OPERA GALLERY
Opera combines glorious music, beautiful, often extravagant costumes and sets, and singing. What singing! Until you have been to a live performance by an opera singer, you can’t really comprehend the feats a human voice is capable of. These vocal magicians have to fill a theater and be heard over an orchestra, without the benefit of a microphone. Recordings just don’t convey the power and majesty of an operatic voice in full song.
There is acting too, because this is theater, after all, on a grand scale. Operas are the most expensive of the performing arts to produce. If you have ever been to one, you have seen why.
What it all adds up to is heaven for a shooter like me. There is more action, light, color, and sheer fun and drama in operas than in anything else I’ve seen on stage.
I also enjoy shooting singers in recital or a masterclass, just to get knocked out by those voices.
Opera Santa Barbara – “Madama Butterfly”
Music Academy of the West – “La Cenerentola”
Frederica Von Stade , CAMA Santa Barbara
Opera Santa Barbara – “La Bohéme”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Carmen”
Deborah Voigt at the Music Academy of the West
Music Academy of the West – “The Magic Flute”
Opera Santa Barbara – “The Consul”
Music Academy of the West – “The Magic Flute”
Music Academy of the West – “Don Giovanni”
Music Academy of the West – “Albert Herring”
Music Academy of the West – “The Barber of Seville”
Opera Santa Barbara – “The Merry Widow”
Music Academy of the West – “The Italian Straw Hat”
Music Academy of the West – “The Barber of Seville”
Music Academy of the West – “La Bohéme”
Opera Santa Barbara – “L’Elisir d’Amore”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Tosca”
Music Academy of the West – “Carmen”
Ojai Music Festival: “The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)”
Music Academy of the West – “The Barber of Seville”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Falstaff”
Music Academy of the West – “Don Giovanni”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Faust”
Opera Santa Barbara – “The Marriage of Figaro”
Music Academy of the West – “The Marriage of Figaro”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Carmen”
Music Academy of the West – “Il Viaggio a Reims”
Music Academy of the West – Intro to Voice Fellows
Opera Santa Barbara – “Un Ballo in Maschera”
Music Academy of the West – “The Magic Flute
Opera Santa Barbara “The Merry Widow”
Opera Santa Bsrbara – “Don Pasquale”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Pagliacci”
Opera Santa Barbara – “La Serva Padrona”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Seance on a Wet Afternoon”
Opera Santa Barbara “Rigoletto”
Warren Jones Masterclass @ Music Academy of the West
Music Academy of the West – Opera Scenes
Opera Santa Barbara – “La Traviata”
Music Academy of the West – Opera Scenes
Opera Santa Barbara – “Tosca”
Music Academy of the West – Opera Scenes
Music Academy of the West – “The Italian Straw Hat”
Music Academy of the West – “Il Viaggio a Reims”
Opera Santa Barbara, “Viva Verdi”
Opera Santa Barbara – “Tosca” Te Deum
