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1981
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David Block succeeds Sir
Robert Norman as Chairman of the Trust
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1983
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The Sydney Opera House
annual report 1983 acknowledges two significant gifts in the financial
year 1982/83 - Sir Eugene Goossens’ bust, a bronze sculpture by
Peter Latona, commissioned by Sydney Symphony Orchestra 6.30 Committee
for permanent exhibition in the Southern Foyer of the Concert Hall. and
a porcelain bowl by Lin Utzon, exhibited at the Sydney Opera House,
subsequently bought by an unknown aficionado and delivered as a gift to
the Sydney Opera House.
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Jun
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Peter Myers and the Royal Australian Institute of
Architects present an exhibition of Utzon’s designs for the Opera
House forecourt and pedestrian and vehicular approaches (the Blue
Book) in the Exhibition Hall.
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Oct
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Premier Neville Wran publicly invites Utzon to rebuild the SOH interiors on Channel 9’s Sunday
program.
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1984
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Music Room becomes the
Playhouse for use primarily as a theatre. Seating capacity is
reduced to 398 with a stage 12 metres wide, 5 metres deep and a
proscenium height of 5.5 metres.
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1986
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Jørn Utzon rejects Trust invitation to
participate in Sydney Opera House oral history project. However, he
releases restrictions on his papers in the State Library of NSW. The Sydney Opera House Oral History Project, developed and
managed by the Dennis Wolanski Library and funded by the Ladies
Committee of the Sydney Opera House Appeal Fund, records nearly 50
interviews with architects, engineers, politicians, commentators and
workers.
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Rehearsal and Recording
Studio becomes Broadwalk Studio for use as a hired
and subsidised performance space for medium or small-scale companies and
contemporary work with uncertain public appeal requiring small financial
investment.
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Neville
Wran resigns as Premier of NSW and is replaced by Barrie Unsworth 4 July
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A proposal for a NSW
Performing Arts Museum is prepared by
Paul Bentley following an approach by the Ministry for the Arts. A task force established by the Minister for the Arts, Frank Walker, adopts recommendations in December 1986 that are substantially
based on the Trust’s submission, involving use of the the Maritime Services Board Building to store collections (the shop) and exhibition
facilities at the Sydney Opera House (the shop window).
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1988
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Sydney Opera House Major
Maintenance Program launched as 10 year program with 650
projects relating to the structural and architectural fabric of the
building, the services within the building and the technical stage
services. The program is
designed to redress rule of thumb calculation for general building
maintenance expenditure and to raise the level to the more commercially
acceptable level of maintenance funding of 1-2% of asset value.
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Nick
Greiner forms Coalition Government 25 March
replacing Labor's Barrie Unsworth as Premier. Peter Collins becomes
Minister for the Arts.
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Building of the Century
Exhibition (curator
Paul Bentley; designer Bill Passmore) opens in June 1988 to celebrate the 15th
anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. Runs until March 1989, attracting
an attendance of 78,000 and stimulating donations of Sydney Opera House
archival material to the Dennis Wolanski Library of the Performing Arts. In
November, Paul Bentley submits a proposal for a permanent exhibition on
the Sydney Opera House in the Exhibition Hall Foyer.
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1989
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Exhibition Building in
the Gardens. In March, Architect Leif Kristensen
submits proposals and drawings to the Trust for a museum and cafe in the
gardens, adjacent to the Man O’ War steps to house a permanent exhibition on the history, design and construction of
the House.
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Broadwalk Studio becomes
the Dennis Wolanski Library Archives of the Performing Arts in
July, originally as a temporary measure to facilitate
construction below the Exhibition Hall/Library space adjacent to the
Playhouse and to provide on-site accommodation for Public Works
Department during the major maintenance program. Other factors leading
to the closure of the Broadwalk Studio as a performance venue were the
significant level of subsidy required to make it viable as a performance
space and its lack of compliance with new fire regulations.
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Elizabeth Butcher succeeds David Block as Chairman.
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