When the sun sets

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34048, 12 January 1976, Page 6

When the sun sets

That evocative word “sunset” seems to have caught the entrepreneurial mind in Sydney to judge by a couple of new promotions. For both sunset means six o’clock.

Starting in late January and over several weeks Sydney Opera House is staging a series of “Sunset Staircase” concerts. Various top-notch jazz and classical musicians will perform in front of the John Olsen mural in the northern foyer of the concert hall overlooking the Harbour. Adults will pay $2, and students, pensioners and under 16s sl,’ to sit on the carpeted stairs or promenade as

they like during a performance. More expensive is a tour company’s “Sunset and Starlight” jaunt for which you need $19.75 — and a certain amount of staying power. It is nine hours almost non-stop entertainment finishing at three in the morning. It includes a champagne cruise on the Harbour, a coach tour of the. city’s “interesting” areas, such as the lights of King’s Cross and the Rocks, where a hearty “■Australian" dinner is dished .4 up at an old colonial’tavern, and supper and the show at a theatre restaurant.