Sydney Opera House

The Australian city, Sydney holds one of the most famous buildings in the world named Sydney Opera House which consists of multiple venues inside it and is used for holding all kinds of performing arts events. Like the construction of the Vienna State Opera, the architect for the Sydney Opera House was also decided by holding a competition. The architect who won the competition was Jorn Utzon a Danish architect. The design was finalized in 1957 but it took quite a long time for the construction to be finally complete which was by the year 1973. The architect Utzon was awarded one of the most prestigious and highest awards in the field of architecture, which is the award of Pritzker in the year 2003.

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On the 28th of June 2007, UNESCO awarded the Sydney Opera House the title of being a World Heritage Site and called it as the most distinctive and most famous building for performing arts in the whole world of the 20th century. Today the Sydney Opera House has become the most busy performing arts center in the whole world. Each year it hosts up to 1,500 events in its venues and has around 1.2 million people visiting it each year. They Sydney Opera House has become more of a tourist spot and attracts seven million people each year who come to visit it out of which almost 30,000 even take a guided tour inside it. The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Sydney Theatre Company, and Opera Australia are those four performing arts companies to which the Sydney Opera House provides its venues to.