{"id":377645,"date":"2025-12-30T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377645\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T17:07:13","slug":"game-set-music-15-nights-of-pre-match-entertainment-set-for-rod-laver-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377645\/","title":{"rendered":"Game, Set, Music: 15 nights of pre-match entertainment set for Rod Laver Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/articles\/news\/ao-live-presents-renee-rapp-make-highly-anticipated-australian-debut\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AO LIVE acts already announced<\/a> to perform both at TOPCOURT and John Cain Arena include The Kid Laroi, The Veronicas, The Presets, and Renee Rapp.<\/p>\n<p>All performances before play on Rod Laver Arena are included in the arena ticket price. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The full line-up<\/p>\n<p>Pre-match entertainment in Rod Laver Arena at AO 2026: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 18 January<br \/>Cody Simpson \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monday 19 January\u00a0<br \/>Leo Sayer<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 20 January\u00a0<br \/>Casey Donovan<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 21 January\u00a0<br \/>Olivia Coe-Fox with didgeridoo player Neenan<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 22 January\u00a0<br \/>Gabriyel Thomas, lead of Cats the Musical<\/p>\n<p>Friday 22 January<br \/>Jude York<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 24 January\u00a0<br \/>Rob Mills<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 25 January<br \/>The 10 Tenors<\/p>\n<p>Monday 26 January\u00a0<br \/>Day national anthem \u2013 Daniel Makunike from MJ the Musical \u00a0<br \/>Night national anthem \u2013 Mirusia\u00a0<br \/>James Johnston \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday 27 January\u00a0<br \/>Ovation &#8211; Marina Prior, Sylvie Paladino, David Hobson and Michael Cormick<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 28 January<br \/>Jael Wena \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday 29 January\u00a0<br \/>Patti LaBelle<\/p>\n<p>Friday 30 January<br \/>Melbourne Symphony Orchestra \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saturday 31 January\u00a0<br \/>National anthem \u2013 Pitchface\u00a0<br \/>Georgina Hopson, lead from Anastasia<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 1 February<br \/>National anthem &#8211; Paulini\u00a0<br \/>Sophie Ellis-Bextor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AO LIVE acts already announced to perform both at TOPCOURT and John Cain Arena include The Kid Laroi,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-377645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}