Experience Cirque Stratosphere

OUT OF THIS WORLD SPECTACLE

ON STAGE AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE

THIS FESTIVE season, Cirque Stratosphere – a spectacular new circus from the creators of CIRCUS 1903 (2016) and last summer’s smash-hit The Illusionists: Direct from Broadway – will transform the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall into a futuristic space-age utopia for a strictly limited season from December 24 to 29, 2019.

Cirque Stratosphere heading for the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall.

A dazzling new show, Cirque Stratosphere features gravity-defying acts on a scale never seen before at the Opera House.

For six nights only, a troupe of Olympic-standard acrobats and gymnasts cast by The Works Entertainment will demonstrate that even the sky isn’t the limit.

Audiences will witness thrilling performances inside The Columbian Wheel of Death, impressive stunts on rollerskates, death-defying acrobatics on a Russian Bar – where the performer is thrown in the air by two partners holding the bar – sky-high contortions in The Aerial Sphere, the Russian Swing to Swing and many more.

These extraordinary feats effortlessly blend agility, coordination and showmanship to create an out-of-this-world spectacle.

Sydney Opera House Head of Contemporary Performance, Olivia Ansell, says: “We’re proud to take one small step for man and one giant step for circus with The Works Entertainment to create the brand new show Cirque Stratosphere.

"The 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing has renewed our fascination with space, and what lives beyond the earth’s atmosphere.

"Lift off with your family and friends in the Concert Hall this festive season. Your only mission – fun!”

The talented duo Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, otherwise known as The Works Entertainment, are also the creative minds behind the epic Le Grand Cirque, Le Noir, Cirque Adrenalin and The Illusionists.

Their unmissable productions have now travelled to more than 400 cities around the globe.

Simon Painter, Creative Producer, The Works Entertainment, says: “We are very excited for audiences to witness this futuristic aerial spectacular in the round, as never before seen in the Concert Hall. It’s a redefinition of circus.”

Tickets go on sale on Monday, September 16, 2019 at sydneyoperahouse.com

CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

Contemporary Performance at the Sydney Opera House champions modern storytellers, pop-culture visionaries and work that is bold, entertaining and genre-defying.

The program presents the best Australian and international productions including theatre, music theatre, comedy, cabaret, circus, magic and pop culture.

It has featured award-winning musicals such as Assassins and In the Heights; circus-cabaret hit Blanc de Blanc Encore, crowd pleaser Thrones! The Musical Parody.

Up next is the feel-good sing-along hit The Choir of Man’s return season, radical rock musical HAIR, the Australian Premiere of Penn & Teller, Hannah Gadsby’s new show Douglas and the pop-cabaret SIX The Musical in the Studio from January 2020.

THE WORKS ENTERTAINMENT, established by Simon Painter and Tim Lawson, is recognised as one of the most successful live entertainment companies in the world, creating, presenting and producing first class entertainment throughout over 400 cities and 40 countries.

Their award-winning shows including The Illusionists, Le Noir, Cirque Adrenaline, Now You See Me and Circus 1903 have smashed box office records multiple times around the world including Broadway’s Palace, Marquis and Neil Simon Theatres and London’s Shaftesbury Theatre.

The Works Entertainment is a wholly owned division of the Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group.

National tour dates include Canberra Theatre Centre, ACT from December 10 to 21.

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