The live web stream of the lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails was only available on opening night - Tues 26 May.

If you wish to experience Lighting the Sails, you can't beat the real thing. The sails will be lit every night from 6pm-1am until 14 June. If you can't make it to Sydney Opera House to witness it first hand, CLICK HERE to watch the time-lapse footage from opening night.*

*The incorrect starting time of 5pm was published in some communications. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Sydney Opera House presents LUMINOUS – a festival of music, ideas, light and performance. Curated by Brian Eno, this inaugural year features a plethora of music acts, alongside public talks and spectacular light and art installations. LUMINOUS is presented in partnership with Sony as part of Vivid Sydney.

For the full LUMINOUS line-up click here
26 May - 14 June  |  FREE EVENT

LUMINOUS opens tonight with the lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails. Get yourself down to Sydney Opera House to see Utzon’s masterpiece glow with continuously changing patterns of colour and light. More info

If you can’t make it down to experience the spectacle first hand, be sure to check out the live web stream from 5pm to 1am tonight.

Presented in association with Smart Light, the sails will remain lit for the three weeks of LUMINOUS.
Almost everyone has encountered the work of Brian Eno: as inventor of 'ambient' music; as record producer for U2, Coldplay and Talking Heads; and as an acclaimed visual artist. He is an innovator, an architect of new ideas, a father to new ways of thinking.

“I feel very honoured to have been invited to curate this festival. The brief I was given by Sydney Opera House can loosely be read as ‘you suggest it, and we’ll organize it’, which is about as generous and as trusting as one could ever dream of.” Brian Eno

Sydney Opera House