Sydney Opera House

This week I decided to visit the Sydney Opera House.

The Sydney Opera House is a performance arts center in Sydney, Australia. It opened in 1973 and was largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon. Interestingly, Jørn’s design for the Sydney Opera House won the competition to come up with a design for it in 1957. It was made a UNESCO world heritage site on June 28, 2007.

From the Wikimedia Commons. Retouched.

Contrary to what its name would suggest, the Sydney Opera House houses multiple performance venues. It is among the busiest performance art centers in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances a year attended by around 1.2 million people. It is also one of the most popular tourist destinations in Australia, being visited by about 7 million tourists a year.

Interior of the Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House.
From the Wikimedia Commons. Retouched.

Google Maps had nice satellite and “Street View” perspectives of the Sydney Opera House. Bing Maps had a nice “Bird’s Eye” perspective of it.

Fotopedia served up pictures of the Sydney Opera House in a special online magazine format, coupling beautiful photographs with great information.

Flickr served up 200,866 professional and amateur photographs of the Sydney Opera House.

The best sources of information I found were Wikipedia and the Australian government’s website. The official website for the Sydney Opera House provided information for planning your trip and on past and present performances.

The Sydney Opera House is a beautiful and uniquely constructed building. It rightfully is a place you must visit at least once in your life.