Handel's Messiah Live from the Sydney Opera House

The entire heating and cooling system of the Sydney Opera House runs on seawater pumped directly from Sydney Harbour. In 1960 American singer Paul Robeson climbed the scaffolding mid construction and sang to the workers eating lunch. Arnold Schwarzenegger won his final Mr Olympia title inside the Concert Hall in 1980. The shells are not random shapes if you reassembled all of them they would form a perfect sphere. Utzon won the competition in 1957 and received £5000 as his prize. He died in 2008