Concert Hall
One of the world’s most sought after venues, the Concert Hall is a performance space like no other. With its cathedral like ambience and unrivalled majesty, standing on this very special stage will see you deliver a performance to remember.
Venue information
Seating
The Concert Hall seats up to 2664 people in the round or up to 2102 facing the stage.
Commercial hirers
Information for staging a performance
Location and access
The Concert Hall is located beneath the largest of Sydney Opera House’s roof sails, filling the upper levels of the west side of the building. Best accessed through the covered concourse.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators).
Upcoming events
Kutcha Edwards & the Sydney Symphony
14 Oct 2025
Kutcha Edwards is a force of nature. Come together at the Sydney Opera House as iconic activist and multi award-winning songwriter Kutcha Edwards – ‘quite possibly the finest contemporary singer of his generation’ (Rhythms Magazine) – presents Ngarli-Wangu, together with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey.
Lime Cordiale with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
16 – 18 Oct 2025
Join Lime Cordiale on this transformative emotional journey at the Sydney Opera House, together with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Together with conductor Vanessa Scammell and arranger Alex Turley, the band have dug through their entire catalogue and selected a killer setlist to give the symphonic treatment to.
CHEEK LIVE Everything is F*cked
19 Oct 2025
Abyssal political divides, global conflict, a worm in the White House, the desperate need to have a laugh. Following a sold-out event at City Recital Hall, Hannah Ferguson returns with CHEEK LIVE: Everything is F*cked. Armed with analysis, opinions, a moral compass and a microphone, Hannah is joined in the first half by a very special guest, Lisa Wilkinson — one of Australia’s most respected journalists and broadcasters, Logie-winner, multi-Walkley nominee, and author of the acclaimed memoir It Wasn’t Meant To Be Like This.
