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{ Opera House at 40 is Australia's top icon }
Hitting 40 is always cause for celebration, though some humans might not embrace it as much if it is a personal milestone in terms of age. Well this Sun is certainly going to be a G’Day for this major landmark Down Under. Sydney’s celebrated Opera House was declared Australia’s best-known icon ahead of its 40th birthday this weekend, in a report that said it was worth Aus$775 million to the economy every year. The Opera House is more highly esteemed abroad than “national brand Australia itself”, accounting firm Deloitte said in a report prepared to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the building’s opening on Sunday. The Opera House injected AUD$775 mil (RM2,348.9 mil) into the economy every year both directly and by attracting tourists to the country, the report found. Over the next 40 years the site is estimated to be worth AUD$4.6 bil (RM13.94bil) including ticket and retail sales, but also in what the report called “intangible cultural, iconic and national identity value”. ”When we’re talking about brands, the Sydney Opera House is quite simply Australia’s best,” said Deloitte partner David Redhill. ”Forty years ago it was one of the biggest, bravest ideas we’d taken on as a nation. Today, it’s repaid the faith Australia had in it; nothing else in Australia commands the same degree of universal admiration or affection as the Opera House.” Visitors were prepared to pay 22% more for tickets simply because an event was held at the Opera House, a 3,000-person survey of attitudes to the venue by Deloitte found. More than half of the approximately 650 tourists surveyed from China,[url=http://michael-kors-bagsstore.weebly.com/]Michael Kors handbags[/url], the United States, Britain and New Zealand said the Opera House was their main reason for visiting Sydney, with the precinct accounting for 10.6% of the city’s tourism spending. The Opera House attracts an average 1.4 million people to its performances every year, of which there were 1,800 in 2011-12. Of the 2,500 Australian residents polled, 77% believed it made a significant contribution to national culture, Deloitte said. Designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon – relatively unknown when he won the 1956 international design contest – the Opera House took 14 years and AUD$102 mil (RM309.43 mil) to complete, funded by a state lottery. When it was added to the World Heritage list in 2007 Unesco described it as “one of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity, not only in the 20th century but in the history of mankind”. It was one of the most difficult engineering feats ever attempted at the time, with Utzon envisaging a chamber with vaulted ceilings unsupported by pillars or columns. Large celebrations are planned to ring in its 40th birthday this Sunday, with surf lifesavers, Aboriginal dancers, a harbour flotilla and aerial display. The Opera House was formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II on October 20, 1973. – AFP Relaxnews
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