It is also an idea that fundamentally endured unchanged from Utzon’s first winning sketches through to the finished building. Utzon successfully reached back thousands of years to express this same majestic idea in the modern world – an imperishable idea that provides a strong physical and intellectual grounding for the Sydney Opera House.
Its long procession of shallow steps leads up to a plateau upon which people commune with art under a sculptural canopy, elevated and transported away from their everyday lives. Wheelchair/Accessible Seating: For all enquiries please contact the Box Office on (02) 9318 8200. This idea is elementally expressed in the podium of the Sydney Opera House. He would go on to use this ancient form as a foundation from which to elevate both the Sydney Opera House and its millions of visitors above everyday life. (AAP: Bianca De Marchi) The renovation includes new acoustic reflectors and an enhanced sound. He saw how these temples lifted people above their daily lives to a transcendent plateau where, beneath the clouds and sky, they could commune with their gods. The Opera House concert hall reopens next week after being under renovation for more than two years. Hansori Music returns with our 7th and annual end of year concert, FANTASY II held at the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House. In 1949 on a visit to Mexico, Utzon would climb out of the dark and confining Yucatan jungle on to the top of a Mayan temple to discover an infinitely open plane above the jungle canopy. Implicit in the structure of the Podium is an understanding of the beauty, strength and permanence of ideas architect Jørn Utzon brought to bear in designing the Sydney Opera House.
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