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Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard
8/28 - 11/1/2024


“And now, Mr. DeMille, I’m ready for my close-up…” Musical theatre and international recording superstar Sarah Brightman leads a lavish new production of Andrew Lloyd ...


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Sydney Theatre Company Announces 2025 Season


by A.A. Cristi - September 04, 2024

Sydney Theatre Company has announced its 2025 season, featuring a lineup of new productions and classic revivals....

ODE TO JOY Comes to Sydney Opera House Concert Hall Next Month


by Stephi Wild - September 03, 2024

2024 marks 200 years since Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony with its mighty ‘Ode to Joy’ choral finale in Vienna, sending shockwaves through the artistic heart of Europe and opening the door to a new visionary musical era. A groundbreaking achievement which revolutionised the symphony format w...

REVIEW: SUNSET BOULEVARD Showcases Australian Talent But Brightman Doesn't Quite Get The Return Her Norma Wanted


by Jade Kops - September 02, 2024

Andew Lloyd Webber (Music), Don Black (Book & Lyrics) and Christopher Hampton’s (Book & Lyrics) SUNSET BOULEVARD is given a reworking for Opera Australia and GWB Entertainment by director Paul Warwick Griffin.  ...

Review Roundup: Sarah Brightman Stars in SUNSET BOULEVARD in Sydney


by Blair Ingenthron - September 01, 2024

Sarah Brightman is making her Sydney Opera House debut in SUNSET BOULEVARD, The production features 28-piece orchestra, which brings Andrew Lloyd Webber's work to life on the Sydney Opera House stage. Check out what the critics had to say here!...

REVIEW: Kym Vaitiekus shares his thoughts on MAUI


by Jade Kops - August 31, 2024

REVIEW: Kym Vaitiekus shares his thoughts on MAUI, bought to the Sydney Opera house by Fresh Movement Collective...

Video: First Look At Sarah Brightman In SUNSET BOULEVARD At Sydney Opera House


by A.A. Cristi - August 28, 2024

The lavish new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Tony Award winning musical masterpiece, SUNSET BOULEVARD, starring Sarah Brightman, premieres at Sydney Opera House from August 28 with the official opening night taking place on August 31. Get your first look at the new production below as Brightma...

ISMO Will Embark On 2024 Australian Tour


by Stephi Wild - August 27, 2024

No matter where you are in the world, ISMO has an undeniable ability to make people see familiar cultural norms in an entirely new way!  ISMO's WOO HOO! WORLD TOUR kicks off in Australia in November 2024. ...

ELF THE MUSICAL Will Make Australian Premiere


by Stephi Wild - August 19, 2024

Christmas has come early with the Sydney Opera House’s announcement that Elf: The Musical will make its Australian premiere in a presentation designed for the Concert Hall from 19 – 29 December....

REVIEW: Part TED Talk, Part Staged Reading, PRIDE & PREJUDICE AN ADAPTION IN WORDS AND MUSIC is And Enlightening And Entertaining Look At The Well Known Classic


by Jade Kops - August 17, 2024

PRIDE & PREJUDICE AN ADAPTION IN WORDS AND MUSIC shines a light on two important elements that go into understanding the Regency world that underpins Jane Austen’s famous novel of manners....

Flying Fruit Fly Circus Will Perform BIG SKY


by Stephi Wild - August 16, 2024

Australia's National Youth Circus, the Flying Fruit Fly Circus will present Big Sky; a breathtaking new circus experience that explores the hopes and dreams of young people living in country towns, at The Cube Wodonga from 29th – 31st August and the Sydney Opera House from 28th September – 5th Octob...

Past Shows

Horizon
Horizon
6/11 - 7/13/2024


There is a place between the sea and the sky – a sacred realm, where the sun rises and falls, and the light is new. ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream


Shakespeare’s classic comedy,  A Midsummer Night’s Dream , is reawakened in this breathless production brimming with magic, mirth and mayhem. Love is in the air ...

Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night
10/24 - 11/19/2023


HIDDEN IDENTITIES AND UNREQUITED LOVE Viola is shipwrecked and believes her twin Sebastian lost to the ocean. Washed up in a strange new land, determined ...

