The opening ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday, 15 September 2000 in Stadium Australia, Sydney, during which the Games were formally opened by then-Governor-Gener
Fire and Nature segment of the opening ceremony
The Awakening segment featured a 32-metres-long cloth showing a Wandjina spirit – a large head that shows the eyes and nose, but with no mouth.
The Eternity segment showed thousands of tap dancers.
Olympic Hymn
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The Olympic Hymn, also known as the Olympic Anthem, is a choral cantata by opera composer Spyridon Samaras, with Demotic Greek lyrics by Greek poet Kostis Palamas. Both poet and composer were the choi
