

On Saturday, October 1, at The Granada Theatre (note 6 p.m.

Under the intrepid and resourceful guidance of Opera Santa Barbara’s head, Kostis Protopapas, opera has gone to the drive-in and into various humbler and alternative side routes, and finally returned in grand form to the Granada with La Traviata in June. It can be said that over the last two-plus years of perilous times for culture in Santa Barbara, opera has been down but never out. | Credit: Zach Mendez Read all of the stories in our “Fall’s Cultural Harvest” cover here. In rehearsal for Opera Santa Barbara’s October 1 performance of Tosca are Wayne Tigges as Scarpia, and Eleni Calenos as Tosca.
