Airdate: The Crown Prince Couple’s Awards

On Friday night SBS will screen The Crown Prince Couple’s Awards in which HRH Crown Prince Frederik and HRH Crown Princess Mary presented cultural awards at the Sydney Opera House.

This features both Danish and Australian artists, including stars from Borgen and The Killing.

The Danish Crown Prince Couple met in Australia and got married in 2004. To mark this occasion the Danish charity fund, the Bikuben Foundation, established an award ceremony as a wedding present. Since then HRH Crown Prince Frederik and HRH Crown Princess Mary have annually awarded innovative social projects as well as artists with international potential. The awards include the Crown Prince Couple’s Culture award, Crown Prince Couple’s Social award and two Rising Star awards.

The Crown Prince Couple are visiting Sydney as patrons of the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. True to tradition the couple will personally present the awards and prize money as they have selected the prize winners based on input from their advisory committee.

Hosted by SBS’s own effervescent Julia Zemiro and Danish TV personality Nikolaj Koppel, the large-scale Danish-Australian award show will be presented from the Sydney Opera House on 28 October with appearances by both award-winning Australian and Danish performers. These outstanding musical acts include much-loved Indigenous singer-songwriter Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu; gritty Aussie rock and blues artist Diesel; Danish singer and previous recipient of the Rising Star award Oh Land; the soulful indie pop Danish sensation MØ (aka Karen Marie Ørsted), and talented violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen.

Friday 1 November at 8.40pm on SBS ONE