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Mmmm … doughnuts: Vicky Lu and daughter Chloe with her quirky purchase.

Why I love my $13,000 Opera House doughnut

Vicky Lu has a particularly quirky reason for snapping up one of the iconic Sydney Opera House acoustic reflectors at auction.

  • Nick Galvin

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Lin Utzon with her father, Jørn.

‘Dad, Dad, you won!’: Lin Utzon on life with the man who designed the Opera House

Fifty years since the opening of the building that changed Australia, I spoke to Lin Utzon about the ups and downs of the man who designed it.

  • Peter FitzSimons
GIF -Generic Opera House Daily life for 50th birthday celebrations. Friday 20th October 2023 AFR photo Louie Douvis Generic Opera House Daily life for 50th birthday celebrations. Friday 20th October 2023 AFR photo Louie Douvis Generic Opera House Daily life for 50th birthday celebrations. Friday 20th October 2023 AFR photo Louie Douvis A pair of seagulls welcomes people as they funnel through barriers at the Opera House on Saturday, October 21, 2023. The building opens to the public as part of the 50th birthday celebrations held over the weekend. Photo: Nikki Short / The Sydney Morning Herald (L to R) Stephen Coburn, Kristin Coburn and Daniel Coburn in front of their father John CoburnÕs artwork Curtain of The Sun on Saturday, October 21, 2023. The curtain has been rehung as part of the Opera HouseÕs 50th birthday celebrations held over the weekend. Photo: Nikki Short / The Sydney Morning Herald

Curtain call: The Opera House secrets made public after five decades

One of the highlights of the opening of the Sydney Opera House in October 1973 was the colourful stage curtains. But they have been hidden away in storage ever since, until now.

  • Helen Pitt
The Opera House during constrution.

The 10,000 people and 5000 drawings that built our $102 million Opera House

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary with 37,000 visitors expected to attend open house celebrations this weekend, the Sydney Opera House honours the people who built Australia’s best loved building.

  • Helen Pitt
Then-Prince Charles with his first wife, Princess Diana, at the Sydney Opera House during an Australian tour in 1983.

King Charles leads well-wishes for Sydney Opera House’s 50th birthday

Best wishes from all over Australia and the world have poured in to the Sydney Opera House, as the building celebrates its 50th birthday.

  • Helen Pitt
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The secrets beneath the sails of the Sydney Opera House

As the Sydney Opera House celebrates its 50th birthday, we dive into the scandals, secrets and the more peculiar details beneath its storied sails.

  • Helen Pitt, Tommy Saputra and The Visual Stories Team
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Stills from the video for the song written by Tim Minchin for the Opera House’s 50th birthday

Tim Minchin hopes ‘people feel lightened’ by new Sydney Opera House song

Performer Tim Minchin has written a song to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Sydney’s world-famous Opera House.

  • Helen Pitt
AB5I7726_NikkiTo.jpg Bennelong restaurant. For the GFG2023. The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Alderman David ***** today officially opened the Bennelong Restaurant at the Opera House. Some of the guests in the Bennelong restaurant yesterday.. with the City in the background. Patrons will not find low prices at the Sydney Opera House’s Bennelong restaurant. Prices are higher than at many Sydney restaurants offering similar food. Two Opera House restaurants - the Bennelong and the Harbour - were previewed yesterday by 150 guests of Summit Restaurants Pty. Ltd. The Bennelong is at the top of the main stairs and overlooks the entrance to the Opera House. Prices include $2.75 for a dozen oysters, $4.50 for roast beef salad, $5 for Gillet of beef Wellington, aid $1.50 for mandarin ***** cake, which indicates that a couple dining out would have to pay more than $20 for dinner. The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Alderman David ***** today officially opened the Bennelong Restaurant at the Opera House. Some of the guests in the Bennelong restaurant yesterday.. with the City in the background. Patrons will not find low prices at the Sydney Opera House’s Bennelong restaurant. Prices are higher than at many Sydney restaurants offering similar food. Two Opera House restaurants - the Bennelong and the Harbour - were previewed yesterday by 150 guests of Summit Restaurants Pty. Ltd. The Bennelong is at the top of the main stairs and overlooks the entrance to the Opera House. Prices include $2.75 for a dozen oysters, $4.50 for roast beef salad, $5 for Gillet of beef Wellington, aid $1.50 for mandarin ***** cake, which indicates that a couple dining out would have to pay more than $20 for dinner. July 23, 1973. (Photo by Pearce/Fairfax Media). tra21-foodoperahouse Annie Dang Bennelong Restaurant circa 1985 (c) SOH (2) supplied by SOH tra21-foodoperahouse Annie Dang Bennelong Restaurant circa 1985 (c) SOH (2) supplied by SOH

From potted possum to pavlova: the changing tastes of Sydney diners

If you want to plot the evolution of Australian fine dining, just take a glimpse at the 1973 menu of the Bennelong restaurant at the Sydney Opera House.

  • Helen Pitt

Jørn again: In the year of the Voice, our unfinished Opera House is a perfect national symbol

Defying simple definitions, the Sydney Opera House encapsulates the contradictions of the country it has come to symbolise.

  • Nick Bryant

Sydney Opera House commemorative 50th anniversary magazine

Sydney Opera House commemorative 50th anniversary magazine

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