Written by Mary Dan Eades on August 26, 2015
Join us for our Exciting 2015-16 Season as a Season Subscriber and SAVE!
It all starts with Carmina Burana at the Granada on October 17 and 18, 2015. Santa Barbara Choral Society, Santa Barbara Symphony, State Street Ballet, and State Street Ballet join forces to bring Carl Orff’s masterpiece vividly to life.
Once in a generation a performance comes along that is destined to be legendary. This is it. The spectacular Carmina Burana, featuring the breath-taking choreography of State Street Ballet, beautiful voices of the Santa Barbara Choral Society, and heart-pounding music performed by the Santa Barbara Symphony. Simply exquisite!
The evening also includes Maestro Nir Kabaretti conducting the Symphony in Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and JoAnne Wasserman conducting the Choral Society and Symphony in Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
We have a limited number of VIP A-level tickets available for this production held aside for our Season Subscribers. They may be purchased with your SBCS 2015-16 Season Subscription by calling 805.965.6577 before September 14, 2015.
Purchase a Season Ticket* and get 10% off the total ticket price for these three exciting concerts:
Hallelujah Project 3 – A Santa Barbara Family Holiday Classic! – December 12 and 13, 2015
Messiah – 275th Anniversary Year Commemoration – March 18 and 19, 2016
A World of Song – Preview our Italy 2016 International Tour Concert – May 21, 2016
* NOTE: Basic Season Subscription ticket does not include Carmina Burana, but the limited number of seats available can be purchased at face value in advance by our season subscribers!
TO PURCHASE, click here and choose your preferred seating level or call our office at 805-965-6577:
- Discounted Season Subscription for $45 (A-level) seating $121.50*
- Discounted Season Subscription for $35 (B-level) seating $94.50*
- Discounted Season Subscription for $25 (C-level) seating $67.50*
- Youth Season Subscription (ages 7 to 17 with adult) seating $15.00*
*An online convenience fee of 2.75% will be added to online purchases.
You may also phone the office at 805-965-6577 to order by phone and pay by check! Phone orders and mail order offer the additional option of purchasing different numbers of tickets for some concerts and receiving 10% off your entire order.
Click here (Season Ticket Order Form) to download and print an order form form to mail in with your check or credit card information, if you prefer.
American baritone, Ralph Cato has travelled the world extensively, telling stories in song with his warm, clarion baritone voice.
Tenor, Benjamin Brecher has performed over fifty operatic roles with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies, specializing in the high lying lyric tenor repertoire. He has performed 16 roles with New York City Opera alone. Career highlights include performances with Opera Orchestra of New York, L’Opera de Nice, Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, L’Opera de Montreal, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, among many others. His orchestral solo repertoire includes Mozart, Handel, Orff, Bach, Haydn, as well as many performances of Britten. In 2000 he began performing the great Irish Tenor songs in a concert produced for him entitled A Celtic Celebration, Twenty years later, the show has become a North American hit with performances with 45 Symphonies in North America. Ben continues his discography having added his twelfth recording in 2016 Forgotten Liszt, with pianist Robert Koenig, and will record a new release in 2022 entitled “Three Centuries of Thomas Moore” including the music of Britten, Berlioz, and Sarah Gibson on MSR Classics. He is a Professor of Voice at University of California Santa Barbara, where he has served as the Head of Voice.
Born and raised in Southern California, April Amante is a versatile soprano with expertise and facility in repertoire spanning from early music to contemporary musical theater.
Tracy Van Fleet is pleased to return to the Santa Barbara Choral Society. As a soloist, she has performed with the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Lüneburg Symphony in Germany, Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río in Mexico, Pasadena Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Los Angeles Bach Festival, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, Colorado Philharmonic, USC Symphony and Chorus, and others. She has had many appearances with the Los Angeles Opera, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Opera Pacific, San Diego Opera and Opera Colorado.