Sarasota Opera House
61 N Pineapple Ave.
Sarasota, FL 34236
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It situated near the Main Street, and cross street is their Selby public library. The house produced four operas in 2023 season.
The three floor opera house was opened in 1926. Architect was Roy A. Benjamin (1887-1963) who moved from Ocala to Jacksonville in 1902. Before, it was named Edwards Theatre for the first mayor of Sarasota – Arthur Britton Edwards, who envisioned it.
The mediterranean revival style theater has 1,119 seats. Although it had a major renovations in 2007-8, but the air conditioning system doesn’t work well tho.
A few operas we saw:
Near by, St. Pete has its own opera house.
