Apple ve Sydney Opera Binası iş birliği: Avustralya’nın yaratıcı gücü sahnede

#SydneyOperaHouse #apple

https://applebulteni.com/2026/03/09/apple-ve-sydney-opera-binasi-is-birligi-avustralyanin-yaratici-gucu-sahnede/

Golden sunset over Sydney — where architecture meets the sea in a symphony of color. This textured palette-knife style painting captures the iconic harbor glowing with energy, movement, and light. A statement piece for lovers of travel, coastal cities, and modern impressionist art.

Art here: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sydney-opera-house-at-sunset-joseph-s-giacalone.html

#SydneyArt #SydneyOperaHouse #HarbourBridge #ModernImpressionism #LandscapePainting #FineArtForSale #ArtCollectors #WallArtDecor #SunsetArt #ContemporaryArt #ArtLovers 🎨🌅

Turandot, friends. Get amongst it. Absolutely fantastic #Opera #SydneyOperaHouse

#Planet Parade over #SydneyOperaHouse
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260224.html

#APOD #Australia

There was also this amazing lamington. #SydneyOperaHouse #Australia

I still often think about this #SydneyOperaHouse-shaped pavlova we ate at the Sydney Opera House. #Australia

Buyin' bread from a man in Brussels
He was six-foot-four and full of muscle
I said, "Do you speak-a my language?"
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
And he said

[Chorus]
"I come from a land down under
Where beer does flow and men chunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover", yeah

~ 'Down Under’ by Men at Work (1981)

#AustraliaDay #AboriginalFlag #SydneyOperaHouse #Lyrics #Music #MenAtWork #DownUnder #AusMusic

Now You See Me Live

Magic! Illusions! Danger!

We haven’t seen any of the Now You See Me movies, but B was excited to see the stage show featuring professional magicians and escape artists in action. So back to the Sydney Opera House for the second time this month, just a couple of days before Christmas, this time with Alex coming along too.

On the way in we are asked to take four playing cards from a bin.

What follows is about two hours of sleights of hand, illusions, escapology and mentalism, performed by American Adam Trent, Italian Andrew Basso, Frenchman Enzo Weyne, Canadian Gabriella Lester and Englishman Matthew Pomeroy. There’s card tricks, supposed teleportation, an escape from a water torture box and a live scorpion. There is also plenty of audience participation, so if that’s not your thing don’t sit in the front few rows.

For those of you who might watch, I have no wish to spoil the fun by describing the stunts. Many of them leaving you wondering how they were done, which I think accounts for some of the subdued applause during the show.

Aside from the escapology, which is obviously a largely physical skill on the part of the practitioner (primarily Basso, in this case), magic works by clever contraptions and distraction, along with the fact that our conscious thoughts are preceded by subconscious actions and assumptions. Does free will even exist? Perhaps not, and this is of use to those who would manipulate thought and observation.

Rather than appreciating the deception, I find myself more interested in how the tricks were performed. Of course, this will not be revealed here, so I am left a bit unmoved by the experience. Though I have never watched a professional magic show live before, the performances also feel far too familiar from having sat through too many of the America and Britain’s Got Talent shows that B likes to watch.

If that’s your thing then you will probably enjoy Now You See Me Live. B and Alex certainly did. The audience, many of whom gave a standing ovation seemed to as well. Guess I am a bit disillusioned by magic!

#escapology #illusion #magic #mentalism #NowYouSeeMe #show #SydneyOperaHouse

That time during a tour at the Sydney Opera House #sydneyoperahouse #soh #sydney #nsw #au #memories #2006 #bentsabout

#MeerMittwoch
#SeaWednesday

Noch ein kurzer Abendgruß zum MeerMittwoch😊

#sydney
#australia
#sydneyoperahouse
#fujixt5
#sunset
#availablelight
#landscapephotography
#architecture

Marvel Studios Infinity Saga Concert Experience – Sydney!

It’s been less than two months since I was in Melbourne at the Marvel Studios Infinity Saga Concert Experience, so what is different this time?

Well, for a start, it’s at the Sydney Opera House and being performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under the baton of conductor Benjamin Northey. Also, I had my wife B along with me, Alex staying home to study for exams next week. Tragic, eh, the parents watching superheroes with the kid being all serious and working!

Please see my Melbourne review for the structure of the concert, as this one followed the same pattern, except that conductor Northey gave a longer introduction. I think knowing what to expect helped me enjoy this concert even more than the first outing and allowed me to focus more on the orchestra than the film clips on the big screen.

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra were in fine form, really bringing the scores from the variety of composers to life. We had a great view of the string sections, with the ostinato of variations on Silvestri’s Avengers Theme keeping them busy, while Ramin Djawardi and Christophe Beck’s themes for Iron Man and Ant Man respectively gave the percussionists a huge workout. I noticed that the rock music drummer was kept in a clear plastic enclosure, probably for the safety of the musicians and audience. Drummers have a very wild reputation.

Once again, I thoroughly enjoyed Benjamin Northey’s dramatic conducting as you get the sense he really is channeling the music. So was I. This time I took pleasure in the variation of Patrick Doyle’s Thor and Pinar Toprak’s Captain Marvel, freed from the expectation of what they should sound like based on the soundtrack.

It was also fun sharing the experience with B and with the rest of the vocal audience, some of whom rose to give the orchestra a deserving standing ovation.

I certainly had a marvellous time!

#benjaminNorthey #concert #filmMusic #marvel #music #orchestra #sydneyOperaHouse #sydneySymphonyOrchestra

https://unescowhstamps.blogspot.com
Sydney Opera House, Australia – UNESCO World Heritage Site
#UNESCO #PatrimonioMundial #WorldHeritage #Welterbe #Philately #Filatelia #Sellos #Stamps #Timbres #Philatelie #Briefmarken #UNESCOWorldHeritage #Sydney #SydneyOpera #SydneyOperaHouse #JornUtson #BennelongPoint #HarbourBridge

Percival Everett

Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘James’, Percival Everett joins us for an engrossing conversation about the power of parody & satire to puncture holes in our ideas about race & identity.

1 March 2026
Sydney Opera House

#PercivalEverett #Books #Authors #James #SydneyOperaHouse #Sydney
https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/talks-and-ideas/percival-everett

NSW court rules in police’s favour over planned Sydney Opera House pro-Palestine march

The highest court in NSW has made a prohibition order over a planned pro-Palestinian march to the Sydney…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #Courts #nsw #nswpolice #NSWSupremeCourt #pro-Palestinerally #protest #Sydney #SydneyOperaHouse
https://www.newsbeep.com/173218/

Wonderful music video by Tim Minchin celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House opening back on 20 October 1973.
https://youtu.be/l8ouigVtUvo

It prompted me to read the Wikipedia article. I learned that planning began in the late 1940s and construction started on 2 March 1959.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House#History

#TimMinchin #SydneyOperaHouse #Music

Arts industry leaders call for tax reforms to help struggling sector

The art sector says bold tax reforms could be key to supporting a rapidly changing industry during “challenging…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #annedunn #AU #Australia #Australianmusic #australiantheatre #johnwatson #SydneyOperaHouse #taxreform #theatre #TonyBurke
https://www.newsbeep.com/145455/

Found a cool, moody spot under the Opera House. The way the light hits this tunnel makes everything look like a film noir scene.

#Sydney #SydneyOperaHouse #Monochrome #BlackAndWhite #Urban #ArchitecturePhotography #Australia #Photography #BNW