Sydney Opera House

Sydney Opera House is a famous tourist spot and it is well known for its modern architecture as like Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower

. No one should give it a miss while on Australia travel with kidsor spending an Australia gap year. It is a multiple venue centre for performing arts, which has been photographed for so many times.

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The Sydney Opera House is not only a tourist spot but this house is a representative of beautiful continent-Australia.

This wonderful Opera House was thought and predominately built by a well known Danish architect named Jrn Utzon; it was awarded with Pritzker Prize' in 2003, which is the a great recognition of an architecture work. This masterpiece was opened in 1973, and it is enlisted among the most unique buildings of the 20th century. This beautiful art centre was by Queen Elizabeth II in 1973

This marvelous Opera House is exactly located on Bennelong Point that reaches into the harbor. The skyline view of the Sydney harbor, Sydney Harbor Bridge, and the Sydney Opera House, is really an amazing and spectacular sight to see.

This art centre building has several performance venues in which nearly fifteen hundred performances are performed every year. The performance venues of Sidney Opera House include the Concert Hall with 2,678 seats, Opera Theatre with 1507 seats, Drama Theatre with 544 seats, Playhouse having 398 seats, the Studio with 400 people, the Utzon room with 210 seats and the Forecourt which is a open-air venue most used for outdoor performances.

Apart from shows and performances, some kind of conferences and parties are also happen in this Opera House art centre. Being the most visited tourist spots it attracts about 7 million people each year.

Some of the important and interesting information of Sidney Opera House are

War and Peace by Prokofiev is the first performance performed in the stage of Opera House

The amount spent to construct this building is about $AU 102,000,000

Every year nearly3000 events are conducted in the Opera House

This art centre holds about 1000 rooms in it

The length of the house is 185 meters long and the width is 120 meters and its roof has about 2194 pre-cast concrete parts and the roof holds nearly 1 million tiles

This beautifully designed House was entered in the National Heritage List in 2005, and in 2007, it is included in World Heritage List.

Sydney Opera House

By: Swagers John

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