Sydney Festival
What? For three weeks each January the Festival offers a rich program of around 80 events involving upwards of 500 artists from Australia and abroad covering dance, theatre, music, visual arts, cross 
media and forums. In any given year, it makes use of most of the main theatres across the city including Sydney Theatre, CarriageWorks, City Recital Hall and venues at the Sydney Opera House.
Sydney Festival also presents a number of quality, free outdoor events such as the long-running Festival in the Domain with Jazz and Symphony concerts, each attracting up to 100 000 people.
Festival First Night, sees the city streets transformed into a series of free stages and precincts. The openers for the free festival in hte Domain on January 7th in 2012 are Gurrumul Yunupingu, followed by Washington and rounding off the night is international musical globetrotter, Manu Chao, in his first Australian performance (Yunupingu, Washington & Manu Chao To Open Free Sydney Festival First Night)
Sydney Festival attracts a total audience of approximately 1 million people across all of its events, making it the most attended cultural event in Australia.
Where? Sydney, NSW When? January each year
Who & What? 2012 Programme.
How much are the tickets? Various Festival Website? Sydney Festival
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Sydney Festival 2012 News
Yunupingu, Washington & Manu Chao To Open Free Sydney Festival First Night08-Dec-2011
Sydney Festival (/sydneyfestival.html) has announced a strong line-up for The Domain Stage for F..
Ira Glass Gets Second Sydney Show - Snow Cancellation Unlikely!15-Nov-2011
Sydney Festival has announced an extra performance of Reinventing Radio. An Evening with Ira Glass. ..
Hume Delivers As Sydney Festival Hides Light Behind Poor TV Ad 02-Nov-2011
Festival Director Lindy Hume (left) has revealed the program for Sydney Festival 2012, replete w..
Sydney Festival Parramatta 201231-Oct-2011
Sydney Festival has announced the line-up for the new 10 day festival, Sydney Festival Parramatt..
Keystone Group to Sponsor Festival Bar at Hyde Park Barracks For Sydney 201221-Oct-2011
Sydney Festival continues to attract strong sponsorship for one of the nation's leading events...
Obarzanek's Swansong Assembly and Meow Meow in Little Match Girl Both on Sydney Festival Programme10-Oct-2011
Choreographer Gideon Obarzanek’s swansong for Chunky Move, Assembly; and international cab..
Sydney Festival PJ Harvey Limited Tickets on Sale 17th October10-Oct-2011
Limited pre-sale tickets will go on sale on October 17 for multi-award winning artist PJ ..
Sydney Festival Scopes the Prize for Best Cultural Arts or Music Event 10-Oct-2011
Sydney Festival has won the prize for Best Cultural Arts or Music Event at the 2011 Australian E..
Sydney Festival: Balnaves Foundation to 'I Am Eora'10-Oct-2011
Sydney Festival has announced announced that The Balnaves Foundation is making a donation of $150K ..
Sydney 'World's Best Festival and Event City - For the Second Time10-Oct-2011
Sydney has been adjudged as the ‘world’s best festival and eve..
Past Events? The Festival has a history of presenting Australian premieres and many of Australia's most memorable productions such as Cloudstreet have resulted from Sydney Festival's commitment to nurture local artists. It has brought many of the world's great artists to Sydney for the first time including: Ariane Mnouchkine and Thèâtre du Soleil (Flood Drummers), Robert Wilson (The Black Rider), Robert Lepage (Far Side of the Moon and The Andersen Project), George Piper Dances, Netherlands Dance Theatre, James Thiérrée, Philip Glass, Ian McKellen (Dance of Death), the Batsheva Dance Company and the National Theatre of Scotland (Black Watch and Aalst).
