance two years in the making.

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GODTET - 60 Giant Steps | From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
On-demand

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane’s revolutionary composition ‘Giant Steps’, Sydney’s own psychedelic jazz explorers GODTET will expand the original’s four minute blast of hyper-speed virtuosity into a 40 minute meditation on Coltrane’s creativity, spirituality, and how our perceptions of identity, time and place have changed in the face in recent times.

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Ziggy Ramo's Black Thoughts | From Our House To Yours

Contemporary Music
Talks and Ideas
On-demand

In an exclusively commissioned performance featuring a 10-piece band and specially-made visuals, Ziggy Ramo Burrmuruk Fatnowna presents his debut album Black Thoughts like never before as part of the Sydney Opera House's From Our House to Yours weekly program – a live-streamed hip-hop reckoning through love, compassion, dispossession and systemic racism envisioned for listeners from all walks of life.

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