The Tap Pack
The Tap Pack
7/19 - 7/30/2023


Picking up where the Rat Pack left off, The Tap Pack conjure up a modern twist to the crooners and artists from the ‘50s through ...

Sydney International Piano Competition – Finals


The Sydney International Piano Competition   is thrilled to announce the return of the world-renowned competition from 5th to 22nd July, with 32 of the ...

Sydney Comedy Festival Gala – Sydney Opera House


Catch the hottest acts of the Sydney Comedy Festival all in one incredible show! Sydney’s biggest month of comedy kicks off in grand style with ...

Simone Young conducts Beethoven’s Fidelio


The Sydney Symphony Orchestra will present Beethoven’s Fidelio as an opera-in-concert, collaborating with internationally-renowned artists from across the globe.   Sydney Symphony Orchestra Chief Conductor Simone ...

James Ehnes performs Beethoven
James Ehnes performs Beethoven
11/9 - 11/12/2022


Grammy-award winning James Ehnes, one of the world’s most sought-after violinists, returns to perform his masterly interpretation of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Sydney Symphony ...

Compassion: Lior & Nigel Westlake


Australian singer-songwriter Lior and acclaimed composer Nigel Westlake team up to present “ Compassion” with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. Based on Hebrew-Arabic text, “ Compassion” ...

Meremere
Meremere
8/25 - 8/27/2022


An award-winning performance documentary from renowned dancer and performer Rodney Bell Ngti Maniapoto, Meremere draws on Bells Maori culture, creating a richly layered work of ...

UnWrapped
UnWrapped
5/8 - 6/11/2022


The Sydney Opera House presents new work responding to the ever-evolving landscape as part of the latest season of UnWrapped. Out-of-the-box and stimulating, UnWrapped includes ...

La Boheme
La Boheme
4/1 - 4/2/2022


"On a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends lives change forever.Experience the romance of the original bohemian ...

La Juive
La Juive
9/3 - 3/26/2022


From her to oblivionCan love ever drive out hatred?A young couple begin a dangerous, passionate affair. In their world, a Jew cannot love a Christian. ...

Maria Stuarda
Maria Stuarda
3/23 - 3/25/2022


A throne is not made for two Which Queen will rule her country and his heart?Every aria demands greatness. Some interpretations transcend talent to reach ...

Otello
Otello
2/19 - 3/19/2022


Good or evil. Life or death.A flawed hero. An innocent woman. A masterful villain.Verdi takes the best bits of one of Shakespeares most famous works ...

Turandot
Turandot
1/12 - 3/14/2022


As the moon rises, a death cry wails through imperial Peking. Torture and death mean nothing. Freedom means everything. Can the princess win her hearts ...

The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro
1/27 - 2/18/2022


A chaotic whirlwind of mistaken identities makes the wedding day of Figaro and Susanna a lesson in hilarity.With a witty, fast-moving libretto and hum-along melodies, ...

New Year's Eve at the Sydney Opera House


On a freezing Christmas Eve, love sparks. Two hands meet in the dark and four friends lives change forever.Dress up to the nines, kick up ...

A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
10/12 - 11/7/2021


Shakespeares classic comedy, A Midsummer Nights Dream, is reawakened in this breathless production brimming with magic, mirth and mayhem. Love is in the air in ...

Hamlet
Hamlet
8/7 - 9/4/2021


Originally programmed for Bell Shakespeares 30th anniversary season in 2020, Peter Evans critically acclaimed production of one of Shakespeares most iconic and tragic works returns ...

One Man In His Time: John Bell and Shakespeare


If I had my life again, I would choose no other course John BellSpend an evening with John Bell, a man who believed that Australians ...

Four Tet
10/16


The Sydney Opera House will stream Four Tet - Live from Sydney Opera House, a concert that took place in 2016. The stream will premiere ...

Faulty Towers The Dining Experience


This 'outrageous, ingenious' show ( scenestr) makes its triumphant return for the 9th season to the one and only Sydney Opera House in March 2020 ...

SIX
1/4 - 3/5/2020


book: Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss; lyrics: Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss; music: Toby Marlow, Lucy Moss; dir: Jaime Armitage, Lucy Moss....

