Lobero Theatre

Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre, from Canon Perdido Street

The Lobero Theatre, founded by José Lobero, is a historic building in Santa Barbara, California. It is at the corner of Anacapa and Canon Perdido Streets, less than a block away from the historic Presidio of Santa Barbara.

History

Built in 1873 as an opera house, the theater was rebuilt to Spanish Colonial Revival style designs by architects George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs for the Community Arts Music Association in the early 1920s, and opened in August 1924, during a period in which civic groups in Santa Barbara were beginning to unify the town's architectural look around a Spanish Colonial style.

Present day

The theatre continues to host arts and cultural events on 250 or more days per year.

Because of its live acoustics and relatively small size it is particularly suited to chamber music.

The Music Academy of the West holds many of its summer concerts in the Lobero.

External links

• Official Lobero Theatre' website
• Lobero Theater Records, at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.