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Monday 5th July - The Opera House
Posted by fredginger | 5th July 2010
We are up early in this rainy morning for a tour of the other half of Sydney's iconography - the opera house. We make our way between the main steps to the box office where we are directed down further into the belly of Bennelong Point to the tour meeting point underneath the grey concrete gables of the magnificent sails. They don't form one building as the photographs and postcards suggest, but three - a small restaurant-cum-cabaret and two huge theatre halls. We are greeted by our tour guide who insists we have our photos taken before we start - we drop bags in the cloakroom (free, which is good as the tour is an hour long) and are informed of the various photography rules - the whole place is a working venue and many of the sets are copyrighted, so no pictures allowed in some places. We are supplied with radio headsets again and ushered up an escalator to the underneath of the first set of sails.
The inside is all marble and glass, very modern for the 1950's. We walk past the three smaller halls: the Playhouse, the Studio and Drama Theatre, and are shown a video detailing the conception of the opera house and how the design of a 38-year-old Dancame architect came to be one of the modern wonders of the world. Until 1902 Bennelong Point had been a fort and a site for cattle grazing, and after that it became a tram shed. But in 1955 it was chosen to be the site to build the winner of a worldwide design competition.
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