Sydney Festival 2024

5 – 28 January 2024

Find your Sydney side

Enjoy a summer of art with over 130 free and ticketed events, world class offerings indoor, outdoor and online.

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Our Sydney Festival highlights

With opera, dance, performance art, music (and giant seagulls!) plan your festival from 5 to 28 January

Free events

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Darling Harbour

Theatre, dance & film

Swing! Circus at Darling Harbour

Trapeze talent sky high

The Neilson

Children & family

Telly Tuita: The Tā and Vā of Tongpop

Time and space explored in a Thirsty Mile artist takeover

Dawes Point

Theatre, dance & film

The Thirsty Mile

Sydney Festival’s summer centrepiece is back for 2025.

Barangaroo Reserve

Community & causes

Vigil: Gunyah

A gathering space for talks, workshops and performances

The Rocks

Exhibitions

What We Leave Behind

Weaving together our hopes for the future

Live music

Sydney sounds

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City Recital Hall

Music

Yaya Bey

The R&B sensation makes her Australian debut

Sydney Theatre Company

Theatre, dance & film

Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera

A tale of fame, fortune and danger

From circus and cabaret to comedy and choirs

Theatre, dance and live performance

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Darlinghurst

Theatre, dance & film

A Model Murder

The true crime story of Shirley Beiger

Roslyn Packer Theatre

Theatre, dance & film

Antigone in the Amazon

A political Greek tragedy for the 21st century

Darling Harbour

Theatre, dance & film

Swing! Circus at Darling Harbour

Trapeze talent sky high

Dawes Point

Theatre, dance & film

The Thirsty Mile

Sydney Festival’s summer centrepiece is back for 2025.

Sydney Theatre Company

Theatre, dance & film

Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera

A tale of fame, fortune and danger

Roslyn Packer Theatre

Theatre, dance & film

The Chronicles

Sublime, explosive dance from Stephanie Lake

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