SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE, CONCERT HALL

New Year's Eve is the night when Sydney puts on the bling, kicks up its heels and shows the world what a gorgeous thing it ...

Summertime in Sydney... and Chief Conductor David Robertson has chosen Gershwin's masterpiece Porgy and Bess for our 2016 Opera in the Concert Hall. Blending jazz, ...

Alisa Weilerstein will be the envy of every cellist in the SSO when she takes to the stage to play Dvo?ák. This concerto is loved ...

When a violinist thinks of Tchaikovsky there's the Violin Concerto, of course! But there are other beauties for violin and orchestra, including his Souvenir d'un ...

It's a celebration of youth when members of the Zukerman Trio join forces with the talented SSO Fellows to play Mendelssohn's Octet - an astonishing ...

Inspired by the stunning Rococo palace at Aranjuez in Southern Spain, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez has become one of the most popular concertos of our ...

Like Beethoven's Fifth, the Ninth is more than a famous symphony, it's become a cultural icon. It's a celebration of freedom, of joy, of civilisation ...

The Oscar winning film SHINE made a remarkable impact on audiences when it was released in 1996. Based on the inspiring life story of piano ...

Beethoven was already up to his third piano concerto when his first symphony was premiered. He was first a piano virtuoso, writing music for himself ...

When Beethoven's hero Napoleon proved a disappointment, the composer scratched out the dedication of his Third Symphony and wrote a new one: 'Sinfonia eroica, composed ...

Relish the melodic invention and dynamic flow of two of the Baroque’s finest composers with the ACO, directed by Richard Tognetti. Bach’s Orchestral Suites propose ...

Relish the melodic invention and dynamic flow of two of the Baroque’s finest composers with the ACO, directed by Richard Tognetti. Bach’s Orchestral Suites propose ...

The Australian World Orchestra will celebrate its 5-year anniversary in 2016 with two electrifying concerts conducted by internationally acclaimed Australian conductors Alexander Briger and Stanley ...

Few pianists are as widely admired as Brazilian Nelson Freire. And his welcome return to Australia after two decades will see him perform a concerto ...

If you've been waiting to hear the Sydney Opera House's Grand Organ in all its power and beauty, this is the concert for you. It ...

Pink Martini is a 15-piece 'little orchestra' from Portland, Oregon with a cool and eclectic sound. Their first song 'Sympathique' became an overnight sensation in ...

Sixty thousand years of Yorta Yorta history. 70 years of dispossession. The summer of 1939 will change the lives of the people of Cummeragunja forever. ...

The 2016 Just For Laughs All-Star Gala will feature a stellar lineup to celebrate the Festival's 6th year anniversary! The Gala has proven to be ...

The undisputed queen of transgressive humour and not-so-subtle subversion, Margaret Cho, returns to Australia this September with an all new standup show, The Psycho Tour. ...

"A comedian who owns the space he is working in so much, he could put a flag up" The Independent No stranger to yap Alan ...

Trevor Noah is best known as the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award -winning program The Daily Show in the US, succeeding the legendary ...

Elliott Gyger's title comes from a scene in The Rite of Spring: 'The Acquisition of the Earth by Dancing.' The idea of acquiring the earth, ...

With the eight most promising ballet students Australia can muster and top jazz dance troupes vying for other awards, this is one of the most ...

The Firebird ballet made the young Stravinsky a celebrity. You can hear the influence of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov (think Scheherazade ) but there are all ...

On the final leg of the Australian Youth Orchestra’s 22nd International Tour, ninety-seven of Australia’s finest young musicians will return from Europe and China, after ...

The Rite of Spring ballet shocked audiences and sparked a riot at its 1913 premiere in Paris. This did more good than harm - it ...

Ross Edwards is one of Australia's preeminent composers, whose distinctive 'dancing-chanting' style brings a spirit of sacred contemplation and hypnotic energy to the concert hall. ...

In 2014, ACO audiences roared their approval of the exhilarating mastery of maverick cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima’s performances across Australia. In 2016 he returns ...

“Talent borrows, genius steals”. That this quote has variously been attributed to Wilde, Picasso, Eliot, Stravinsky, Burroughs and Morrissey is entirely apt, as it reinforces ...

The Art of Fugue was Bach’s last major project and this definitive exploration of the possibilities of counterpoint is perhaps his most ambitious undertaking, transcending ...

