The Sydney Opera House, Australia

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The Sydney Opera House in Sydney, New South Wales , Australia, is one of the most distinctive and famous 20th-century buildings, and one of the most famous performing arts venues in the world. Situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, with parkland to its south and close to the enormous Sydney Harbour Bridge, the building and its surroundings form an iconic Australian image. To some the spherical-sectioned shells remind them of the flotilla of sailboats commonly cruising there. Tourists, most with no interest in opera, throng to the building in their thousands purely to see it. As well as many touring theatre, ballet, and musical productions the Opera House is the home of Opera Australia, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It is administered by the Opera House Trust, under the New South Wales (NSW) Ministry of the Arts. The acoustics in the opera house, particularly in the Opera Theatre, have been criticised as unsatisfactory. There have been constant calls for the space to be renovated, possibly by moving the opera company into the larger and more acoustically suitable Concert Hall and shifting the orchestra to a new venue.

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