Please take your seats as soon as you arrive. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts.

Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer consistent with COVID-safe rules. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Please remember to maintain physical distancing whilst consuming drinks in our foyers.Īll Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars. Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please note that you will be seated directly alongside other ticketholders. This includes all shows in the Concert Hall, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Studio, Playhouse, Drama Theatre, Utzon Room and Forecourt. Performances are being sold to 100% capacity in line with the NSW Public Health Order. You can even sail right up to the event and book a mooring to watch the show. Raise a glass with friends and grab a snack from an array of pop up bars and eateries on the foreshore before settling in under the stars for an unforgettable night out. It’s the perfect backdrop for Bizet’s gritty tale of fate and freedom. Today, the island is a world-class contemporary arts venue, hosting everything from the Biennale of Sydney to live concert performances. Once a meeting place for the Eora Nation, the site is now dotted with the industrial relics of a century of ship-building and architectural marvels dating back to Sydney’s convict past. Step off the boat and you’re surrounded by layers of history. Your night begins with a ferry ride across the glittering water to the world-heritage listed sanctuary of Cockatoo Island. You’ll hear the flirty Habanera and famous Toreador song amid a spectacle that features fire-twirling, car crashes and fireworks. Revel in the irresistible Spanish tunes, sultry story and dark undercurrent of Carmen.

Carmen tosses her hair, stamps her feet and the whole world falls under her spell.

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