Opera Santa Barbara’s season opens with ‘Carmen’ on September 29 | Credit score: Courtesy
Bandits, swashbucklers, and star-crossed lovers will populate a lineup of pageantry and excessive drama impressed by the music and historical past of Spain in Opera Santa Barbara’s thirtieth Anniversary Season. Opera Santa Barbara will kick off the celebration of this milestone season with particular performances and a float on the 2023 Previous Spanish Days Fiesta Parade on Friday, August 4, and can showcase characters from the season’s operas and performances by firm artists.
The official opera season will open at The Granada Theatre with Bizet’s Carmen on Friday, September 29, and Sunday, October 1. Many singers can be making their debut within the title roles and the present will function dancers from State Road Ballet. Tickets for the productions may be discovered right here.
The season will proceed as signature opera arias headline a celebration of the hundred yr start of legendary Greek soprano Maria Callas. They are going to be accompanied by the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra performed by Kostis Protopapas and offered in collaboration with UCSB. A lecture on the life and legacy of Maria Callas, can even be offered by UCSB on the Lobero Theatre on Wednesday, November 8 (tickets and knowledge may be discovered right here). Opera Santa Barbara will carry out this system once more on Sunday, November 12, within the Kavli Theatre on the Financial institution of America Performing Arts Heart in Thousand Oaks (tickets and knowledge may be discovered right here).
The annual showcase of the corporate’s Chrisman Studio Artists will happen on the Heart Stage Theatre December 1-3, out there this fall right here.
On Friday, February 9, and Sunday, February 11, 2024 on the Lobero the corporate presents a brand new manufacturing of Verdi’s historic melodrama Il trovatore, a narrative of superstition, revenge, and ill-fated love in medieval Spain mixed with a few of Verdi’s most passionate melodies and powerhouse forged stars. Tickets and knowledge may be discovered right here.
The season will shut on Friday, April 19, and Sunday, April 21, 2024 on the Lobero Theatre, with the corporate premiere of Hector Armienta’s swashbuckling journey Zorro. Zorro is predicated on the adventures of Johnston McCully’s legendary pulp hero, the dashing masked vigilante who defends the commoners and indigenous folks of California towards tyrannical officers. Tickets and knowledge may be discovered right here.
