Vivid Sydney

Just one more post for my marathon blogging day...

This fortnight is the Vivid festival of music, light and ideas.

I haven't seen too much of it yet, but hope to next week when feeling better.

The most obvious thing is how they're lighting up the Circular Quay and the Rocks areas. The pedestrian path over the harbour bridge was packed with everyone taking photos of the Opera House on Tuesday evening as I was running home. Didn't have my camera, but the official Vivid shot is below. looks like they have tie-dyed the Opera House!
The Museum of Contemporary Art is looking pretty funky too.
Think I remember ta similar thing on Buckingham Palace once?

Ballet at the Opera House

On their last day in Sydney Marilyn and I went to see an australian ballet production at the Opera House, well extracts from 3 Russian ballets - Firebird, Petrouchka and Les Sylphides. It was amazing to see inside the Opera House and it was great for me to see 3 extracts as I haven't seen many before.

Firebird was my favourite as it has such unusual costumes.Les Sylphides was just beautiful to watch though and what I imagine of more classical ballet.Petrouchka was more of a funny story about magical puppets in a russian village which was really a bit freaky!