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Festivals and Series

Sydney Opera House’s annual programs and series

Utzon Music

Utzon Music 2025 celebrates human curiosity and discovery, welcoming a cast of wildly gifted musicians performing chamber music of European, Norwegian, Persian, Scottish, and contemporary Australian ancestry.

  • Classical Music

Artist to Artist Talks

Artist to Artist is conceived as a series of insights – short, sharp conversations that offer fresh perspectives on local and global cultures.

  • Talks and Ideas

Generations and Dynasties

Four extraordinary First Nations creative and musical families will share their stories, talents, and legacies through captivating conversations and powerful performances.

  • Contemporary Music
  • Talks and Ideas

Our annual festivals

All About Women

8 – 9 Mar 2025

All About Women is the Sydney Opera House’s centerpiece talks festival about gender, justice, and equality, held annually in the week of International Women’s Day. For over a decade, the celebrated event has filled our venues with inspiring moments and buzzy, agenda-setting conversations.

  • Talks and Ideas

Vivid LIVE

23 May – 14 Jun 2025

Crank up the volume…Vivid LIVE returns! Join us for our annual music takeover featuring over 50 cutting-edge international and Australian artists.

  • Contemporary Music

Stream, read & listen

UnWrapped 2023 | Green Room music | Three Marys

Part of Unwrapped 2023, this international collaboration by award-winning composer Andree Greenwell and librettist Christine Evans, this fully staged chamber opera melds music, myth and imagination in an intergenerational story of women who must flee for their lives.

  • On-demand
  • Opera

Under the Sails with the London Symphony Orchestra

In our 50-year history, the Sydney Opera House has welcomed thousands of world-class performers to its halls. But no orchestra has as long and rich a shared history with the Opera House as the London Symphony Orchestra.

  • Classical Music

Love List: Ryuichi Sakamoto by Groovescooter

Paris Pompor and Georgie Zuzak from co-presenters Groovescooter have put together a Love List dedicated to Ryuichi Sakamoto.

  • Playlist
  • Cinema
  • Classical Music