Location: Sydney Opera House, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Bennelong Point, Sydney Dates: 2 January – 28 March, 2025 Opera Australia Once upon a time, there was a dejected daughter, a spiteful stepmother, a pouty prince, and some selfish sisters. You know the fairy tale, now feel the magic of Laurent Pelly’s whimsical production of Cinderella. After … Read more
Location: Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000 Date: 8 January, 2025 For the first time in five years, beloved singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright returns to the stage in Sydney. This time, he brings a solo-selection of the biggest pop and folk compositions from his sweeping 11-album, three-decade career. On piano and guitar, … Read more
Location: King Street Wharf 1 – Darling Harbour, 1 King St, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia Dates: Sunday 1 September from 12pm to 7:30pm Cost & Booking: Adult: $99 Child: $52 We make Father’s Day a celebration to remember. Father’s Day should be fun and special. It’s a day when generations, from great-grandfathers to the newest … Read more
Location: Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: Saturday 20 July from 6:30pm to 7:30pm Saturday 20 July from 8:30pm to 9:30pm Sunday 21 July from 1:30pm to 2:30pm Sunday 21 July from 3:30pm to 4:30pm Wednesday 24 July from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Thursday 25 July from 7:30pm to 8:30pm Friday 26 July … Read more
Location: Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, Sydney NSW 2000 Dates: Every day, 12pm to 3pm, Thursday 21 November to Saturday 21 December Cost & Booking: Adult – $99.00 Christmas crackers surround your reserved table, preparing for a very festive corporate Christmas. Reserve a space now for your business group of 10 to 150 guests. Every Thursday, … Read more
Dates: 24 May – 15 June 2024, 6PM – 11PM Location: Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney NSW 2000 Commissioned for Vivid LIVE 2024 by Destination NSW and the Sydney Opera House. As we are taken into the murky realm of Narcissus, denim, hessian, and a sewn and bundled patchwork of leftover material all become our reality. Here, we are left to ponder what it means to really see oneself as we navigate the textural folds of the narrative. Witness the Sydney Opera House’s renowned sails being covered in large sections of Julia Gutman’s textured artwork for Lighting of the Sails: Retell and reimagine the fable of Narcissus by Roman poet Ovid. This is not just a reimagining of an old tale, but also a clash between antiquated methods and cutting-edge technology. Donated fabrics have been turned into an animated, timely epic by Julia and Pleasant Company through the digitization of centuries-old fabric production skills. Our protagonist appears to us in a fantasia of materials. A girl with a face sewed from an old hessian bag, hair created from her mother’s scarf, and a striped t-shirt. She finds herself pulled into a metaphorical pool by her own reflection. She is thrust into the unknown and has to make her way through perilous denim rivers and stony satin subsoils. Echo uses dance, music, and puppetry to portray a tale of courage, wonder, and vulnerability. It unites the dark and the light, the imagined and the actual, the public and the private. Echo is a reminder to examine ourselves and confront our shadows. You’ll be thinking about its beauty and weirdness long after the lights go off and the fabric has fallen away.