Sydney Opera House

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The Sydney Opera House honours our First Nations by fostering a shared sense of belonging for all Australians, and we acknowledge the Gadigal, traditional custodians of Tubowgule, the land on which the Opera House stands.

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Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, the Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue arts and performance centre. It is widely regarded as one of the world’s famous and distinctive buildings, a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, beginning with his selection in 1957 as winner of an international design competition.

Construction began in 1959, although it was not complete until 1973, when Utzon left the project in 1966 after bitter arguments with Australian officials regarding cost and schedule issues. It was completed by an Australian architectural team headed by Peter Hall.

The building was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973.

The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point, between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, adjacent and north of the Sydney Central Business District and the Royal Botanic Gardens to the east, and the nearby Sydney Harbour Bridge on the west.

There are three resident companies: Opera Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. The site is visited by more than eight million people annually, with approximately 350,000 visitors taking a guided tour of the building each year. The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust.

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Autopsy On a Dream – The story of the missing Opera House film

Just as interesting is the history of the concept, construction and completion of the Sydney Opera House.

In 2012, ABC creative director Sam Doust discovered something that wasn’t supposed to be found. Buried beneath piles of dusty stock footage in a BBC repository was a 16mm rough cut of a documentary. Completely stripped of sound, it ran 56 minutes and opened with a panning shot across a construction site on Sydney’s Bennelong Point…

The story of the missing Attenborough Opera House film, Dominic Ellis, Sydney Opera House³

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