Uncover fascinating stories of the Opera House's rich cultural heritage and design legacy in our new podcast series exploring the building as a work of art, the artwork within it, as well as the decade of renewal and how we are transforming our icon for the 21st century and future generations.
Latest episodes
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22 min
Concert Hall: Raising the roof
This episode looks at how an Opera House appearance has become something of a holy grail for performers around the world and what the revamped Concert Hall signifies for the Opera…
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20 min
Concert Hall: How's the sound?
Despite the Opera House being one of the world's most famous music venues, the Concert Hall has long had a problem. Everyone loves the building, but not everyone loves the way it s…
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31 min
Concert Hall: Beyond the walls of the Concert Hall
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are advised that this episode contains the name and voice of someone who has passed away. Listener discretion is advised. In this ep…
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23 min
Concert Hall: Graffiti in the ceiling
The Opera House's Concert Hall is the building's beating heart, welcoming music greats to its stage for almost 50 years and hosting landmark performances that have made history. Th…
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34 sec
Announcing: New Season It's a Long Story
This week we're launching our new season of the podcast "it's a long story", where you can go deep with iconic writer Zadie Smith, Cantopop superstar and human rights activist Deni…
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19 min
Utzon Tapestry: Homage to C.P.E Bach
The final episode explores Jørn Utzon's tapestry Homage to C.P.E Bach as an expression of music through design and representation of reconciliation. Architect Richard Johnson discu…
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19 min
Le Corbusier's Les Dés sont Jetés
The mystery of the missing tapestry. In this episode, Professor Antony Moulis recalls how in the early 2000s he discovered the correspondence of an unknown tapestry commissioned by…
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19 min
Coburn Tapestries: Conversation and Restoration
The story of how John Coburn's iconic tapestries came to be hung in the theatres once again in 2019. But why had they been taken down and ultimately decommissioned in the 1980s? Th…
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18 min
Coburn Tapestries: The Sun and the Moon
In 1969, architect Peter Hall commissioned John Coburn, an Australian modern abstract artist, to design the Sydney Opera House opera and drama theatre curtains that were celebrated…