La serva padrona
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
- “Love and marriage, as one musical-theater composer noted, go together like a horse and carriage. Opera Santa Barbara presented both sides of this coin last weekend in a satisfying evening of one-acts. While they make for an unlikely pairing… this particular arranged marriage worked splendidly… [with] a genuine arc culminating in a surprisingly powerful ending.”
– Tom Jacobs / SB Independent
- “Last weekend’s double-header chamber opera event was a wowing triumph on an innately modest scale. Opera Santa Barbara’s charming and sometimes disarmingly deep two-fer production made for the ideal capper in a small but mighty and well-balanced season for this determined, resourceful, artistically upwardly mobile company. With this generous and satisfying twin-engine production, the current OSB season ends on a high note. The stage is set and the appetite is whetted for a new era in Santa Barbara’s musical landscape, operatically speaking.”
– Josef Woodard / SB News-Press
- “An adventurous double-bill, this unlikely program of short operatic works comprised the final productions of the current opera season. The direction from Lawrence Edelson was handled with exceptional sensitivity. As the final applause from enthusiastic audiences winds down, performing arts patrons recall many fine moments at Opera Santa Barbara and look forward with anticipation to the treasures being developed for the year to come.”
– Robert F. Adams / CASA Magazine
Direction
Mark Morash
Mark Morash
Conductor /
A Streetcar Named Desire
April 2015
Conductor / La Serva Padrona
& Trouble in Tahiti
April 2011 (debut)
Lawrence Edelson
Lawrence Edelson
Martin T. Lopez
Martin T. Lopez
Josh Epstein
Josh Epstein
Lighting Designer / Tosca
November 2013
Lighting Designer /
Don Pasquale
April 2013
Lighting Designer /
La Serva Padrona
& Trouble in Tahiti
April 2011 (debut)
Heather Sterling
Heather Sterling
Heather Sterling is an accomplished makeup artist and hair stylist with a wide range of experience that includes work in theater, film, print, and fashion. She is a licensed cosmetologist and has a degree in fine art with an emphasis in psychology. Armed with an extensive knowledge of period makeup and hairstyles, Heather first designed for Opera Santa Barbara in 2006 for the company's performances of Tosca; since then her work has been seen in nearly forty OSB productions. She regularly designs for the Music Academy of the West's summer operas and she recently designed for the Granada Theatre's A Christmas Carol.
Hair & Makeup Designer / Tosca
February 2006 (debut)
Artists
Susannah Biller
Susannah Biller
Ao Li
Ao Li
Daniel Montenegro
Daniel Montenegro
A graduate of San Francisco’s prestigious Adler Fellow Opera Program, American tenor Daniel Montenegro is recognized for his flexible and distinctive voice and a varied repertoire of bel canto, verismo, and contemporary roles.
In 2015, Daniel made his Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and San Diego Opera debuts as Luis (a role he created) in El Pasado Nuca se Termina. Recent seasons include Giovanni (La Hija de Rappaccini) with Gotham Opera and his European opera debut at the Théâtre du Châtelet as Mario in Daniel Catán’s Il Postino along side Plácido Domingo, as well as a number of significant role and company debuts including Roderigo (Otello) with San Francisco Opera under Nicola Luisotti, Alfredo (La Traviata) with New Orleans Opera and Minnesota Opera, Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore) with Washington National Opera, Pang (Turandot) at the Hollywood Bowl conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, Pong (Turandot) with San Francisco Opera and Dallas Opera, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette with Tulsa Opera and the Castleton Festival, and most recently, Mario in Il Postino with Opera Saratoga, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Arizona Opera, and Rafael in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna in his debut with Fort Worth Opera. The 2017-2018 season included a concert of excerpts from La bohème with the Quad City Symphony, Rafael in Cruzar la Cara de la Luna in his debut with both New York City Opera and Houston Grand Opera, and his San Diego opera debut as Arcadio in Florencia en el Amazonas. The 2018-2019 season and beyond sees him as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Columbus, Alfredo in La Traviata with Arizona Opera, Luis in El Pasado Nuca se Termina with Fort Worth Opera, and making a return to San Francisco Opera.
Daniel features on ‘Great Voices Sing John Denver’ alongside Plácido Domingo and many other key operatic names; produced by legendary arranger and music producer Milt Okun, the disc was released on the MRI Associated label in June 2013.
Maya Lahyani
Maya Lahyani
Ryan Kuster
Ryan Kuster
Sara Gartland