The Sydney Opera House is a performing arts center located in Sydney, Australia. It was designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon and took over 15 years to complete after breaking ground in 1957. The building houses several performance venues including a 2,679 seat concert hall and 1,507 seat opera theater. With its distinctive modern expressionist design of precast concrete shells on a monumental podium, the Sydney Opera House is one of the most famous performing arts centers and iconic buildings in the world.

1. Viraj Mahida
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2. • The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts
centre in the Australian city of Sydney.
• It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn
Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting
with his competition-winning design in 1957.
• It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and
one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.

3. • The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong
Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
• As one of the performing arts centres in the world, hosting
over 1,500 performances each year attended by some
1.2 million people.
• It is also one of the most popular visitor attractions in
Australia, with more than seven million people visiting the site
each year, 300,000 of whom take a guided tour.

4. • The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design, with
a series of large precast concrete "shells "each composed of
sections of a sphere of 75.2 metres (246 ft 8.6 in) radius forming
the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium.
• The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.4 acres) of land and is 183 m
(600 ft) long and 120 m (394 ft) wide at its widest point.
• Apart from the tile of the shells and the glass curtain walls of
the foyer spaces, the building's exterior is largely clad with
aggregate panels composed of pink granite.

5. • The Opera House houses the following
performance venues:
• Concert Hall:
• The Concert Hall, with 2,679 seats, is the home of the Sydney
Symphony and used by a large number of other concert
presenters.
• It contains theSydney Opera House Grand Organ, the largest
mechanical tracker action organ in the world, with over
10,000 pipes.

6. • Opera Theatre:
• The Opera Theatre, a proscenium theatre with 1,507 seats, is
the Sydney home of Opera Australia and The Australian Ballet.

7. • Drama Theatre:
• The Drama Theatre, a proscenium theatre with 544 seats, is
used by the Sydney Theatre Company and other dance and
theatrical presenters.

8. • In a proscenium theatre, the audience directly faces the
stage, which is typically raised several feet above front row
audience level, and views the performance through the
proscenium "arch". The space that holds the audience is
called the "house".
• The Playhouse: an end-stage theatre with 398 seats.
• The Studio: a flexible space with a maximum capacity of
400 people, depending on configuration.
• The Utzon Room: a small multi-purpose venue, seating
up to 210.

9. • The Forecourt: a flexible open-air venue with a wide
range of configuration options, including the possibility of
utilising the Monumental Steps as audience seating.
• used for a range of community events and major outdoor
performances. The Forecourt will be closed to visitors and
performances 2011–2014 to construct a new entrance tunnel
to a rebuilt loading dock for the Opera Theatre.
• Other facilities:
• The building also houses a recording studio, cafes, restaurants
and bars and retail outlets. Guided tours are available to the
public, including a frequent tour of the front-of-house
spaces, and a daily backstage tour which takes visitors
backstage to see areas normally reserved for performers and
crew members.

10. • Total capacity of opera house is 5,738
people.