Organization

Stage director

Layna Chianakas

Conductor

Kostis Protopapas

Set designer

Yuki Izumihara

Lighting designer

Helena Kuukka

Singer

Soprano

Eleni Calenos

Floria Tosca

Tenor

Adam Diegel

Mario Cavaradossi

Baritone

Wayne Tigges

Baron Scarpia

Bass

Colin Ramsey

Cesare Angelotti

Sciarrone

Ben Lowe

The sacristan

Matthew Peterson

Spoletta

Opera Santa Barbara

Orchestra

Santa Barbara Symphony

Italian

Tosca

Santa Barbara

United States

The Granada Theatre

Tosca Puccini

Public

English

Approved

Eleni Calenos in Opera Santa Barbara’s 2022 production of Puccini’s Tosca. Video by Zach Mendez.

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Tosca Giacomo Puccini

“Opera Santa Barbara is off and running, scoring a hit with Tosca.”
Read Josef Woodard’s review in the Santa Barbara Independent here.

The great diva has it all: beauty, talent, friends in high places, love, and an unshakeable faith in God.  She lives a charmed life, blissfully unaware of the dystopia that surrounds her.  All that will change in one harrowing day and night, in Puccini’s nail-biting melodrama.

Soprano Eleni Calenos last seen in OSB’s Madama Butterfly in 2019 returns to the Granada stage to sing the titular diva. The painter Mario Cavaradossi will be portrayed by Adam Diegel who thrilled Santa Barbara audiences at our 25th anniversary Gala concert. The imposing chief of police, Baron Scarpia will be sung by Wayne Tigges, who sang John Proctor in our production of The Crucible in 2019. Layna Chianakas returns to direct our season opening after a successful double bill of Il Tabarro/ El amor brujo last season at the Lobero. The scenic and projection design for our unique production is created by Yuki Izumihara who wowed audiences with her designs in our production of Semele earlier this year. Artistic and General Director Kostis Protopapas conducts his first Tosca with our Opera Santa Barbara Orchestra and Chorus in full force.

Tosca by Puccini, From (2022/2022), Directed by Layna Chianakas,, Conductor Kostis Protopapas, The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, United States

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