OPERA HOUSE IN SYDNEY

SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE - is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of
the world's most famous and distinctive buildings and a masterpiece of 20th-
century architecture

PERFORMANCE VENUES AND FACILITIES - The Sydney Opera House includes a number of
performance venues

Concert Hall - With 2,679 seats, the home of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and used by a
large number of other concert presenters. It contains the Sydney Opera House Grand Organ,
the largest mechanical tracker action organ in the world, with over 10,000 pipes.

Joan Sutherland Theatre: A proscenium theatre with 1,507 seats, the Sydney home of Opera
Australia and The Australian Ballet. Until 17 October 2012 it was known as the Opera
Theatre.

Drama Theatre: A proscenium theatre with 544 seats, used by the Sydney Theatre Company
and other dance and theatrical presenters.

Playhouse: A non-proscenium end-stage theatre with 398 seats.

HISTORY

was designed by danish architect John Utzon after he unexpectedly won the competition to
design the sydney opera house in 1957.

His submission was one of 233 designs from 32 countries, many of them from the most
famous architects of the day.

it was but completed by an Australian architectural team headed by Peter Hall.

The Government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to
begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction. The government's decision to build Utzon's
design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling
overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation.

CONCEPT AND DESIGN

It is shaped like the sails of a boat. But according to the designers in, his originality actually
comes from the oranges. It is those off half of the skin of the orange inspired him.

Although the roof structures are commonly referred to as "shells", they are precast
concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs, not shells.

OPENING - the building was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973

it was completed in 1973, having cost 100 milion

Cost estimate in 1957 was 7 million and the original completion was planed on January 26
1963(Australia day)