OSB Not Clowning Around

Opera Santa Barbara’s latest production, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with conductor Kostis Protopapas at the Lobero, was a triumph!

Under director Octavio Cardenas, New York-based tenor Robert Stahley as the principal character and Los Angeles-based soprano Alaysha Fox as Nedda were quite superb, with baritones Ben Lowe as Taddeo and local resident Matthew Peterson as Silvio, and Santa Barbara-based tenor Benjamin Brecher as Harlequin well on par.

Daniel Chapman, set and projection designer, also deserves kudos for his creative design of the 85-minute production, as well as Heather Sterling for her wigs and colorful circus makeup.

Next up Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in February…