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Live PerformancesContemporary Music

Underworld at Sydney Opera House

Electronic music legends returned to the Concert Hall for a euphoric series of sold-out shows during Vivid LIVE 2024. Featuring classic tracks from across their catalogue and never before seen behind-the-scenes footage, this new concert film showcases why this iconic duo have stood the test of time over the past four decades.

  • On-demand
  • Contemporary Music

Fever Ray - Vivid LIVE 2024

More than two decades after reshaping electronic music as one-half of The Knife, Swedish avant-pop artist Fever Ray brought their radical sonic vision to Vivid LIVE 2024 for their highly anticipated Australian debut.

  • On-demand
  • Contemporary Music

Sid Sriram, Priya Ragu & Raf-Saperra - Vivid LIVE 2024

Sonic delights from the South Asian diaspora take centre stage in this electrifying concert film, showcasing a trio of genre-defying global stars. Returning to Vivid LIVE in 2024, tastemakers Astral People curated a groundbreaking performance featuring three of the world’s most buzzed-about artists.

  • On-demand
  • Contemporary Music

Live PerformancesOrchestral, Ballet and Opera

The Cat Empire with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

In this special concert recording, The Cat Empire join forces with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in an electrifying collaboration.

  • On-demand
  • Contemporary Music
  • Classical Music

Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Simone Young conducts Gurrelieder

Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was transformed into a musical tapestry of monumental scale, featuring an orchestra of 140 musicians and a chorus of 285.

  • On-demand
  • Classical Music

Sydney Symphony Orchestra - Play with Ray (2023)

Presented by the Sydney Symphony and Ray Chen, Play with Ray will make dreams a reality for three emerging violinists. Together, they’ll perform Bach’s extraordinary and dramatic Concerto for Two Violins, with each violinist featuring in one movement alongside Ray Chen. Bach’s beautiful interweaving melodies and cascading passages will allow each violinist their moment to shine.

  • On-demand
A man a brown suit holding a violin.

Live PerformancesTheatre and Dance

Plagiary by Alisdair Macindoe

Constructed by multi-award-winning dance technologist and choreographer Alisdair Macindoe, Plagiary hands creative decision-making over to artificial intelligence in a unique dance performance experiment.

  • On-demand
  • Free
  • Dance

DanceRites 2024

DanceRites 2024 transformed the Sydney Opera House Forecourt into a vibrant celebration of live dance, music, and community.

  • First Nations
  • Dance

Slide Night

Hosted by the award-winning Rove McManus, come on over to our House for a Slide Night - an evening of spontaneous comedy where anything can happen.

  • Theatre
  • Comedy
Collage of Rove McManus in black and white in a thoughtful pose, with six slide photographs scattered around him.

Performance Films

In Session

‘In Session’ is a series of intimate, long-form music films, staged behind closed doors. In taking a highly stylised filmic approach, ‘In Session’ goes beyond the confines of a traditional performance film, giving audiences an entirely unique and close-up perspective on their favourite artists.

  • On-demand

SHIFT | New Classical Music

This groundbreaking series of performance films takes audiences on a journey through New Music works from five artists who live with disability, shifting the conversation to celebrate their unique contributions to Australia’s musical landscape.

  • On-demand

The Mirror: Sweet Sacred Bliss

Circus and cabaret come together in this cinematically ravishing adaptation of The Mirror, a boundary-pushing work from multi-award-winning company Gravity & Other Myths.

  • On-demand
  • Dance

Documentaries and Interviews

The Fifth Facade - The Making of the Sydney Opera House (1973)

A rare 1973 film documenting the history of Sydney Opera House. Narrated by Jorn Utzon, the Danish architect behind the building's iconic design, who offers insights into his vision and the problems he needed to solve make it a reality.

  • On-demand
A collage in sepia of a man in a suit standing in front of the Opera House under construction, the harbour and the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background.

Whispers: Megan Cope

On Tubowgule, now called Bennelong Point, Quandamooka artist Megan Cope introduces Whispers, a melding of First Nations history and environmental consciousness. In this artwork, commissioned for our 50th anniversary, more than 85,000 oyster shells are positioned across the Sydney Opera House precinct. The artist evokes the ancestral midden sites that were used on this site for Aboriginal celebrations and gatherings for thousands of years.

  • On-demand

On The Level with Brian Cox

Candid, in-depth, and always revealing, On The Level is a monthly interview series that catches up with artists during their visit to the Sydney Opera House, discussing their careers, inspirations, and preparations for their performance.

  • Livestream
An old man with grey hairs and beard wearing a black shirt.

Kids & Families

Polar Bear & Penguin

The tale of an unlikely encounter between a Polar Bear and a Penguin. This is the story of polar opposite characters meeting for the first time, getting to know one another and learning how to survive in a world melting beneath their feet...paws...flippers.

  • On-demand
  • Kids & Families

Teeny Tiny Stevies In Big Spaces

Join much-loved children’s band the Teeny Tiny Stevies as they perform I Ate a Rainbow, Boy or Girl Colour and Boss of My Own Body, plus a selection of favourite songs from their brand new album.

  • On-demand
  • Kids & Families

Tempo - Flying Fruit Fly Circus

Tempo is a show from the Flying Fruit Fly Circus, Australia's National Youth Circus.

  • Kids & Families
  • Circus

Talks & Ideas

Tracy Westerman in conversation with Stan Grant

In this powerful talk, renowned psychologist and Nyamal woman, Dr Tracy Westerman talks with journalist and Wiradjuri man Stan Grant about the transformation taking place in the treatment of Indigenous trauma.

  • On-demand
  • Talks and Ideas

All About Women 2024

Watch a selection of 8 talks from All About Women, the Sydney Opera House’s centrepiece talks festival about gender, justice, and equality, held annually in the week of International Women’s Day.

  • On-demand
  • Talks and Ideas

Jamie Oliver - In Conversation

Watch the renowned Jamie Oliver's Australian exclusive conversation with Melissa Leong.

  • On-demand

Screen Commissions

Lu Yang: DOKU, The Binary World Screening + Q&A

An innovative motion-capture performance, created by renowned Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang. Dancers in Sydney and Hong Kong, meet in the same virtual environment creating a high-energy audiovisual experience that draws on Buddhist philosophy, internet culture, video games and the aesthetics of anime.

  • Dance
  • Experiences
Animated angel and devil.

Shortwave - New Screen Commissions 2024

Shortwave is a commissioning program from Sydney Opera House that invites interdisciplinary artists to explore their relationship with the screen.

  • Cinema

Tender - Four films from CuriousWorks

Tender reveals the nuances and tender sides of the communities of Western Sydney through four individual but interconnected documentary films by multidisciplinary artists.

  • Cinema

Special Presentations

Lighting of the Sails 2024: Echo by Julia Gutman and Pleasant Company

Through fantastic and impossible imagery, Australian artist and Archibald Prize winner Julia Gutman with animation technologists, Pleasant Company, conjure an epic animated journey of inner and self-discovery. Soundtrack by Angus Mills.

  • On-demand

The Last Post (Winds of Change)

The Last Post (Winds of Change) is a new arrangement of the special ceremonial piece, which holds great significance to everyone who has fought for this country, their families, and for Australian citizens.

  • On-demand
Silhouettes of a person playing a bugle and another playing the digeridoo on the sails of the Opera House.

Open House Weekend - Livestream (2023)

Available worldwide from 22 Oct 2023To celebrate our 50th birthday, we’re throwing open our doors for a free event, live-streamed around the world. Join us as we move explore our famous venues and witness the magic that takes place behind the scenes. (Premiere)

  • Livestream