Excuse the number of images, this was just such a fun shoot and great crew.  For the second year I photographed the opera’s campaign of the three performances being staged for the upcoming (2012-13) season.  One scene created for each opera, each at a different and iconic location in SB – The Tea House at the Botanic Gardens for Madama Butterfly, a 1920′s Montecito Mansion (Casa del Herrero) for Don Pasquale, and the ruins of Knapp’s Castle at 3,000′ in the hills for Aida.  Huge thanks to the creative staff, models and crew!

I’ll post the final images soon, these are just the fun snapshots.

It’s the middle of a busy few “opera weeks” as we get ready to stage shoots at multiple locations for three different operas set for the 2012-2013 season:  Madama Buttterfly. Aida. Don Pascuale.  While those epic visuals are being sketched, cast, and logisticisized we’ve just finished shooting location scenes for the last production of the 2011-12 season: Orpheus & Eurydice.

Shown below (top left) is the final ad shot from our fun night exactly a year ago (April 18) for the story of Orpheus.  Now that the actual actors are in town rehearsing from all over the US we carve some time out of their schedule and re-stage a few scenes for PR and promotion. Almost always verticals for covers. And so the gates of Hades have moved from underneath Stearn’s Wharf to the side of the SB Mission.