SYDNEY: Australians on Friday celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House, lighting up the sails of a harbourside “masterpiece” that has become an international icon.
Fifty years to the day since Queen Elizabeth II opened the world’s most recognised concert hall — visited by about 11 million people a year – the Opera House will draw crowds with a nighttime laser show.Besides the party, the Opera House has been hosting events recalling its complex history.
But in 1966, Utzon quit the building – with its shells nearly finished – and left Australia over disagreements with a state public works minister about his vision, budget and the financing.Other architects finished the work, making drastic changes to his plans for the interior.He died in Copenhagen in 2008, a year after the Opera House had been listed as a world heritage site by Unesco, which praised it as a “masterpiece of 20th century architecture”.
His architect son Jan had to stop, near tears, as he described how one woman wrote a letter to his father about how she had taken a ferry across Sydney Harbour with the intention of taking her life.“She saw the image of the Opera House and decided if somebody could overcome all those difficulties and build something so magic and so uplifting, who is she to take her own life? And so she didn’t,” she said.
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