Even better, enjoying breakfast in the green room! All these are off-limits to regular visitors and guests of the show, but you can do all of this at a Sydney Opera House Backstage tour. Imagine walking through the backstage of the Sydney Opera House and watching the performers taking up their spaces for rehearsals, or witnessing the setting up of the theatre stage. You won’t likely come across these interesting tidbits on an internet search, and makes the tour worth the time! Visit areas off-limits to the public They narrate stories of the making of the Opera House and legends and stories of prima donnas, actors and performers. Learn incredible stories of the Opera HouseĮvery great Sydney Opera House Tour review mentions the knowledgeable and enthusiastic guides that lead the tours.
Each of these halls combined together host more than 40 shows a week and 2,000 events a year! A tour will take you through these spaces, where everyone from celebrities to royalty has sat and enjoyed a show. He said an annoucement on the tender would be made "as soon as responses have been properly considered”.The inside of the Sydney Opera House has six performance spaces including the Concert Hall, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Drama Theatre, Playhouse, Studio and the Utzon Room. "It is about the mix: greater diversity, more price points, and dining experiences that are open more often to more of our 8.2 million visitors each year." He said the tender was "an opportunity to ensure our food and beverage offering aligns with our overarching ambition" to make the Opera House more accessible. "We are required to conduct a public tender for our expiring food and beverage contracts in line with NSW Government procurement policy." All of our dining venues are operated under contract, most of which have been in place for more than a decade and expire in the first half of 2014," Watson said. "As we said when we announced the tender, it is not in any way an expression of dissatisfaction with existing operators. Sydney Opera House commercial director David Watson described Guillaume at Bennelong as "a fixture of the Opera House" and thanked Brahimi for "his very significant contribution". He made the place his own and that’s what you have to do, otherwise you are just a tenant.” “At Bennelong, honoured the iconic Opera House site with elegant, rich, lush, bourgeois French cooking, informed by a modern Sydney sensibility. It’s the place from which to show off Sydney,” Durack said. “The Sydney Opera House deserves a great restaurant inside it as well as buzzy bistros and fresh seafood specialists and coffee houses. He said Brahimi “has been one of the key contributors to great Sydney dining for the past 20 years”. Guillaume, in his years there, has honoured everything that the Opera House has stood for and offered us a unique and special experience … It's a shame that you aren't going to be able to have that same experience anymore.” “It's an end of an era for the Opera House. We're going to excel at what we do.”īrahimi declined to say what his next move would be, saying only that he would announce future plans for his team and restaurant “in the coming months”.Ĭhief restaurant reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, Terry Durack, said Brahimi’s departure was “very sad news”.
“It's been 12 great years of my life and I'm looking forward to the next project and in the short term, the next six months of being very busy at Bennelong. The man behind the Merivale restaurant empire, Justin Hemmes, was rumoured to be scoping the site but a spokeswoman for his company has confirmed he did not put in a tender.īrahimi, who also operates bistros in Melbourne and Perth, said the decision to close wasn’t difficult, although it was an emotional time for him and his staff. The restaurant, which was awarded two hats in The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2013, will operate as normal until the end of the year, when the existing lease at the Sydney Opera House ends. Twelve years later, my vision is the same, if not stronger.” “I accept their vision but my vision 12 years ago was to have a fine dining restaurant and to try to be the best at what I do. This clearly involves a very different vision," Brahimi said.
The Opera House Trust is now seeking a bistro style restaurant, cafe and bar. "Our goal was always to run one of the best restaurants in the country, befitting such an iconic venue.
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