Just dropped: Live at Sydney Opera House Stream All About Women 2024, Caroline Polachek, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and more
The latest collection of free concert films, performances, and talks has just dropped on Stream, our platform that brings the magic of our stages to the comfort of your home.
Turn your Sunday evening into a concerto, transform your living room into a theatre, or let a captivating talk draw you deeper into some of the world's greatest minds.
Our new collection features All About Women 2024, Caroline Polachek, Generations and Dynasties, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Ella Mai, Polar Bear and Penguin, Lonnie Holley & Irreversible Entanglements, Lighting of the Sails and Teeny Tiny Stevies in Big Spaces.
All About Women 2024
Eight Talks Free to View
Talks and Ideas
An annual festival exploring big ideas around gender, justice and equality
All About Women is our annual centrepiece talks festival. For more than a decade, the celebrated event has filled our venues with inspiring moments and buzzy, agenda-setting conversations. This year’s event featured many thought-provoking events featuring international and Australian artists, thinkers and storytellers. Our streaming program highlights include a talk with R. F. Kuang, author of Yellowface, history expert Mary Beard and the inaugural Feminist Roast featuring Jane Caro, Zoe Coombs Marr, Jan Fran, Michelle Law, Nakkiah Lui and Steph Tisdell.
Caroline Polachek
Live at Sydney Opera House
Contemporary Music
The Queen of experimental pop
Caroline Polachek is a singularity in the music world and a queen of experimental pop, and we were thrilled to record her first-ever Sydney headline performance in the Concert Hall last year. She captivated the audience with an unforgettable performance featuring hits from her latest album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You plus beloved tracks from her previous album Pang.
Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Simone Young conducts Gurrelieder
Classical Music
A classical performance for the ages
In March 2024, Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was transformed into a musical tapestry of monumental scale, featuring an orchestra of 140 musicians and a chorus of 285. This unmissable experience was captured in the renewed Concert Hall to celebrate Schoenberg's 150th birthday, marking the piece as one of the composer's most romantic works.
Chief Conductor Simone Young lead the Sydney Symphony in this extraordinary work for the first time in the Orchestra's history. The event also featured an all-star cast, including celebrated tenor Simon O'Neill and the remarkable German soprano Ricarda Merbeth, who made her long-awaited return to Sydney.
Generations and Dynasties
The Jarrett Family and the Briscoe Sisters
Music & Ideas
A musical family affair
Generations and Dynasties explores the rich tapestry of storytelling in First Nations culture, passed down from parents to children and among siblings. Like the symbolic passing of the story stick, each event reflects the importance of family, community, and culture.
Two events are available to stream, each spotlighting a different family. The Jarret Family features Wire MC, Tasman Keith & Kapital J and their unique spin on hip-hop, and The Briscoe Sisters features Deline, Naurita and Merindi with their daughters joining them on stage.
Watch Generations and Dynasties: The Jarrett Family - Wire MC, Tasman Keith & Kapital J
Ella Mai
Live at Sydney Opera House
Contemporary Music
Grammy award-winning R&B singer-songwriter lights up Vivid LIVE
Elevating us with her distinctive old-school R&B style, the British singer-songwriter made her highly anticipated return to the Opera House during Vivid LIVE 2023.
A fresh young talent with old-school soul, London-born singer-songwriter Ella Mai took the pop world by surprise in 2018 with her multi-platinum hit, Boo’d Up. earning her a Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (and a nod for the prestigious Song of the Year). Witness her triumphant return as she performs music from her second album, Heart on My Sleeve, under the dazzling lights of the Concert Hall.
Polar Bear and Penguin Kids Theatre
Humour, an unlikely friendship and lots of fish
Entertain your kids with this fun North Pole adventure followingan unlikely encounter between a Polar Bear and a Penguin. After meeting for the first time, the pair get to know one another and learn to survive in a world that is melting beneath their feet...paws...flippers. Paul Curley (THE DIG and Bake!) and John Currivan (The Bockety World of Henry & Bucket) bring this quirky and relevant play for young audiences to life.
Lonnie Holley & Irreversible Entanglements
Contemporary Music
Visionary free jazz, hip-hop and transcendent vision
American sculptor and experimental musician, Lonnie Holley and free jazz collective Irreversible Entanglements took over the Utzon Room in February 2024 for an evening of genre-defying sound. Watch tthe artists create a musical and poetic landscape of Afrofuturist free jazz and experimental noise that will leave you shaken, liberated and uplifted.
Lighting of the Sails 2024: Echo by Julia Gutman and Pleasant Company, soundtrack by Angus Mills
Contemporary Art
Fantastic and impossible imagery projected onto Sydney Harbour
As part of Vivid LIVE 2024, humble textiles were transformed into an animated epic and projected onto the sails. Australian artist and Archibald Prize winner Julia Gutman collaborated with animation technologists, Pleasant Company to bring the artwork to life. A soundtrack by Angus Mills deepens your immersion in the emotional story of the work.
Teeny Tiny Stevies in Big Spaces
Live at Sydney Opera House
Kids Music Fun
Have your little ones sing along
Watch the much-loved children’s band Teeny Tiny Stevies perform I Ate a Rainbow, Boy or Girl Colour and Boss of My Own Body, plus a selection of favourite songs from their brand new album. Featuring irresistible melodies and helpful tips for navigating life’s little challenges, sisters Byll and Beth perform music that keeps kids entertained without driving parents crazy.