Message in the Bottle 1973-2023: Sydney Opera House: Celebrating 50 years Tomorrow

“This opera house, a flight of fancy forged in the fire of almost impossible political and cultural odds, changed everything”

~MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Makes Australian Debut at the Sydney Opera House in October

My father-in-law found a bottle of Moët champagne 🥂 🍾 dated 1973 in his cellar … amazing timing as tomorrow the Sydney Opera House reaches 50 years

Celebrating 50 years

Sydney Opera House: Fifty years in 50 pictures

From its fascinating construction to its legendary guests, the Opera House has spent half a century defining Sydney's skyline. In 1974 my father in law and his family fell in love with the Sydney Opera House. The House was 7 years young when my 22 years old bohemian eyes first spied those amazing Antipodean lemon/orange peel shaped roofs.

One wonders if Moët was Utzon’s preferred poison …

G.H. MUMM was unlikely on Utzon’s lips in 1973

The Poisoned Chalice: Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House

You can now buy the ‘holy grail’ of the whisky world – for £1.2m Macallan Adami 1926 is believed to be world’s ‘most sought-after’ bottle of Scotch

Sydney Opera House | Birthday Festival 

“When architecture really works, we build a world that’s a little bit more exciting, interactive, engaging, and inclusive than the world we live in today.”

~Architect Bjarke Ingels - “I found there was this habit of looking at architecture from within a bubble”