Gerald Carpenter

Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) next production will be “The Marriage of Figaro” (1786), with music by Wolfgang Mozart, and a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the 1784 play of the same name by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732 -99). “Figaro” plays at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 23 in the Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara. While both performances are sold out, visit here to be notified in the event tickets are returned.

For the next event in their International Series, the Community Arts-Music Association (CAMA) has teamed up with the Music Academy of the West to co-sponsor bringing to town one of the world’s greatest ensembles, the London Symphony Orchestra, for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, in the Granada Theater. The London Symphony will be conducted by its new chief conductor Sir Antonio Pappano, with stellar Dutch fiddler Janine Jansen as guest soloist.

The Santa Barbara Symphony invites audiences to rediscover comedy’s golden age as Charlie Chaplin’s groundbreaking 1925 film ‘The Gold Rush” (now celebrating its first 100 years) is projected on the big screen at the Granada Theatre.