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23-506: In 1987, Jean Weidner Goldstein founded The Sarasota Ballet as a presenting organization, establishing its status as a resident ballet company in 1990 with the appointment of Montreal choreographer Eddy Toussaint as its director. The first performance was presented on November 3, 1990, at the Sarasota Opera House . Robert de Warren , former director of ballet at Teatro alla Scala Milan, served as Artistic Director from 1994 - 2007. With

46-497: A Pulitzer Prize winner or finalist four times, its first nomination having been in 2008. On May 5, 2017, the newspaper won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for its "Bias on the Bench" investigative series, which found judges throughout Florida sentence black defendants to harsher punishments than whites charged with the same crimes under similar circumstances. That series previously won

69-657: A concert there on February 21, 1956. Over the years, managements changed as did the name of the theatre: in December 1936 it became The Florida Theatre while, in the same year, a hurricane damaged the Robert-Morton pipe organ. Various attempts to modernize removed most of its original Art Deco features. It then became a full-time movie theater, but in 1973, it closed. By the early 1970s, the non-profit Asolo Opera Guild began to present small-scale operas in Sarasota from out-of-town in

92-704: A fairyland of costly decoration, rich furnishings and never to be forgotten artistry." The building was designed by Roy A. Benjamin in Mediterranean Revival Style Architecture and constructed by the GA Miller Construction Company . The theatre is the home of the Sarasota Opera Association, Inc., which owns the building. The Association is the parent body that runs the Sarasota Opera . It has 1,119 seats. In

115-522: A senior producer at CNN (Kessler also worked at The New York Times , E.W. Scripps Company , 100Reporters and the Detroit Free Press ); Anthony Cormier, another former Herald-Tribune investigations editor and Pulitzer winner who now works for BuzzFeed ; and Carol E. Lee, a former Herald-Tribune reporter, later a White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal . Food writer and author Kathleen Flinn notes that she first conceived of

138-519: Is a daily newspaper , located in Sarasota, Florida , founded in 1925 as the Sarasota Herald . The newspaper was owned by The New York Times Company from 1982 to 2012. It was then owned by Halifax Media Group from 2012 to 2015, when New Media Investment Group acquired Halifax. The Herald-Tribune was one of the first newspapers in the nation to have an in-house 24-hour cable news channel. SNN

161-560: The Buffalo News ; and Diane McFarlin , now dean of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. When McFarlin accepted the dean position in January 2013, she had been Herald-Tribune publisher for 13 years. Other notable alumni of the newspaper include Chris Davis, now USA Today ’s vice president of investigative reporting (Davis, previously investigations editor at

184-588: The Edwards Theatre ) is a historic theater building used as an opera house at 61 North Pineapple Avenue in Sarasota , Florida . The building was the vision of A.B. Edwards, the first mayor of Sarasota. It opened on April 10, 1926, with a three-story entrance containing eight shops on the ground floor, 12 offices on the second floor, and 12 furnished apartments on the third. The theatre's auditorium contained an orchestral pipe organ . The Sarasota Herald-Tribune hailed Edwards for "having admitted Sarasota into

207-648: The Herald-Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times has been involved in seven Pulitzer Prize-winning or finalist projects); Matthew Doig, the assistant managing editor/investigations at the Los Angeles Times (Doig, another former Herald-Tribune investigations editor was previously investigations editor at the Seattle Times and Newsday ); Aaron Kessler, an investigations reporter at the Herald-Tribune and now

230-610: The Metropolitan Opera , was appointed executive director. The company includes thirty-seven professional dancers and eight apprentices (as of 2019) from around the world, many of them young Americans. Among the principals are Danielle Brown , Kate Honea, Victoria Hulland, Ricardo Graziano , Ricardo Rhodes and Luke Schaufuss. The Sarasota Ballet also maintains a Studio Company for supplementary performance support and cooperation with other local performing arts organizations. In August 2012, Margaret Barbieri, former principal dancer of

253-783: The Royal Ballet , was appointed assistant director of The Sarasota Ballet. Barbieri has staged 22 ballets for The Sarasota Ballet, including Sir Peter Wright 's Giselle and Summertide ; Sir Frederick Ashton 's The Two Pigeons , Façade , Birthday Offering , Les Patineurs , Les Rendezvous , La fille mal gardée , Valses nobles et sentimentales and Jazz Calendar ; Dame Ninette de Valois ' Checkmate and The Rake's Progress ; John Cranko 's Pineapple Poll ; Christopher Wheeldon 's There Where She Loved and The American ; Michel Fokine 's Les Sylphides and Petrushka and Rudolf Nureyev 's Raymonda Act III . Sarasota Opera House The Sarasota Opera House (originally

