2000 sydney olympic games opening ceremony

Buy It Now. Add to cart. Sold by whimsycool About this product Product Information At sunset on Friday, September 15, , approximately , spectators and over 12, performers celebrated the opening of the 27th Olympiad in Sydney, Australia. Additional Product Features Number of Discs. Show More Show Less. Pre-owned Pre-owned. Ratings and Reviews Write a review. More dancers filed onto the stands where the audience was sitting who also joined in with performance.

Several cherry picker cranes in the center with the floats began to slowly rise up with the crescendo of the music. The dancers symbolized the workers building a new Australia for the future. The dancers in the stands rushed out onto the stadium floor to join their fellow dancers. Some of the dancers held square sheets of steel, that they both danced on and held in their hands to reflect light out as they danced. By the finale of this segment, large steel frames rose from each float to form a tall structure.

In the middle were Nikki Webster and the aboriginal elder, who looked wondrously out into the audience, surveying the workers. Then as the close of the presentation comes near, the performers from the other segments all come out and join in with the dancers already dancing.

A massed Millennium Marching Band of musicians performed both Australian and international classics. The band consisted of Australian musicians, with the remaining musicians being from other countries around the world.

The massed band was so large that six conductors were required for the segment. The band members wore Driza-Bone riding coats which had been especially modified for the band members.

The band was the only live sound creator of the night; all other sounds, including the tap dancers' taps, were pre-recorded. A record nations entered the stadium, the only missing IOC member being Afghanistan which was suspended due to the Taliban regime's prohibition against practicing any kind of sports. Most remarkable was the entering of North and South Korea as one team, using a specially designed unification flag: a white background flag with a blue map of the Korean Peninsula; the two teams would compete separately, however.

Four athletes from East Timor also marched in the parade of nations. Although the country-to-be had no National Olympic Committee then, they were allowed to compete under the Olympic Flag.

Every nation entered under a music piece played by the Olympic Marching Band. As is Olympic tradition, Greece entered first in honor of its position as birthplace of the Olympic Games, and host nation Australia entered last. This would also be seen during the next Olympics, in Salt Lake City, as well. Begaud and Corish are Australian natives, born and raised in Sydney.

This was the first occasion that a Summer Olympics held in a Commonwealth realm was not opened by the monarch or a member of the Royal Family, although it was the second overall, behind the Winter Olympics.

Heroes Forever segment represented an enormous white sheet was produced on the lower audience stand and was brought down over the crowd by workers. Whilst this happened, images of past sports legends were displayed on the sheet, and then a Dove of Peace and the Olympic Rings, for everyone in the stadium to see, and Vanessa Amorosi sang the song "Heroes Live Forever" to signify the legacy left by sports stars all over the world.

The opening ceremony concluded with the lighting of the Olympic Flame. Freeman then climbed a long set of stairs towards a circular pool of water. She walked into the middle of the water and ignited the cauldron around her feet in a ring of fire.

The cauldron then rose out from the water, above Freeman's head, and then was transported up a long waterfall, where it reached its final resting place, high above the stadium. The planned spectacular climax to the ceremony was delayed by the technical glitch of a computer switch that malfunctioned, causing the sequence to shut down by giving a false reading.

This meant that the Olympic flame was suspended in mid-air for about four minutes, rather than immediately rising up the waterfall to the top of the stadium. When the cause of the problem was discovered, the program was overridden and the cauldron continued its course, and the ceremony concluded with a spectacular fireworks display.

It came to light during August that the Sydney Symphony mimed its performance during the opening ceremony to tracks prerecorded by the Sydney Symphony and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This information includes:-? This includes the areas of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, art in the community, dance, literature, music, new media, theatre and visual arts and crafts.

They are able to help with arts story ideas, facilitation of interviews and referral to artists and arts organisations. For more information - www. The Nike-designed suit is the most spectacular piece in the collection of sporting apparel for the strong Australian team. The suit is made of five types of fabric with varying textures to maximise aerodynamics, muscle temperature and the effect of the wind. For instance the hands are covered with a low-friction fabric, some of the back section is mesh to keep the large back muscles cool and most seams are at the back to reduce drag.

Olympic parties on the 15th Five massive Olympic parties will be staged across Australia to coincide with the opening ceremony.

Games revellers will have access to parties in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth similar to the famous Big Day Out formula a large outdoor music, food and arts festival held around Australia in January. Giant 6m x 8m screens will televise the ceremony along with sport highlights and other entertainment.

Redfest, sponsored by Coca-Cola, will feature bands, dance clubs and skateboard demonstrations. More than 30, people are expected at Randwick Racecourse for the Sydney event with 20, tipped to attend Melbourne Park. Already there are lots of rumours floating around, and some unconfirmed sightings of Elvis already here and searching for a burger joint. Entertainment at last lap will nearly be exclusively provided by Sony Music…. This will provide a co-ordinated live broadcast of Olympic events on 17 giant screens throughout the city, around the harbour and across regional NSW.

A thousand years of the Olympics The Hellenic Ministry will stage an exhibition of the treasures of ancient Greece which will bring a unique and magnificent collection of Greek national treasures. An event never to be repeated, 1, years of the Olympic Games will be showcased at the Powerhouse Museum from July 19 to November 15, to coincide with the Olympic Games.

The exhibition comprises more than 50 artefacts which have been selected by the Powerhouse Museum and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture in Athens.