By 1954, he succeeded in gaining the support of NSW Premier John Cahill, who called for designs for an opera house. At the time, the normal venue for such productions was the Sydney Town Hall, but this venue was simply not large enough. The Opera House can be said to have had its beginnings during the late 1940s in the actions of Eugene Goossens, the Director of the NSW State Conservatorium of Music at the time, who lobbied to have a suitable venue for large theatrical productions built. Its five theatres are the Concert Hall (with a seating capacity of 2679), Opera Theatre (1547 seats), Drama Theatre (544 seats), Playhouse (398 seats) and Studio Theatre (364 seats). Its interior is composed of pink granite mined from Tarama, NSW and white birch and brush box plywood supplied from northern NSW. Despite their self-cleaning nature, they are still subject to maintenance and replacement. The opera house's roof is contructed of glazed white granite tiles. It has five theatres, five rehearsal studios, four restaurants, six bars and numerous souvenier shops. The power is distributed by 645 kilometres of electrical cable. Its power supply is equivalent for a town of 25,000 people. It is supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25 metres below sea level. It is 185 metres tall and about 120 metres high at is widest point. The Opera House covers 1.8 hectares of land, and offers 4.5 hectares of usable office space. There have been constant calls for the space to be renovated, possibly by moving the opera company into the larger and more acoustically suitable Concert Hall and shifting the orchestra to a new venue.
The acoustics in the opera house, particularly in the Opera Theatre, have been criticised as unsatisfactory. It is adminstered by the Opera House Trust, under the New South Wales (NSW) Ministry of the Arts. Tourists, most with no interest in opera, throng to the building in their thousands purely to see it.Īs well as many touring theatre, ballet, and musical productions the Opera House is the home of Opera Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. To some the spherical-sectioned shells remind them of the flotilla of sailboats commonly cruising there. Situated on Bennelong Point at Sydney Harbour, with parkland to its south and close to the enormous Sydney Harbour Bridge, the building and its surroundings are an iconic Australian image. The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th-century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world.
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