Gulfshore Opera

This week features ballet and opera performances, plus a film on the music of the Strauss family

Tom Hall

This week, Sarasota Ballet performs “Romeo & Juliet;” Sarasota Opera House closes its 2024-2025 season with seven opera performances plus its Salute to the Stars; Gulfshore Opera performs Rusalka with the Florida Philharmonic; and Opera Naples screens the second of four Spring Film Series movies.

Gulfshore Ballet closes out Opera Naples Festival Under the Stars with two performances of Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet on March 15.

Arts & Culture

Here's what's at the opera and ballet in Southwest Florida the week of March 10

Tom Hall

Opera Naples Festival Under the Stars closes on Saturday, March 15, with two performances of Tchaikovsky’s "Sleeping Beauty" performed by Gulfshore Ballet in the Wang Opera Center. Gulfshore Opera offers a “Taste of Opera” on Thursday at the Naples Sailing & Yacht Club. And the Sarasota Opera House will perform five different operas over the course of the week.

Gulfshore Opera premiere’s a fresh take on Die Fledermaus titled “The Bat’s Revenge”

John Davis

Southwest Florida’s regional touring opera company Gulf Shore Opera kicks off the first formal production of its eighth season with performances of “The Bat’s Revenge.” The show is an innovative retelling of Johann Strauss’ operetta “Die Fledermaus.” We talk with the creator of the show, opera director and librettist Josh Shaw, who has come to Southwest Florida to direct performances of this debut production.