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Sydney Opera Presents Emily Loves To Bounce

From the company that produced the sell-out season of Mr McGee and the Biting Flee comes Emily Loves to Bounce. Based on the illustrated books of Stephen Michael King, Patch Theatre Company has once again created a marvelous, visual and aural world exploring some of the thoughts and feelings common to four to eight year olds in The Playhouse from 17 April to 2 May.

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Sydney Opera Presents Yummy In My Tummy

Join Big G on his search for the best food in the land, from 27 March to 1 April at 10am, 11am & 12noon, something yummy just like his grandma use to make. Ice cream, guacamole, minestrone soup? What is that special smell and taste that will fill Big G's hungry tummy?

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Sydney Opera Presents Gyan And Leunig

In 2003, Aria Award winning singer/songwriter Gyan sent a 'love letter' of sorts to celebrated cartoonist Michael Leunig - a CD of songs inspired by his poems. The result was the exquisite Billy the Rabbit album and book. Now they are bringing their collaboration to the stage of Sydney Opera House for a strictly limited season of 4 shows.

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10 Days An Earth Created By Ronnie Burkett

Sydney Opera House is delighted to present the internationally acclaimed Canadian theatre artist Ronnie Burkett and his extraordinary Theatre of Marionettes. For the first time, Sydneysiders will be able to experience the nimble artistry and fantasy making of this genius from 15 February - 3 March in the Playhouse.

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Sydney Opera House Votes Australia Day

As Australians all unite to celebrate their heritage on Australia Day, it's time to remember a much-loved Australian icon and it's bid to become one of the New Wonders of the World, Sydney Opera House. In voting updates recently released by the New 7 Wonders Foundation, Sydney Opera House is sitting in the bottom seven of the 21 finalists - and it's time to turn that upside down!

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Celebrating The Genesis Of Opera House For Sydney

This month, Sydney Opera House celebrates 50 years since Jørn Utzon won the international competition to build an Opera House for Sydney. Early in 1957, Jørn Utzon's vision of shimmering white shells rising from a solid podium was presented as a revolutionary design for an opera house for Sydney. In selecting his design, the judging panel forever changed the way the world saw Sydney and Australia.

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Babies Proms Orchestra On Tour

Country Energy Proms on Tour will bring Sydney Opera House's own Proms Orchestra into the backyards of children across northwest and central western New South Wales, taking in Bathurst, Mudgee, Coonabarabran, Gilgandra, Dubbo and Parkes.

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Kaidan - A Ghost Story at Sydney Opera

From 17 - 27 January 2007, Sydney Opera House together with Sydney Festival present the visionary new dance work, Kaidan, by the internationally acclaimed Australian director, choreographer and designer, Meryl Tankard.

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Paradise City Staged at Sydney Opera House

A breathtaking display of skill from a line-up of world class performers, Paradise City is an eye-popping fusion of street-style, dance and physical performance. Set in a stark urban space that is littered with road barriers, a plush red velvet curtain and a quarter pipe skateboard ramp Paradise City is a landscape shaped by the people that inhabit it.

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Kronos Quartet And Asha Bhosle - India Calling

This extraordinary collaboration between the ubiquitous San Francisco based string quartet, Kronos Quartet and the Queen of Bollywood film, Asha Bhosle, performs for one night only in the Concert Hall on Friday 9th March 2007.

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John Coburn's Curtain Of The Sun And Curtain Of The Moon

One of Australia's best known artists, John Coburn, died on November 7, aged 81. In tribute to Coburn, Sydney Opera House will display the two monumental works for which he is perhaps most remembered - the Curtain of the Sun and the Curtain of the Moon, in the two venues for which they were created.

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