Sydney Opera House at night

Описание: The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Located on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour, it is widely regarded as one of the world's most famous and distinctive buildings, and a masterpiece of 20th-century architecture.[3][4]
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Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon and completed by an Australian architectural team headed by Peter Hall, the building was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973,[5] 16 years after Utzon's 1957 selection as winner of an international design competition. The Government of New South Wales, led by the premier, Joseph Cahill, authorised work to begin in 1958 with Utzon directing construction. The government's decision to build Utzon's design is often overshadowed by circumstances that followed, including cost and scheduling overruns as well as the architect's ultimate resignation.[6]
The building and its surrounds occupy the whole of Bennelong Point on Sydney Harbour, between Sydney Cove and Farm Cove, adjacent to the Sydney central business district and the Royal Botanic Garden, and near to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
The building comprises multiple performance venues, which together host over 1,800 performances annually, attended by more than 1.4 million people.[7]Performances are presented by numerous performing artists, with many resident companies such as Opera Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. As one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, the site is visited by more than ten million people annually,[7] and approximately 350,000 visitors take a guided tour of the building each year.[8]The building is managed by the Sydney Opera House Trust, an agency of the New South Wales State Government.
In 2007, the Sydney Opera House became a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site,[9] having been listed on the (now defunct) Register of the National Estatesince 1980, the National Trust of Australia register since 1983, the City of Sydney Heritage Inventory since 2000, the New South Wales State Heritage Register since 2003, and the Australian National Heritage Listsince 2005.[10][11] The Opera House was also a finalist in the New 7 Wonders of the Worldcampaign list.[12][13]

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