Sydney Opera House

This is the most representative of Australia's building, known as the eighth wonder of the world. The Sydney Opera House, designed by the Danish JoemUtzon, looks like a number of huge shells splayed back, or like a full of white sails.

The Sydney Opera House, which began construction in 1959 and took 14 years to complete, has nearly 1,000 rooms, including four halls: concert hall, opera Hall, drama Hall and theater. It can receive more than 2 million visitors per year, and also attract more than 200,000 tourists to visit.

The Sydney Opera House is located at a convenient corner of the Sydney Harbour, its unique sail shape, coupled with the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the background, and the surrounding scenery, I witnessed, every day thousands of tourists come to see the building.

The Sydney Opera House is mainly composed of two main halls, some small theatres, performance halls and other ancillary facilities. Both halls are located within a larger sail-shaped structure, while the smaller auditorium is located in a pedestal at the bottom.

The original intention was to build the largest hall into an opera house, but later the design was changed, and even the completed opera stage was torn down and rebuilt. There is a large organ in the concert hall, which was built by Ronald Scharp between 1969 and 1979. Claimed to be the largest mechanical wooden link organ in the world, it consists of 10,500 air pipes. Seeing the largest organ in the world, I was amazed and amazed.

Other ancillary facilities include a theatre, cinema and photography studio. Free public performances are often held in front of the entrance steps. The Sydney Opera House occupies an area of 1.84 hectares, is 183 meters long, 118 meters wide and 67 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of a 20-story building. The whole opera house is magnificent, majestic and beautiful.

As tourists, we deliberately choose to view its beauty and witness its detailed details from both near and far angles. From a distance, the opera house looks like a huge white sail raised in the waves, a piece of white sail surrounded by the sea on three sides of the water, like a beautiful flower quietly blooming; From a close perspective, it looks like a huge white shell, quietly accepting the tourists' sighs and praise.

With a capacity of 2,679 spectators, the Concert Hall is the largest of its kind and is used for orchestral, pop, jazz, chamber music, choral, opera and dance performances.

The small concert hall has 1,547 seats, and ballet, opera and dance performances are usually presented here. There is also a large public restaurant called Benilang, which can accommodate more than 6,000 people every night.

Legend has it that the first performance here was when black singer PAUL ROBESON climbed the scaffolding that was still under construction and sang his own song for the builders. The official first performance was grand and grand, and Queen Elizabeth II was invited to the scene of the opening ceremony.

Today, the Sydney Opera House hosts about 3,000 performances a year and attracts around two million visitors, making it one of the largest performing arts centres in the world. I am honored to have the opportunity to visit here and carefully observe!

Opening hours: 9:00 ~ 17:00 (except Christmas Day); Admission is AUD 32 for adults, AUD 23 for specials, AUD 74 for families (2 adults, 1 child); Admission to the show is of course extra. Although the price is not cheap, but all tourists to this, no bag to enter, because it is worth it!