Sarasota Opera House, Opera house in downtown Sarasota, United States.

The Sarasota Opera House is a Mediterranean Revival theater at 61 North Pineapple Avenue, designed by Roy A. Benjamin and built in 1926. Its three-story entrance originally held shops, offices, and apartments; the auditorium seats 1,119 and its reopened atrium is covered by a skylight.

Designed by Roy A. Benjamin in Mediterranean Revival style and built by the G.A. Miller Construction Company, the Edwards Theatre opened on April 10, 1926, with shops, offices and furnished apartments above the auditorium. Renamed the Florida Theatre in 1936, it closed as a movie house in 1973. The Asolo Opera Guild bought it in 1979 for $150,000, began renovations in 1982, and saw it listed on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1984.

The Sarasota Opera Association owns the building and stages four operas each year between February and April. Its seasons have opened with works such as Verdi's Rigoletto, performed when the renovated house reopened in 2008. The company grew out of the Asolo Opera Guild, which began producing its own operas in 1974.

The opera house stands at 61 North Pineapple Avenue in downtown Sarasota. The auditorium holds 1,119 seats, and after the 2009–2010 season some seats along the far sides were removed and replaced with aisles. The Sarasota Opera performs four operas each year between February and April.

The 2008 renovation reopened the three-story atrium and added a skylight; the atrium and skylight dated from 1926 but had been covered by a ceiling and a chandelier used in the film Gone with the Wind. The chandelier was part of that covering, not an original fixture.