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Peter Hall and the Sydney Opera House Lighting

  • May 20, 2019May 20, 2019
  • by Anne Watson

Peter Hall attached much significance to the original lighting, both interior and exterior, of the Opera House. In a document that has recently come to light Hall writes of the ‘highly innovative’ nature of the lighting and that its ‘design matched the originality of the rest of the building’. Hall’s commentary is in response to a 1992 report, ‘Twenty Years at the Opera House’, by former Minister for Public Works, Davis Hughes. The document was given by Hall to Peter Carr-Boyd, a fellow employee at McLachlan Management Consultants in North Sydney in the early 1990s and a current member of OpusSOH. Hall’s notes are reproduced in the following link:

soh lighting_Hall

 

Max Dupain’s photo of ‘Hall’s Balls’ and concealed balustrade lighting, c.1973 (State Library NSW)

Bennelong Restaurant, 1973, Max Dupain (SLNSW)

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