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Khalid
In a world exclusive, multi-platinum selling superstar Khalid will celebrate the global release of his highly anticipated third album Sincere by performing it live for the very first time in-the-round in the Concert Hall on 5 and 6 August.
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Sydney Opera House reveals UnWrapped 2024 full program
This spring, Sydney Opera House's UnWrapped series will showcase 14 works, including 11 new commissions, from over 20 cutting-edge independent Australian artists and technologists.
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Herbie Hancock
Celebrating seven decades of music, multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz-funk icon Herbie Hancock will return to the Sydney Opera House on 11 – 12 October 2024 for two in-the-round performances in the Concert Hall.
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La Clique
In an Australian exclusive for its 20th anniversary, trailblazing cabaret variety show La Clique will be shimmying its way into the Opera House from 10 October to 17 November.
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Rehearsals commence for In the Heights at the Sydney Opera House
The 19-strong cast of irrepressible voices bringing In the Heights to the Sydney Opera House this winter has assembled in the rehearsal room, ahead of the season opening on Saturday 20 July 2024.
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Legends of Australian surf cinema return to the Opera House
Iconic Australian surf films return to the Opera House this August in a celebration of the nation’s mythological surfing culture and its radical roots. First Wave, which runs from 9 – 11 August is a curated selection of world premieres, remastered era-defining films, contemporary documentaries and special Q&A events.
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Singapore Symphony Orchestra’s debut Australian tour
The critically-acclaimed Singapore Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Music Director and renowned Austrian conductor Hans Graf, will make its Australian debut in February 2025 with a three-city east coast tour.
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The chefs of the Sydney Opera House team up for a new dining experience
The Sydney Opera House today announced Chefs of the House, a new dining experience that unites all four acclaimed Opera House chefs – Matt Moran (Opera Bar and House Canteen), Peter Gilmore (Bennelong), Mark Olive (Midden by Mark Olive) and Danielle Alvarez (Yallamundi Rooms) – for the first time.
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Your Brain on AI
In a special event at the Sydney Opera House, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Paul Davies, philosopher and cognitive scientist Inês Hipólito and neuroscientist Brett Kagan will appear in conversation on Saturday 17 August to delve into how AI will impact human intelligence and our understanding of consciousness.
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THOM YORKE: EVERYTHING
On his first-ever solo tour, enigmatic UK powerhouse Thom Yorke will make his Sydney Opera House debut playing the Forecourt for two unmissable nights this November.
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Max Richter
One of the world’s most influential and acclaimed composers, post-minimalist master Max Richter, will return to the Sydney Opera House in February 2025 to perform his most recent release In A Landscape alongside his protest album The Blue Notebooks with the American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME).
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MĀUI
New Zealand’s Fresh Movement Collective will bring their vibrant dance theatre work MĀUI to the Drama Theatre on its Australian premiere tour.
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Brenna Hobson appointed Sydney Opera House Director of Programming
After a competitive global recruitment process, the Sydney Opera House has appointed Brenna Hobson as its next Director of Programming, succeeding Fiona Winning who departs in June after six transformative years in the role.
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Lighting of the Sails: Echo by Julia Gutman and Pleasant Company
Multidisciplinary Australian artist and 2023 Archibald Prize winner Julia Gutman, with technologists Pleasant Company, have created Echo, a new animated opus of Gutman’s signature patchwork art illuminating the Sydney Opera House’s sails during Vivid Sydney from 24 May – 15 June 2024.
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In the Heights
Discover Washington Heights at the Sydney Opera House when Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ground-breaking debut musical In the Heights arrives for a strictly limited six-week season from 20 July to 25 August.
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Sydney Opera House announces food and cinema experiences during Vivid Sydney
A pop-up bar by The Midnight Special, a culinary experience by Danielle Alvarez, Vivid Sydney-inspired menus across the Opera House’s dining precinct and a new music-centric cinema program will elevate Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House, part of Vivid Sydney, the Southern Hemisphere’s leading multi-artform festival.
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Sydney Opera House's Winter Kids & Families Program Announced
The Sydney Opera House today announced its huge winter kids and families program of theatre, dance, digital and creative play experiences.
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Joep Beving
Illustrious Dutch pianist Joep Beving will return to the Opera House in July, performing his deeply introspective, neoclassical sound across two immersive shows on Monday 22 July.
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Registrations open for Australia’s only national dance competition DanceRites
Registrations are now open for the eighth annual DanceRites competition, a celebration of First Nations dance, music and culture, taking place on the Opera House Forecourt and live streamed online on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 October.
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Cinema returns to the Opera House
Cinema returns to the Opera House this May with an exciting selection of acclaimed international and local films showing in the Playhouse.
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Class Act and SILENCE make their Sydney premieres in new UnWrapped Season
This May, the Sydney Opera House’s UnWrapped series presents two new Australian works by critically acclaimed independent artists Mish Grigor and Thomas E.S. Kelly and collaborators.
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Line-up revealed for Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House 2024
An unmissable line-up of over 50 cutting-edge and iconic international and Australian artists was today announced for Vivid LIVE at Sydney Opera House, part of the Vivid Music program of Vivid Sydney, Australia’s largest festival of light, music, ideas and food and major showcase of our creative industries, taking place from Friday 24 May to Saturday 15 June.
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Australian master of satire, Jonathan Biggins, returns to the Sydney Opera House
Award-winning actor and writer Jonathan Biggins dons the suit once more to reprise his role as Paul Keating in The Gospel According to Paul.
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Sydney Opera House Presents Generations and Dynasties
The Sydney Opera House today announced the inaugural series of Generations and Dynasties, an intimate showcase of the diversity of musical talent within three esteemed First Nations families. Across three special evenings of conversation, storytelling, and song, the Jarrett father and sons (24 April), Briscoe mothers and daughters (1 May) and Cassar-Daley father/daughter duo (9 May) will celebrate the important role of family and community in First Nations artistry.
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