Two tickets - Rochester Opera House

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Description
Bid on two tickets to any show at the Rochester Opera House!
The new Rochester City Hall and Opera House combination was revealed to the public on Memorial Day 1908. Well known architect and Rochester native, George Gilman Adams, designed a magnificent theatre with stunning architectural details...horseshoe balcony, grand proscenium, intricate stenciling, near-perfect acoustics. Adams invented a unique mechanism that raises the auditorium floor at an incline for amphitheater seating or levels the floor for dancing.
By 1984 the Opera House, an "elegant new theatre" and source of civic pride in 1908, lay in ruins. No one remembered how to operate or where to locate the floor mechanism. No one remembered the intricate stenciling and murals hidden behind layers of paint. The community dream to restore this once shining community treasure seemed impossible.
In 1996 Mayor Harvey E. Bernier, Jr. launched the Rochester Opera House Restoration Project. The dream became reality with a monumental, mainly volunteer, community effort for which the City of Rochester received the 1997 Governor's Award in the Arts for Community Spirit. The Rochester Opera House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is the only theatre with a moveable auditorium floor mechanism that remains in the country today.
Special Instructions
Tickets will be mailed to the winning bidder at no additional cost.
Generously donated by the Rochester Opera House. For more information about them, visit www.rochesteroperahouse.com