The saga of the Opera House actually began in 1957, when, at the age of 38, Jorn Utzon was still a relatively unknown architect with a practice in Denmark near where Shakespeare had located Hamlet's castle.
He was living in a small seaside town with his wife and three children - one son, Kim, born that year; another son Jan, born in 1944, and a daughter, Lin, born in 1946 - all three would follow in their father's footsteps and become architects.
Their home was a house in Hellebæk that he had built just five years before, one of the few designs that he had actually realized since opening his studio in 1945.
