Sydney Festival Program
The Festival's inclusive programming, broad range of free events and accessible pricing policies for the ticketed shows means that Sydney Festival is open to all. Within the program there is always a group of shows - all about an hour long - with $35 tickets. Tickets to all performances are available on the day for only $25 at the Tix for Next to Nix booth in Martin Place in the heart of Sydney's CBD.
From 2008-2012, the Festival's free opening event was Festival First Night, attracting approximately 200,000 people into the city centre.
Sydney Festival program highlights include Schaubuhne Berlin's Hamlet, Headlong's Six Characters in Search of an Author, Peter Sellars' Oedipus Rex & Symphony of Psalms, 43 Rajastani musicians in The Manganiyar Seduction, Al Green, Shaun Parker's Happy As Larry, Fabulous Beast's Giselle, Circus Oz' Barely Contained, Red Leap Theatre's The Arrival, John Cale, Grizzly Bear, Grace Jones, Laura Marling, Björk, Patrick Watson, Manu Chao and many more.
The free program for Sydney Festival includes concerts in The Domain or Parramatta, such as the outdoor concert by Indian superstar AR Rahman (with an audience of 50,000 people) in 2010, and the much-loved annual AAMI Ferrython on with four Sydney ferries racing around Sydney Harbour.
The Festival's late night venues, both presenting contemporary music, are the Festival Bar and Festival Garden with the latter hosting The Famous Speigeltent.
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