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276-513: The 1920s, the building quickly became a popular entertainment venue with major performers such as Will Rogers (in 1927) and the Ziegfeld Follies (1928) appearing there. The world premiere of Cecil B. DeMille 's The Greatest Show on Earth (which had been filmed in Sarasota) was shown there in late 1951, attended by its stars Charlton Heston and Dorothy Lamour . Elvis Presley performed

299-471: The 2015 - 2016 season, including 36 world premieres and 7 American premieres. For their 25th anniversary season (2015–2016), The Sarasota Ballet became the first American company to present Ashton's ballets Marguerite and Armand and Enigma Variations . During Iain Webb's directorship, ticket sales grew from $ 300,000 in 2007 to over $ 1.675 million in 2015. In February 2016, Joseph Volpe , retired general manager of

322-657: The 320-seat Asolo Theater. By 1974, the group had begun to produce its own operas. In 1979, the Guild bought the old Edwards Theatre for $ 150,000. The structure required major renovations to restore the facility and to accommodate the demands of opera production, so the Association began work in 1982, resulting in the new Sarasota Opera House appearing on the National Register of Historic Places in March 1984. Further renovations between

345-639: The American Society of News Editors’ Batten Medal, which honors achievement in public service journalism, and was a finalist for ASNE’s Dori J. Maynard Award for Diversity in Journalism. It also won the Society of Professional Journalists ' national Sigma Delta Chi Award . "Bias on the Bench" was also a finalist for Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Innovation in Investigative Journalism — Small; for

368-695: The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School; and for the Selden Ring Award from the University of Southern California Annenberg School. Editors of the Herald-Tribune include Bill Church, now senior vice president of news at GateHouse Media in Austin, Texas; Michael K. Connelly, now executive editor of

391-700: The Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and the Joyce Theater. At the Frederick Ashton Festival, staged at the Sarasota Opera House in May 2014, The Sarasota Ballet offered a wide selection of Ashton's works. These included Birthday Offering , Illuminations , Les Rendezvous , Sinfonietta , and Valses nobles et sentimentales . Under Webb's leadership, the company performed 135 ballets and divertissements through

414-661: The appointment of former Royal Ballet dancer Iain Webb as director in 2007, the company has achieved national and international recognition, especially for its many productions of the ballets of Sir Frederick Ashton . The Sarasota Ballet has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with the Suzanne Farrell Ballet and Ballet Across America III, at Fall for Dance at the New York City Center,

437-399: The end of the 2007 season and the opening of the 2008 season have led to a significantly-enhanced opera theatre. The $ 20 million renovation included gutting the auditorium, which resulted in a newly configured seating plan; expansion of the public areas and Opera Club on the second level; re-opening the 3-story atrium, which was covered with a newly-installed skylight. The atrium and skylight

460-643: Was designed by Arquitectonica and won the American Institute of Architect's Award of Excellence. In early 2017, the Herald-Tribune moved to new offices next door to its old headquarters on the fourth, fifth and ninth floors of 1777 Main Street. In 2021, Jennifer Orsi was named executive editor. On April 18, 2011, Herald-Tribune reporter Paige St. John won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for her series on Florida's insurance industry. This

483-475: Was founded in 1995 along with partner Comcast . SNN was sold to private investors in January 2009. The original former headquarters for the newspaper was added to the National Register of Historic Places and still exists, containing the Sarasota Woman's Exchange and several other small businesses; the 1969 replacement building torn down in 2010 to make room for a new Publix . The new headquarters building

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506-482: Was original to the building in 1926, but was covered by a ceiling and a chandelier used in the film, Gone with the Wind . In 2008, the Sarasota Opera reopened with Verdi 's Rigoletto . Seating was expanded to approximately 1,200, however, after the 2009-2010 season, some seats along the far sides were removed and replaced with aisles leaving 1,119 seats. Sarasota Herald-Tribune The Sarasota Herald-Tribune

529-549: Was the first Pulitzer in the Herald-Tribune ' s history, marking a "sustained commitment to excellence". On April 18, 2016, Herald-Tribune reporter Michael Braga won the newspaper's second Pulitzer Prize for investigative journalism for a series in partnership with the Tampa Bay Times called Insane. Invisible. In danger that detailed the horrific conditions in Florida’s mental health hospitals. The newspaper has been

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