Best wishes from all over Australia and the world have poured in to the Sydney Opera House, as the building celebrates its 50th birthday.
Sydney Opera House chief executive Louise Herron has received congratulatory wishes from all over the world, including a letter from King Charles III, ahead of the World Heritage-listed building’s 50th anniversary today.
Sydney Opera House CEO Louise Herron on the steps of the Opera House which celebrates its 50th birthday on Friday.“I extend my heartfelt congratulations to you all for a most memorable and successful celebration,” King Charles III wrote in a letter to Herron, staff and Sydney Opera House volunteers. “We consider it the 66th anniversary, that’s how long the Sydney Opera House has existed in our family,” Jan Utzon said this week.reporter rang their Hellebaek home, just north of Copenhagen, with the news their father had won the international design competition for the Sydney Opera House.
Armenian-born Ginovic, 67, now a theatre manager has worked at Australia’s most famous building since 1972, a year before the official opening.
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