The House is the economically direct title of a new book about ‘the dramatic story of the Sydney Opera House and the people who made it’ by Helen Pitt (Allen&Unwin). Before it opened, she tells us, there were some who wanted to call it the Sydney Entertainment Centre, fearing that the word ‘opera’ implied pearls and mink coats.
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