Canadian Reacts to 'Play It Safe' Sydney Opera House Tribute

Here is my reaction and commentary to Play It Safe | Sydney Opera House 50th Anniversary

[daniellesnelleman]

Love your reaction to our culture. 🇦🇺 🐨

[jenniferharrison]

Tim Minchin is really extraordinary, noboby else could have written and performed this beautiful celebration! He is a genius and you really understood his message! 🙋🌅

[Danger_Mouse_]

The Sydney Opera House is just one of those magnificent buildings but also art all put into one. Its location sets it off beautifully and is in harmony with the harbour.
We are just so lucky it was designed and built right here in Sydney.

[music]

What a perfect person to choose as composer and performer to deliver this tribute. Tim definitely has always pushed limits throughout his career. Yes when everyone tells you it is wrong, a waste of money, too out there, oh yeah, tell that to NSW's and Australia's tourist bottom line, let alone the quality of our performers who have been inspired by this iconic, goosebumps producing, architectural masterpiece. Thank you Jorn Utzon and the visionary pollies and backers who simply said, way back then, stuff it, let's do it anyway

[andrewbayada]

Jorn Utzon, the architect who designed the Opera house, got his idea for it's design from eating an orange. If you take each part of the Opera house and rearranged them, it would make a perfect sphere. At the start of the video, what you see is an orange peel. Not lemon. That was the hint. But yes, many thought it was a real lemon. But, it has been proven over the years, it has become an architectural icon. So many detractors, who were all proven wrong. Even one of our greatest Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke, didn't like it. He was the one who said that no one cared about the arts. What else would a beer swilling, working class bloke like him could be expected to say?

[Tully__]

I will honestly & openly admit every time i go to Circular Quay & see our most beautiful harbour in the world i cry & i live only an hour & a half north of Sydney so I've seen it hundreds of times in my life but seeing it by video is not the same as seeing it in real life. Also I've actually performed at the Opera House myself a few times in my younger years dancing....the best moments of my life & i was also teaching at the same time & had my young dancers also perform & place nationally at national levels in dancing as that's where our national dancing competitions are held

[coreenavenn]

Sydney Opera house is genius. The Danish architect was rubbished. Now we cannot imagine not having this incredible art work on which other art is now projected

[artistjoh]

It all started because the world's most famous opera singer of her day, Dame Joan Sutherland could not perform in her own home town of Sydney, because Sydney had no opera house. Despite years of controversy, the result is worth it. I have attended many shows in various of its perfoirmance venues, and it is always a wonderful experience, as is large outdoor concerts on the Opera House forecourt, and steps., and there have been many wines enjoyed at the Opera Bar. Even a wonderful meal at the restaurant. It is unthinkable for there to be no Sydney Opera House.

[grahamejohn]

I had to watch this 4 times when it came out to just get all the hidden meanings Tim is definitely a genius and a master of the tongue in cheek.

[chrismulconray]

Loved your commentary about humans and what we can do...

[goatslunch]

There are hundreds of Opera Houses around the world but there is only 1 Opera House.

[GaryNoone-jzmq]

Dame Joan Sutherland actually gave her last performance in the Sydney Opera House 😊

[peterdubois]

Tim is bloody brilliant! He just finished his north America tour in Canada a few days ago

[debkendall]

composed by Tim Minchin as an ironic salute to the bold, visionary experiment that became the Opera House. It has a lot of symbolism in the video.

[mals]

Just wonderful and sentiment from a truly amazing artist we're lucky to call an Aussie.

[DavidPola]

When i was a kid in the '60s and early 70's my grandparents would always buy the Opera House lottery tickets they were very popular back then, at 12 i saw the Queen open it in October 1973, there was a huge crowd boats everywhere we got the old Red Rattler to Circular Quay

[sampatterson]

What most of the people who watch this miss is the transition from the beige/tan colour scheme (particularly in the costumes) and how as the song becomes more rebellious, the colour comes out. At first you just get flashes of colour. Then, when the people cross in fron t of Tim at the twin staircases, his outfit goes from bland to the red track suit. From there on out, the tempo and rebellion just keeps building.

[goldenchild]

Was a time when the easiest way to tell the difference between a Canadian and an American was to listen to what they said (not the accent). Canadians would typically say something like, 'Is the pub at the southern end of Bondi still there? I worked there for six months in 2008'. An American might typically say something like, 'I'm planning a trip down under in 18 months'. [I'm gunna]. Be a Canadian, even if you're an American!

[Mirrorgirl]

I was already 'feeling' it, but when I saw William Barton atop the main sail, playing his Didge, I lost it. Tim Minchin will always deliver.

[Flash-srhm]

If you liked this, you must look up "the ship song" by nick cave, which was adapted to celebrate our beautiful opera house around 13-ish years ago.