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When fairies and mortals cross paths, mayhem is sure to follow. Fairy king Oberon and his wife Tytania are locked in a quarrel when a group of unhappy young lovers wanders into their forest. Oberon dispatches the mischievous sprite Puck to resolve the young lovers’ strife with the help of a magical elixir… but when Puck applies that elixir to the wrong people, chaos erupts across the forest. The young paramours enter a dark and surreal dream world where plans of revenge go hand-in-hand with seduction. Britten’s hypnotizing score sets the perfect atmosphere for this journey into love’s absurdities.

EPSG:4326

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2025)

Webster University

Xian Conducts Carmina Burana

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

New Jersey Symphony: Xian Conducts Carmina Burana

Opera Santa Barbara in collaboration with the Argyropoulos Chair of Hellenic Studies at UCSB celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas with an evening of arias and ensembles from the repertoire of the great diva sung by sopranos Eleni Calenos and Jana McIntyre, accompanied by the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra conducted by Kostis Protopapas. 

Greek soprano Eleni Calenos, has portrayed Puccini and Verdi heroines throughout the United Stated in performances that were hailed as “for the ages, both vocally and dramatically”  by Opera News,  “searing…, mercurial, heart-on-the sleeve” by The Wall Street Journal, and “a true wonder” by the Houston Press.  

La Divina: The Art of Maria Callas

Lobero Theatre

Bank of America Performing Arts Center

LA DIVINA: Calenos and McIntyre sing Callas

Eleni Calenos and Jana McIntyre sing signature arias of Maria Callas, accompanied by the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra, conducted by Kostis Protopapas.

LA DIVINA: The Art of Maria Callas

Stephen Sondheim’s classic musical, which interweaves timeless fairy tales and explores the consequences of its characters’ wishes and quests. Featuring a cast of stars from the worlds of opera and musical theatre.

“…delightful, big and lovable and accessible and loaded with some of Stephen Sondheim’s most gorgeous and endearing songs.” —

Into the Woods

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

The SCSO pays tribute to some of the world’s best-loved musicals celebrating one of the most influential, innovative, and unstoppable duos of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration

Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center

O fortuna! So begins Carl Orff’s famous work for chorus and orchestra, Carmina burana. But there’s more to this epic masterpiece than the thunderous opening chorus, known far and wide for its use in Hollywood films and advertisements. Drawn from medieval poems that vividly celebrate the secular topics of love, lust, excess and indulgence, Carmina burana spans the full range of musical styles, ranging from the power and majesty of full orchestra and chorus to the delicate intimacy of a single human voice.

Carmina Burana

Benaroya Hall

Every night beautiful Giulia lowers a silk ladder from her window for her lover to climb to her bedroom.  A series of misunderstandings turns their little love nest into a circus of relatives, suitors, and servants plotting, eavesdropping, and ultimately happily reconciling, in a blast of Rossini’s glorious vocal acrobatics.

La Scala di Seta

Join us for Opera Santa Barbara’s first mainstage baroque opera!  Santa Barbara native, Jana McIntyre (Norina, Don Pasuale ’21) sings the title role, who is in love with the God, Jupiter, sung by Robert Stahley making his Opera Santa Barbara debut. Also making their company debuts are countertenor Logan Tanner in the role of Athamas, Semele’s mortal betrothed, and mezzo soprano Sarah Coit, singing the goddess Juno, the spurned wife of Jupiter. Director Sara E. Widzer (Carmen in your Car, ’20) returns to bring the escapades and foibles of both mortals and Gods alike to the Lobero stage in this production set in the roaring 20’s. This production will feature lighting design by Helena Kuukka and projections designed by Yuki Izumihara. Rounding out our creative team, Maestra Emily Senturia leads the Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra through this journey of love, lust, jealousy, and revenge!

Semele

A girl raised on the battlefield by a rowdy French Regiment falls in love with an enemy peasant boy, in the ultimate bel canto romantic comedy full of melodies and vocal fireworks. Starring Jana McIntyre, and directed by Pacific Opera Project’s irrepressible Josh Shaw.

Jana McIntyre

Soprano

Events

Upcoming events

2 - 4 May, 2025

The Daughter of the Regiment · Opera Santa Barbara

Past events

14 - 28 Jun, 2024

A Midsummer Night's Dream (2025) · Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

1 - 3 Mar, 2024

Xian Conducts Carmina Burana · New Jersey Symphony

Future and recently performed repertoire

Soprano in Carmina Burana by Orff

Seattle Symphony

Cinderella in Into the Woods by Sondheim

Tulsa Opera

Semele in Semele by Handel

Opera Santa Barbara

Giulia in La scala di seta by Rossini

Opera Santa Barbara

Marie in La fille du régiment by Donizetti

Opera Santa Barbara

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