Sydney’s most famous opera house is known as the Sydney Opera house — they decided not to call it the Copenhagen Opera House because that would have required moving to Denmark.
12 Nov 2023 1:59 pm
Many years ago, someone decided that something Sydney desperately needed was an opera house. The result was, well, the Sydney Opera House, which is a pretty catchy name, especially compare to alternatives such as “that funny shaped building in Sydney”, or “you know, the opera house thingy in Sydney”.
Of course in Sydney, it’s just called the “Opera House”, because how many other opera houses would you expect to find in Sydney, or even want to find, given that it’s likely to house some opera.
You can actually experience opera at the Opera House (Sydney, as well as other Opera Houses, presumably). Not as much as other performing arts such as concerts, ballet, or sight-seeing which is a very popular performing art.
The Opera House (the Sydney one, that is not any other one) is situated at a location known as Bennelong Point, which was named after a local historical character, and not for the time it took to build the Opera House which, as you might say, has bennelong time.