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Sydney Opera House: 40th Birthday
Title:
Sydney Opera House: 40th Birthday
NFSA ID
1329150
Year
2013
Courtesy
Nine Network
Birthday celebrations for the Opera House in 2013 – celebrating 40 years since the opening of this beloved icon.
NSW Governor Professor Marie Bashir calls it 'one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity'. Jimmy Barnes sings 'Happy Birthday'.
Jan Utzon, son of the Opera House's architect Jørn Utzon, pays tribute to his father, who died in 2008.
Reporter Heather Walsh for National Nine News in Perth. Broadcast on 20 October 2013.
Notes by Beth Taylor
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.