This was a great series of images to shoot – creating scenes from three upcoming operas in iconic Santa Barbara outdoor locations.  The brochure was revealed Sunday at the Opera’s fundraising gala and the images will be used for their print, web and broadcast ads as well as playbills and posters in the theater.

For La Boheme, a tragic love story, the courthouse tower at twilight became the icy  garett in Paris as they first fall in love.

The topiary gardens of the LotusLand estate serve as the playful backdrop for mistaken identities in the humorous garden scene in The Marriage of Figaro.

And Stearn’s Wharf, that is the underside of the wharf, became the gates of hell as the hero emerges from Hades with his love behind him – he can’t look at her or she is doomed to return to the underworld…you can guess how it ends.

Below are some outtakes from the shoots and a behind the scenes look at the great cast and crew!

Some previous outtakes and awesome light tests were posted earlier here.

EDIT: 30 sec commercial :-)