starring Jacqueline McKenzie and Barry Otto. 2004 – Canadian singer Michael Bublé performed in the Concert Hall. 2008 – Premiere performance of "Angels in the Architecture" by Frank Ticheli, a wind band composition inspired by the opera house itself. Conducted by Matthew George. 2009 – First VIVID Live Music program curated by Brian Eno. 2011 – Oprah Winfrey filmed her Ultimate Australian Adventure in the forecourt. 2020 – First Six performance in Australia was held in The Studio theatre, making it one of the first hit musical performances in The Studio theatre. Awards RAIA Merit Award, 1974. Meritorious Lighting Award of the Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia, 1974. RAIA Civic Design Award, 1980. RAIA Commemorative Award, Jørn Utzon – Sydney Opera House, 1992. Cultural references The Opera House (often along with the nearby Sydney Harbour Bridge), is frequently used in establishing shots for films and television to identify the setting as Sydney and/or Australia. The Sydney Opera House appeared on the cover of the Phoenix Force adventure novel Down Under Thunder in 1986. The Sydney Opera House appeared in the 1990 Disney animated film The Rescuers Down Under. In the 1991 season 5, episode 5 of Inspector Morse, titled "Promised Land", Morse climbs the steps at the end of the episode to attend an opera performance. Near the end of the 1996 film Independence Day, the Sydney Opera House appeared after an alien ship near Sydney was destroyed. The Sydney Opera House appeared in the 2003 Disney/Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. The Sydney Opera House featured in the 2004 Godzilla movie, Godzilla Final Wars, in which the titular character dispatched an enemy, Zilla, destroying the famous landmark in the process. The Sydney Opera House appeared in the final scene of 2007 film Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle. In Better Call Saul, the father of Werner Ziegler, a German engineer who helped build Gus Fring's drug laboratory, had reportedly worked on the construction of the Sydney Opera House. The Opera House appeared during the closing credits of the 2011 film Cars 2, in which the building's podium was modelled on the front of a Holden FC. In the 2013 video game SimCity the building is featured as a placeable landmark building. In the 2016 superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse, the building and other parts of Sydney are destroyed when Magneto manipulates the Earth's magnetic poles. In the 2016 4X video game Civilization