Meriton Festival Village Sydney Festival 2017
André de Ridder at the Sydney Festival Symphony Orchestra in concert 40th anniversary of domain in 2016.
Sydney Festival is a festival of major arts in the largest city, Sydney, which lasts three weeks every January since its creation in 1977. The festival's program features more than 100 events of local and international artists and includes contemporary and classical music of Australia, the dance theater circus and visual arts artist says the festival attracts about 500 000 people in its large-scale free outdoor events and 150 000 events with tickets, and contributes A more than 55 million to the economy of New South Wales 1.
The origins of the Sydney Festival are at Waratah Festival, which was created in 1956 by the Committee of Sydney and took place from late October to early November, coinciding with the flowering of the iconic flower NSW Waratah It was an event important cultural which included a parade, a popular art competitions, beauty competitions, exhibitions, performances and reception of the mayor at the town hall Sydney 2.
Sydney Festival was created by the Sydney Committee, the NSW State Government and the City of Sydney to attract people into the city center during the months of summer vacation in January, in many ways, it is probably better understood as a celebration of Sydney and what the city has to offer at the festival the first years of the program offered all vintage car rallies, face painting and kite petanque, obedience competition dog and Chinese scarf dance 3.
For three weeks, the festival offers more than 330 shows program and 100 events involving 900 artists from 17 countries, 1 diversity program covering dance, theater, music, visual arts, cross media and forums each year could include burlesque circus to New York rap to Russian theater; contemporary dance to family programs in the practice of traditional Aboriginal Arts The festival uses at least 30 sites, the main city theater venues such as Sydney Theater Carriageworks, City Recital Hall and venues at Sydney Opera House and Parramatta and community halls, parks and streets of the city themselves.
Sydney Festival presents a number of large-scale free outdoor events, including concerts long term in the field with each attracting up to 60,000 people, 1 down from the peaks of 80,000 in the citation years earlier required at its peak, it is estimated that the festival attracted Jan. 5 million people 3.
The Festival has a history of first present in Australia and many of the most memorable productions of Australia such as Cloudstreet resulted from the Sydney Festival's commitment to encourage local artists brought a lot of great artists in Sydney for the first time in the world, whose Ariane Mnouchkine and the Sun Flood Drummers Theater, Robert Wilson the Black Rider, Robert Lepage hidden face of the Lune Andersen Project Lipsynch George Piper Dances, Netherlands Dance Theater, James Thiérrée Junebug Symphony Goodbye Umbrella, Philip Glass, Ian McKellen Dance of Death, Batsheva Dance Company, the National Theater of Scotland Black Watch Aalst, Christopher Wheeldon Company, All Tomorrow Parties, Al Green, Katona József Theater, Bon Iver, Grizzly Bear, the National, Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom.
A survey of 1,500 participants during the festival conducted in 2011 revealed that customers live mainly in Greater Sydney 83, with about 11 500 visitors between States and festival events present abroad 1.
Not without controversy, the festival has faced challenges to profitability in its early years and has been a riot at a New Year's concert at Sydney Opera House in 1980, when 68 people were arrested and 150 were taken to hospital; and criticism of artistic credibility festival 3.
The inclusive programming Festival, wide range of free events and pricing policies accessible to ticketed performances means that Sydney Festival is open to all in the program, there is always a group of shows - all about a hour - with 35 tickets tickets for all performances are available on the day for only 25 Tix for A stand aside Nix in Martin Place in the heart of Sydney's business district.
From 2008-2012, a free opening event of the festival was the first night of the Festival, which attracts about 200 000 people in the city center 1.
Sydney Festival Highlights of the program include Schaubuhne Berlin Hamlet Headlong author Six Characters in Search of Peter Sellars Oedipus Rex Symphony of Psalms 43 Rajastani musicians in Manganiyar Seduction Al Green, Fabulous Beast Giselle and Rian John Cale, Grizzly Bear, Grace Jones, Laura Marling, James Thiérrée, Björk, Patrick Watson, Manu Chao, David Byrne, the Herrenhausen fashion opera Semele Walk with costumes by Vivienne Westwood, Sasha Waltz's Dido and Enée Antony; and many other 4.
Sydney Festival has a strong tradition of creating opportunities for Australian artists, with 23 world premieres of new works from Australia through the 2013 and 2014 Festivals.
The free program for Sydney Festival includes concerts in the field or Parramatta, such as open-air concert by the Indian superstar AR Rahman with an audience of 50,000 people in 2010, and the annual Ferrython beloved four ferries Sydney race around Sydney harbor.
Late night venues of the Festival, both the presentation of contemporary music, are the Paradiso festival bar and Village Festival in Hyde Park with the latter hosting the famous Spiegeltent, a traditional dance hall in European wood.
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