Vivid LIVE Announces Its Ful 2025 Line-Up

The full program for Vivid Sydney has been rolled out today (March 12th), with shows taking place across the CBD from Friday, May 23rd to Saturday, June 14th. The festival will return to the Sydney Opera House, Mary’s Underground and Tumbalong Park, while also hosting shows at venues such as the City Recital Hall, the Oxford Art Factory and the Metro Theatre for the first time. A venue-by-venue breakdown of artists performing, as well as ticketing information, can be found below.

On the international front, Vivid’s line-up is headed up by two exclusive performances by Anohni & The Johnsons inside the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. The New York-based collective have not performed in Australia since 2015, where they performed at that year’s Dark Mofo. It marked the group’s last show for over eight years, as frontwoman Anohni pursued a solo career with her acclaimed 2016 album Hopelessness – the live show for which was premiered at that year’s Vivid.

Their 2025 return will see them performing a new show, which is entitled Mourning The Great Barrier Reef. In a show that Anohni herself has described as “a ceremony fit for the purpose of grieving a loss of such monumental scale”, she and the Johnsons will perform songs from across their catalogue set to cinematic footage of the Reef and scientists who have studied it for decades.

Anohni & The Johnsons – ‘It Must Change’

Also performing at the Opera House is Portishead frontwoman Beth Gibbons, who is not only touring Australia for the first time in nearly 14 years, but for the very first time as a solo artist. Gibbons released her debut solo album, Lives Outgrown, in 2024. Furthermore, the Vivid announcement brings about the long-awaited confirmation that, indeed, Sigur Rós will be performing in the Concert Hall with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as part of their previously-announced orchestral Australian tour, which also includes Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.

Over at Carriageworks, the Eveleigh space will host the likes of jazz great Kamasi Washington, hip-hop supergroup Black Star (AKA Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli), dance producer Mall Grab and the premiere of Ngaiire‘s new live show PAIA, which is described as “an eruption of rage, sex, ecstasy, ceremony, ancestry, and cleansing”. The free program Tumbalong Nights will also return to the tituluar Tumbalong Park, with performances from artists such as Winston Surfshirt, Body Type, Charley, Adrian Eagle and Ayesha Madon taking place across the weeks.

“There’s nothing quite like Vivid,” said Ben Marshall – the Head of Contemporary Music at the Sydney Opera House – in a press statement as part of the program’s announcement. “As well as gathering many of the world’s greatest musical talents here, we’re welcoming the vibrant communities that infuse our music scene with the sounds of Sydney itself.”

Vivid Sydney 2025

Friday, May 23rd to Saturday, June 14th – Various venues, Sydney NSW

Sydney Opera House

Anohni & The Johnsons: Mourning The Great Barrier Reef*
Beth Gibbons
Sigur Rós with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Japanese Breakfast
Marlon Williams
Pat Metheny
Ezra Collective
The Sabres of Paradise*
WavyLand’s 7th Anniversary (with BKTHERULA, Slauson Malone 1, Wiki, Posseshot, Thaiboy Digital, Babyxsosa and Oli XL)*
Pale Jay
Ravyn Lenae
Mount Kimbie
Jessica Pratt
Ichiko Aoba
Miss Kaninna
Surprise Chef
Phoebe Go
sahxl
3%
G2G
Velvet Trip*
Emily Wurramara
Station Model Violence
Yasmina Sadiki
Trackwork 5th Birthday (with Brodinski, Vv Pete and Utility)
Studio Party by Barney Kato (with DJ Sotofett & DJ Fett Burger)
Studio Pary by dstreet (with DJ MARIA., Sunju Hargun and Tangela)
Studio Party by House of Mince (with Boris and the Mince Angels)
Studio Party by DUNJ (with Shackleton, Azu Tiwaline and DUNJ Crew)
Studio Party by Mad Racket (with Red Rack’em, Cousin, Ken Cloud, Jimmi James, Simon Caldwell and Zootie)

* – Vivid exclusive.

A pre-sale for subscribers to the Opera House newsletter will run from 10am AEDT on Thursday, March 13th and can be registered for here. General sale will then follow on Monday, March 17th – again at 10am AEDT – via the Sydney Opera House website.

Carriageworks

Ngaiire: PAIA
Pure Space and Butter Sessions
Skegss
Kamasi Washington
Black Star
DIIV
Mall Grab
Moktar

A pre-sale for Carriageworks account holders (which can be registered for here) will go live from 10am AEDT on Thursday, March 13th – with the exception of Mall Grab’s show, the pre-sale for which will go live from 9am AEDT. The full program will go on general sale on Friday, March 14th – again at 10am AEDT – via the Carriageworks website.

Tumbalong Nights @ Tumbalong Park

Zaeden
Pania (with Devaura)
Stella Jang (with Ivoris)
Gabirele Poso (with GabzaK)
MonoNeon (with Manfredo Lament)
Charley (with Ayesha Madon)
Dobet Gnahore (with Immy Owusu)
Adrian Eagle (with Jaida Weazel)
Winston Surfshirt (with Jerome Blaze)
Body Type (with Ripple Effect Band)
NextGen: V-Pop (with Mỹ Anh and Chi Xê)

All shows are free entry. For dates and time, visit the Vivid Sydney website.

Oxford Art Factory

Pete & Bas (with Nerve and Fisheye FM)
Steel City Dance Discs (with Overcast, Straitjacket Nation, Collector, Rapid Dye, Dysporta x Nerve Damage, CRTB, Hunny and AU4R33Y)

Tickets for both shows on sale now, here and here respectively.

Metro Theatre

Solsa^
Sidney Phillips^
My Sis: Celebrating 10 Years Of Bad Apples Music (with Barkaa, Ladi6, Alice Skye, MĀ and Kenzie From Welly)
Sounds Of Afrobeats: After Dark (with DJ Obi, DJames and DJ Tshegu)
Divide & Dissolve^
10 Years Of NLV Records (with Ninajirachi, 1300, Gold Fang, Dameeeela, Swick and Nina Las Vegas)