Fascinating look back in time! Thanks for posting

@aseo6904

9 ай бұрын

Hi Jared! I watched your video on the opera house and it was really well done.

An extremely valuable record and great camera work. People need to be reminded that the preferred design competition winner for the Sydney Opera House was an incredibly dull box, fortunately rejected by invited competition panel architect Eero Saarinen who arrived late and plucked Jorn Utzon's entry from the rejects. Eugene Goossens was a London-born composer and conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during his time in Sydney from 1947 to 1956. He lobbied the State Government for a performance centre on Bennelong Point, then a tram depot (!). State Premier Joseph Cahill's drive (he wanted the site to be near Wynyard), Saarinen's judgement, and Utzon's 1957 genius vision helped this little backwater of Sydney grow into an international city. For one thing, many people are inspired to travel to Sydney to see it, and many decide to come back and stay, and Sydney is much richer for this. Those glaziers risked life and limb, sliding off the tops of ladders at steep inclines on slippery glass!!! Inflation aside, current (and justified) safety practices would triple it's price if it were built today. Some don't know how fortunate Sydney was to get this landmark.

I worked in the Drama Theater in 1973, as a stagehand, on Threepenny Opera, and other areas. The stage revolve could not be used in the Opera Hall as it took six musicians round when it worked. The Opera Company had to build a revolve on the stage. The curtain of the Sun & Moon, in Opera & Drama Theaters, were not used, the fire curtain was used.

wow - amazing film

Fascinating. Hopefully I'll get to visit. I've always been fascinated by its shape.

It caused much controversy during construction phase over it's complexity at the time to build it hence why it took 15 years a credit to Jorn Utzon's as now is considered a national landmark

We heard about the Opera House in Ireland before I departed in March 1971. Pictured in local papers. Nobody was sure about this strange structure. It was there when I landed by ship in 1971 but still congroversal so I could not comment then about it. It certainly had a prime position. The cost seems to be the most crucial issue of contention. It is indeed a world wonder now and delighting visitors from all over the globe. It is also useful. I have not been inside it but my brother and family have and gave a report.

Not a Hi-vis jacket in site..oh the good ole days....

What I find incredible about the Sydney Opera House is why it took so long between start of construction and completion. From what I've read it started construction clear back in 1959 and finally completed in 1973.

@NFSAFilms

10 жыл бұрын

This was a government run project ;)

@jasoncarpp7742

10 жыл бұрын

Govt. run project. The Australian govt. hires Jorn Utzon to design and build the Sydney Opera House, but they refuse to pay the money to build the thing. Were they expecting him to do the job for free?

@truerosie

8 жыл бұрын

+Jason Carpp While it's true it was a government-run project, it's also true that Utzon 's original plans were so incomplete he did not expect to even be considered, let alone to win. Shows the power of great vision that he did. The problems included that he did not know how to build the shells so that they would stay up; more than one process required a lot of research, then prototype building, then custom manufacturing onsite. All v time consuming and money consuming. They started it before the processes were clear because there was so much controversy over the expense, the amazing design, and the general disinterest in opera at that time in Australia, that it was felt that if they didn't start it at once it would never be built. So it was started before it was known how to actually do it. It's such a beautiful thing today I for one am glad they forged ahead, rather than leave it as another good idea that gathered dust.

@jasoncarpp7742

8 жыл бұрын

+truerosie I agree. I'm afraid I've never visited Sydney, much less anywhere else in Australia. Like many people I have seen pictures of the Sydney Opera House.

@jasoncarpp7742

8 жыл бұрын

+truerosie Considering Australia's general disinterest in opera at the time, I doubt that it should've been called the Sydney "Opera House". I would've thought that the Sydney Concert Hall would've been more appropriate.

Government run,hence the HUGE over budget costs, but being fair, a building like it had never been done before,and it was late 60's. Now a world wide structure,me and the mates delivered, all of the concrete to it ,most coming from the Alexandria plant,where I drove,just sayin'

@NFSAFilms

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Pete, thanks for sharing your memories about this landmark building.

@thomaselliott573

5 жыл бұрын

,just sayin'

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