From Arnold Schwarzenegger's contentious triumph at the concert hall in 1980 to the lesser-known secrets of its architectural design, here are some fascinating facts about the Sydney Opera House ...

1) Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong Point. Bennelong Point was named after Woollarawarre Bennelong, a senior Eora man at the time of the arrival of British colonisers in Australia in 1788.

The white sails of the Sydney Opera House in Australia seemed like “an obvious canvas for an important message”, recalled David Burgess, even if scaling the building with a tin of red paint ...

The Sydney Opera House hosts around 1,800 shows a year and was always meant to be a living, breathing performance space and not just an architectural monument. It’s the home of Opera Australia ...

With close to 11 million visitors to the Sydney Opera House each year, odds are you've also ventured inside its famous sails. However, the general public has rarely been invited behind the scenes ...

Sydney Opera House is ranked #2 out of 20 things to do in Sydney. See pictures and our review of Sydney Opera House.

The Sydney Opera House is being slammed for its muted effort at lighting up the building to honour the civilians massacred in Israel by Palestinian terrorists, compared to how it was done in ...