Despite over 80 years of combined music-making, Cinemusica marks the first exciting collaboration between Synergy Percussion and the ACO, showcasing the thrilling sonic possibilities of ...

Finnish violinist and long-time friend of the ACO, Pekka Kuusisto, takes up his position as ACO Collective Artistic Director for this season-opening salvo of far-reaching ...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has undergone many reincarnations since it was first played by the talented orphans of the Ospedale della Pietà in 18th-century Venice. Now, ...

Hallelujah: Celebrate the start of the festive season in the traditional way. All performances will be signed in collaboration with Accessible Arts....

Basel Chamber Orchestra make their Australian debut in these special performances that form part of an exchange that sees the ACO reciprocate with concerts in ...

The Senior National Finals is a culmination of a year’s work of perfecting the syllabus of routines and training hard. The girls compete at Olympic ...

One of the things the French do so well is colour and spectacle, and this concert gets off to a brilliant start with Saint-Saëns' most ...

Audra McDonald just won her sixth Tony Award and two Grammys, and we're thrilled to have enticed her to Sydney. Whether it's Rodgers & Hammerstein, ...

The 2015 Festival of Choral Music is an annual showcase of NSW Public School students in a Combined Choir at the Concert Hall of the ...

This Gala will feature Irish powerhouse Tommy Tiernan, Scottish superstar Danny Bhoy, critically acclaimed British stand-up Stephen K Amos and the Pub Landlord himself, Al ...

Strap yourselves in and prepare for lift off; the countdown is on for the long awaited first Australian tour of one of stand-up comedy's biggest ...

This October audiences in Sydney are in for a special treat! For the first time ever on our shores, opera superstar Angela Gheorghiu will be ...

Marking a decade since the release of his earthy electronic masterpiece Dial 'M' for Monkey, Ninja Tune stalwart Simon Green finally makes his Sydney Opera ...

They are, quite simply, the two most iconic albums of rock's golden age - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road - and ...

After a gap year away from our traditional Christmas performances of Messiah, we return to Handel’s masterpiece with a stellar line-up of soloists joining our ...

After years holed up in the Hungarian countryside, Haydn headed off to England where he made a fortune as the most famous composer in the ...

Experience the magnificent sound of the legendary RCO as they perform Tchaikovsky’s epic Fifth Symphony and the suite from Stravinsky’s magical ballet The Firebird. WAGENAAR ...

From Bruch, we hear the “richest and most seductive” of violin concertos with one of the world’s great violinists. From Mahler, it’s a tempestuous but ...

1961 – the Berlin Wall, Cuba, Vietnam. 1961 – Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in an air raid during World War II, is rebuilt. 1961 – music’s ...

Dvo?ák went to New York to help American composers find a distinctive voice of their own. Meanwhile, he felt homesick for his native Bohemia and ...

Peruvian conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya is returning to Sydney and his theme is dance. But not just the tangos of Latin American tradition – Jimmy López ...

Watch young French conductor Lionel Bringuier and the return to Sydney of cellist Gautier Capuçon in a program of music by three great French composers. ...

In 2013 we bring Peter Jackson’s film trilogy to a close with The Return of the King. The first two Lord of the Rings movies ...

Who doesn’t love a Cole Porter tune? I Get a Kick Out of You, Night and Day – songs like this have stood the test ...

The Ring . From the depths of a river to giddying heights. Magic and fire. A special sword. Lust and power, courage and betrayal. One ...

Back by popular demand with the best of British popular and classical music under the very Australian sails of the Sydney Opera House, you can ...

In 2011 Nigel Westlake captured Sydney hearts with his poignant and stirring Missa Solis – music that brought tears to the eyes of musicians as ...

Mozart has been inspiring composers from more than 200 years. And while Mary Finsterer’s new double bass concerto won’t sound like Mozart, it has been ...

The Melbourne Ring Cycle’s star gives an intimate recital demonstrating the musicality, intelligence and dramatic prowess which have made her famous. Bringing an intensity to ...

Composer John Adams’ will mark his first appearance with us as conductor, with his brand new saxophone concerto for American virtuoso Timothy McAllister, plus his ...

Celebrating the swing and charm of legendary performer Cole as well as Benson’s own chart-topping hits, George will be delivering hits from his upcoming album ...

Lisa Gasteen is a star currently commanding the big roles of the operatic stage. In 2013 she makes a long-awaited return to the Sydney Symphony, ...