Sydney / Gulgong Opera House exchange program
If there is one thing all Australians love, it is opera and the best place to do opera is in an Opera House.
2016 marked 50 years since the sacking of Danish architect Jørn Utzon and the successful tendering for the remaining construction of the Sydney Opera House by Gulgong-based builder, Dave Tanker Carports and Garages. To celebrate the occasion, a six-month Opera House Exchange was organised, allowing Australia’s oldest and most famous opera houses to swap places.
Initially concerned about the notoriously bad acoustics within the ‘Seven Sails from Sydney Harbour’, members of the Gulgong Dramatic Society soon realised that their fears were misplaced.
‘The thing is, no one ever actually goes inside, I mean the whole idea of the Sydney Opera House is just to take a sel e on the steps or eat a schnitzel in the Prince of Wales’ beer garden while you glimpse a bit of it over the fence,’ explains Gulgong publican, Chips O’Toole.
Surprisingly, the temporary relocation of Utzon’s Opera House proved remarkably easy as the Danish architect had the foresight to specify it be constructed entirely out of Lego.
If there is one thing all Australians love, it is opera and the best place to do opera is in an Opera House.
2016 marked 50 years since the sacking of Danish architect Jørn Utzon and the successful tendering for the remaining construction of the Sydney Opera House by Gulgong-based builder, Dave Tanker Carports and Garages. To celebrate the occasion, a six-month Opera House Exchange was organised, allowing Australia’s oldest and most famous opera houses to swap places.
Initially concerned about the notoriously bad acoustics within the ‘Seven Sails from Sydney Harbour’, members of the Gulgong Dramatic Society soon realised that their fears were misplaced.
‘The thing is, no one ever actually goes inside, I mean the whole idea of the Sydney Opera House is just to take a sel e on the steps or eat a schnitzel in the Prince of Wales’ beer garden while you glimpse a bit of it over the fence,’ explains Gulgong publican, Chips O’Toole.
Surprisingly, the temporary relocation of Utzon’s Opera House proved remarkably easy as the Danish architect had the foresight to specify it be constructed entirely out of Lego.