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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

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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

Sydney Opera House commemorative 50th anniversary magazine

Sydney Opera House commemorative 50th anniversary magazine

Utzon in front of the partially constructed Opera House in 1965.

Jørn again: Key movers in Opera House drama reveal how they brought Utzon back

More than 30 years after he left Australia in a blaze of controversy, Jørn Utzon was approached again by the Opera House. The main players reveal their roles.

  • Anne Maria Nicholson
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Can Lis, Utzon’s home on the Spanish
island of Mallorca.

Beyond the Opera House: Jørn Utzon’s other buildings

What else did Jørn Utzon design? From inspiring personal projects to an unbuilt glass pagoda to houses reminiscent of Ancient Rome ...

  • Jeni Porter
Peter Hall in front of the Sydney Opera House in 1968.

Peter Hall: the man who lost everything to finish Utzon’s Opera House

The Opera House was a career dream and a personal disaster for the Australian architect, but now he – and engineer Ove Arup – will receive recognition.

  • Linda Morris
Lin and Jan Utzon, the children of Sydney Opera House architect Jorn Utzon, will talk on Tuesday at a lecture for the building’s 50th anniversary on October 20, 1973.

Lin Utzon on life with her architect dad: ‘not a fantasist and dreamer but a fantastic builder’

As the Utzon family come to Sydney to celebrate the 50th birthday of their architect father Jorn’s celebrated Sydney Opera House, Lin Utzon talks to us exclusively from Denmark.

  • Jeni Porter

Sydney Opera House: Fifty years in 50 pictures

From grazing cows to royal couples and zip-lining celebrities, the Opera House has been a gathering point for decades.

  • Helen Pitt

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