La Bohème
1/2 - 1/30/2020


Giacomo Puccini’s beautiful score has made this poignant tragedy the most performed and the most popular opera in the world. la Bohème has been the ...

Penn & Teller: The world's greatest comedy magicians


The masters of modern magic Penn & Teller will bring their record-breaking Las Vegas live show to Australia for the very first time in January ...

Cirque Stratosphere
Cirque Stratosphere
12/24 - 12/29/2019


A dazzling new show, Cirque Stratosphere features gravity-defying acts on a scale never seen before at the Opera House. For six nights only, a troupe ...

Il Viaggio a Reims
10/24 - 11/2/2019


Il viaggio a Reims Gioachino Rossini Il viaggio a Reims is set in a spa hotel where dignitaries from all over Europe have assembled on ...

The Marriage of Figaro
10/18 - 11/2/2019


One of the most celebrated and delightfully amusing operas ever written, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro involves a wildly entertaining parade of mistaken identities, cross-dressing ...

Great Opera Hits
2/11 - 10/27/2019


These relaxed concerts make for a perfect evening, as the sun sets across Sydney Harbour, and last around 90 minutes. Listen to famous arias from ...

Natives Go Wild
Natives Go Wild
10/19 - 10/27/2019


World premiere of First Nations cabaret Natives Go Wild at Sydney Opera House.Step right up into a wild world of mystery. A mistold tale of ...

West Side Story
8/16 - 10/6/2019

Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance


In an Australian exclusive, one of ballets biggest superstars balances the old and the new, and spins an ode to an art form. Witness Osipovas ...

Natalia Osipova’s Pure Dance


In an Australian exclusive, one of ballets biggest superstars balances the old and the new, and spins an ode to an art form. Witness Osipovas ...

Thrones! The Musical Parody
Thrones! The Musical Parody
6/5 - 6/30/2019


This June, the Sydney Opera House will premiere the latest edition of Thrones!, the uproarious musical parody of HBOs Game of Thrones. Fresh off the ...

Chamber Pot Opera
Chamber Pot Opera
11/4 - 4/28/2019


Following seasons in Adelaide, Edinburgh and St Petersburg, Russia, CHAMBER POT OPERA returns to Sydney to play in Australias foremost Opera venue, the Sydney Opera ...

Junior Adventure Tour
Junior Adventure Tour
9/29 - 10/8/2018


Uncover mysterious secrets and unusual facts with this jam-packed journey through the Sydney Opera House. The Junior Adventure Tour is filled with interactive activities and ...

The Gauntlet
The Gauntlet
9/1 - 9/2/2018


Part of Antidote 2018, The Gauntlet is a tonal experiment like no other. Formations of singers will create musical phrases and tones that echo around ...

Snow White
Snow White
6/6 - 6/10/2018


Featuring costumes by legendary haute couture designer Jean Paul Gaultier, lavish sets by Thierry Leproust and music by Gustav Mahler, this wickedly dark retelling of ...

The Miss Behave Gameshow
The Miss Behave Gameshow
3/7 - 3/18/2018


Direct from Las Vegas and following sold out seasons around the globe, this smash-hit show starring London’s queen of cabaret, Amy Saunders (La Soiree, La ...

Limbo Unhinged
Limbo Unhinged
1/4 - 3/3/2018


Plunge into an exciting world of deeply seductive acts and other-worldly talent in this fast-paced, kaleidoscopic experience. The atmosphere is charged and the air itself ...

Operation Ouch!
Operation Ouch!
1/6 - 1/7/2018


The stars of the hit ABC Me series Operation Ouch! have been hard at work, creating more incredible medical stunts and even crazier experiments. Returning ...

Three Sisters
Three Sisters
11/8 - 12/18/2017


What if you could start life over again, knowing what you do now? What if it were all a rough draft waiting to be rewritten? ...

Green Day's American Idiot
Green Day's American Idiot
1/11 - 11/14/2017


Winner of two Tony Awards® and the Grammy® Award for Best Musical Show Album, American Idiot is the explosive new musical featuring the entire Green ...

Dinner
Dinner
9/11 - 10/28/2017


Paige is a socialite extraordinaire with a nasty streak that runs a mile deep. Tonight, she is reluctantly celebrating her husband’s best-selling book. The usual ...

