Sydney Opera House announces pop-up bar for Vivid LIVE

The Sydney Opera House today announced a program of Vivid-inspired food and beverage experiences and bespoke tours to complement Vivid LIVE’s distinct collection of artists and celebrate the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas, Vivid Sydney.

Sydney Opera House CEO, Louise Herron AM, said the Sydney Opera House is the ultimate location for people enjoying Vivid Sydney. “Vivid LIVE is the centrepiece of our ambitious, year-long contemporary music program. This year for the first time Vivid LIVE is taking over the whole of the Sydney Opera House – not just through the program of influential and innovative artists performing, but also through the transformation of some of our favourite spaces.

“We wanted to create a vibrant festival destination where people can soak up the atmosphere of Vivid LIVE and enjoy the stunning light displays across the harbour.”

Introducing the Vivid LIVE pop-up bar
For the first time, the Sydney Opera House will create a bespoke, indoor harbour-view bar – the Deep Purple Pool Hall – helmed by Jeremy Blackmore and Alex Dowd, of Tio’s Cerveceria and The Cliff Dive fame.

 
It will be open from 6pm until late every night of Vivid LIVE, from 22 – 31 May, tucked under the Lighting of the Sails at the Sydney Opera House, the centrepiece of Vivid Sydney's light program.

The bar will offer up a craft-focused menu of downtown favourites, live DJs and free pool, all within the reinvention of one of the Opera House’s  hideaways: the Concert Hall Northern Foyer.

Ben Marshall, Curator of Vivid LIVE said, “I have wanted to set up a cool bar in this space for five years, ever since I arrived at the Opera House. Overlooking the harbour, it has the best view in Sydney and people will be absolutely blown away that this jewel in the crown of the Opera House hasn’t been used for this before. Whether you’re up for a pre or post-gig drink or on the look-out for the neon eight-ball outside, you can sneak up the back stairs of the Opera House to the Deep Purple Pool Hall and settle into an incredible secret space in the heart of the city, in the middle of this incredible festival.”

As well as the new pop-up venue, each of the bars and restaurants across the Sydney Opera House precinct will serve up an inspired menu of food and drinks during the festival.