Thanks to Karen Pelland for the wonderful interview with Layna Chianakas, who will star in Opera Santa Barbara's Orpheus and Eurydice" this weekend. [Tickets start at just $25: to purchase, call the Lobero box office. 805-963-0761.] [caption id="attachment_1213" align="alignleft" width="477" caption="Click to be taken to kdb.com and...
Did you know that Opera Santa Barbara offers discounts of 15% off the cost of tickets to our opera productions for groups of 15 or more? In addition, for our Friday evening performances, we offer a special "Group Cocktail Reception" for an additional $5 per...
Opera Santa Barbara videographer Daniel Anderson interviews Robin Wilson, one of the dancers from our current production of Orpheus & Eurydice. The production features extensive dance segments choreographed by Yannis Adoniou, and includes dancers from the State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Dance Theatre and Bodytraffic. To...
Opera Santa Barbara will offer two final noontime concerts in April featuring members of our 2012 Studio Artists Program. Don’t miss these opera-stars-of-tomorrow performing popular arias and ensembles. These one-hour concerts are offered free to the general public. Wednesday, April 11, at the Granada Theatre (McCune...
Opera Santa Barbara is offering access to a series of parties, which will be sold to support our 20th Anniversary Season! Parties include: High Tea at the Tea Gardens Bocce and Arias in Santa Ynez The Art of Sushi at the Pagoda House Bon Appétit at Villa Ravello A Celebrity...
Breaking News: Opera Santa Barbara is pleased to welcome Valentina Fleer as the soprano soloist for Tuesday's Gala, "An Affair to Remember." The Russian-American soprano has been drawing continuous attention for her “golden voice,” praised for its “shimmering clarity” and “sweetness and power.” This May she will sing Musetta in La bohème at the Los Angeles Opera, where she debuted last year as Barbarina in The Marriage of Figaro, conducted by Plácido Domingo. 
Baritone Jason Detwiler’s stage presence and voice have been described as "commanding, richly expressive and emotionally fervid". He started singing when a high-school girlfriend pushed him into the choir. Sometimes fate needs a hand; his passion for performing born, he went on to study music at Sacramento State University and met his future wife, mezzo-soprano Michele Detwiler. 
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Next week's "Opera on the GO!" presentation on opera in film has been moved to the Granada Theater's Founders Room (1214 State Street, SB 93101). This change will affect ONLY this lecture; the remainder of the series will be back at its regular home: The...