Choir of Hard Knocks 10th Anniversary ‘Hope and Inspiration’ Tour


Choir of Hard Knocks 10th Anniversary ‘Hope and Inspiration’ Tour Melbourne Street Choir Inc presents Choir of Hard Knocks With Founding Artistic Director Dr Jonathon ...

Switzerland
Switzerland
11/3 - 12/20/2014


A stranger calls... Finely plotted, suspenseful and surprising, Switzerland will have you on the edge of your seat. Following the success of Fury in 2013, ...

Children of the Sun
Children of the Sun
9/8 - 10/25/2014


Following on from his adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Andrew Upton's new adaptation of Maxim Gorky's Children of the Sun takes a fresh, colloquial look ...

Pinocchio
Pinocchio
4/11 - 5/4/2014


Once there was a lonely man with lots of love to give. He wanted a child so much that he carved himself a beautiful little ...

Noises Off
Noises Off
2/17 - 4/5/2014


From Wilde to Orton via Benny Hill, English comedy has trodden a fine line between the incisively witty and the earthily broad. Of course the ...

Cinderella
11/29 - 12/18/2013


Cinders is getting a brand-new dress! Alexei Ratmansky, formerly artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet and now resident choreographer of American Ballet Theatre, is creating ...

La Sylphide
11/7 - 11/25/2013


Act I James, a young Scottish farmer, dozes in an armchair. The Sylphide, a woodland sprite, kneels by his side. After flitting around the room, ...

Macbeth
Macbeth
7/21 - 9/27/2013


A dark prophecy triggers Shakespeare's gory tragedy that charts the rise, rise and fall of a political couple whose wayward moral compass takes them in ...

South Pacific
9/12 - 9/27/2013


After 7 Tony Awards ® and sell-out seasons on Broadway and the West End, the Lincoln Centre Theater’s stunning production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South ...

Tosca
7/6 - 8/31/2013


ohn Bell directs a stark, monumental staging of Puccini’s riveting drama of love, jealousy and sacrifice set in Mussolini’s Italy in the 1940s. Two true ...


In his Requiem, Verdi brought together his theatrical instincts, his gift for vocal writing and a whole life’s experience to create a musical work that ...

Blak
6/8 - 6/22/2013


In 2013, internationally acclaimed Bangarra Dance Theatre presents Blak. Choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Page and emerging choreographer and company dancer Daniel Riley McKinley, Blak ...

Vanguard
4/30 - 5/18/2013


To celebrate the centenary of the magnificent Ballets Russes, I have embarked upon generating a diptych: two contrasting yet complementary ideas produced on two sides ...

Don Quixote
4/5 - 4/24/2013


Don Quixote is on a quest: to find the idealised beloved of his age-addled dreams. The mettlesome lovers Kitri and Basilio are also on a ...

Frankenstein
3/27 - 4/13/2013


Thrilling, moving, scary and beautiful – a man born as an adult has to survive on his wits, learning fast. This is a rollercoaster ride ...

Orpheus in The Underworld
2/28 - 3/27/2013


Sparkling melodies, cartoonish delights, pyrotechnics and fast-paced dance routines make this production of Offenbach’s operetta a treat for all ages. The worlds of musical theatre ...

Dancestry
3/22 - 3/24/2013


One of the highlights of the Message Sticks Festival is the daily Dancestry grounds, where traditional ceremony is performed each day. This year’s gathering in ...

Carmina Burana
3/21 - 3/23/2013


Carmina Burana is fated to be one of the most famous and recognised of all choral works on the strength of just one number. But ...


Tchaikovsky always wears his heart on his sleeve, whether in the exhilarating brilliance of his most popular piano concerto or in his youthful and very ...

Yes, Prime Minister
2/13 - 3/2/2013


The much loved BBC hit TV series is now a hilarious new stage play and has become London’s biggest hit comedy in decades. Enter Jim ...

Swan Lake
12/1 - 12/30/2012


Swan Lake, the world’s most beloved ballet, returns to its roots in a new traditional production by The Australian Ballet. Created especially for our 50th ...

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