Thanks to Gerald Carpenter at Noozhawk for this great preview of Opera Santa Barbara's "Orpheus and Eurydice," this weekend at the Lobero. [Tickets start at just $25: to purchase, call the Lobero box office. 805-963-0761.] [caption id="attachment_1224" align="alignleft" width="463" caption="Click to be taken to Noozhawk and read...

26 April, 2012

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...

27 March, 2012

We’re pleased to announce the return of our popular Tre Lune Opera Night! Sit down and enjoy a sumptuous meal while being serenaded by members of the cast of Opera Santa Barbara’s “Marriage of Figaro”. A romantic night on the town, or a...

22 December, 2011

Opera Santa Barbara announces the return of our free Lunchtime Concerts. Featuring popular and lesser-known opera arias and duets, these concerts feature members of the Studio Artists Program. Concert dates are: October 26, November 2 & 9. All concerts start at 12:00 Noon, and will take...

15 September, 2011
How do you follow a season that critics declared was “on a trajectory to new heights of operatic excellence”? This was the challenge for Opera Santa Barbara’s Artistic Director José Maria Condemi, who has assembled an imposing array of talent for OSB’s 2011-12 season’s three fully-staged operas: Puccini’s enduring love story, La bohème, November 11 and 13 at the Granada Theatre; Mozart’s delightful Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), March 23 and 25 at The Granada Theatre; and to close the season, a debut production of Gluck’s mythical Orphée et Eurydice, April 27 and 29 at The Lobero Theatre.
26 May, 2011
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced a $28,000 grant to Opera Santa Barbara to support 2012 production of Orphée et Eurydice Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, today announced that Opera Santa Barbara has been recommended for a grant of $28,000 to support their April 2012 production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. Opera Santa Barbara is one of 3 Santa Barbara-based organizations recommended for a grant as part of the NEA’s second round of fiscal year 2011 grants. The other two local groups are the Lobero Theatre and the Contemporary Arts Forum. In total, the Arts Endowment will distribute more than $88 million to support 1,145 projects nationwide.
18 May, 2011
“LA DOLCE VITA” EVENT INSPIRED BY CLASSIC ITALIAN FILM 1960s Roman nightlife suggests theme for Opera fundraiser Santa Barbara, CA, May 9, 2011 – Faster than you can say “Volare!” the stage of the Granada Theater will be transformed into a cabaret setting for Opera Santa Barbara’s “La Dolce Vita” fundraiser on May 22 (5:30 p.m.). Noted Santa Barbara architect Britt Jewett, owner of Studio 7 Architecture and Allied Arts, will recreate a vision of the famous Trevi fountain as a focal point of the on-stage decor. Lead architect for the restoration of the Santa Barbara Courthouse Hall of Records, Britt has provided innovative art installation set pieces for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival for the past six years.
10 May, 2011

Opera lecture series finale to feature UCLA Director of Opera Santa Barbara, CA, April 24, 2011– On Wednesday, May 11, Opera Santa Barbara’s popular “Opera on the Go!” series concludes for this season, with a program entitled “Reinventing Opera, Reinventing Ourselves” with Peter Kazaras, Director of...

09 May, 2011
Opera lecture series finale to feature UCLA Director of Opera Santa Barbara, CA, April 24, 2011– On Wednesday, May 11, Opera Santa Barbara’s popular “Opera on the Go!” series concludes for this season, with a program entitled “Reinventing Opera, Reinventing Ourselves” with Peter Kazaras, Director of Opera at UCLA and Artistic Director of the Seattle Opera Young Artists Program.
09 May, 2011
CASA Magazine Review of "Trouble In Tahiti" and "La serva padrona" Opera Duet: ??La Serva Padrona and Trouble in Tahiti at Opera Santa Barbara FRIDAY, April 15, 2011 by Robert F. Adams Intriguing performances of Giovanni Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona (The Servant Mistress) paired with Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti were given by Opera Santa Barbara at the historic Lobero Theatre on April 8th and 10th, 2011. An adventurous double-bill, this unlikely program of short operatic works comprised the final productions of the current opera season.
18 April, 2011
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L'Elisir d'Amore, March 2016, Photo by David Bazemore