Please note, in addendum to the traditional Friday evening and Sunday matinee performances, there will be an additional performance on the evening of Tuesday, November 10th
A jester’s sharp tongue. A father’s fierce love. A curse that changes everything.
Tragedy, set in Italy in the 16th century
2 hours and 45 minutes including one intermission
Sung in Italian with English captions projected in LED
STARRING:
Ben Lowe
Oriana Falla
Arnold Geis*
Colin Ramsey
Xeni Tziouvaras*
Packages guarantee the same seats for all three Evening or Matinee performances and subscribers may keep their seating locations for future Opera Santa Barbara seasons
State Street Ballet Young Dancers showcase their skills, performing excerpts from Swan Lake, as well as new choreography by Royce Zackery, Cecily MacDougall, Saori Yamashita, Amber Hirschfield, Audrey Messer, and Allison Gustafson. Featuring live accompaniment by members of the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, conducted by Dr. Daniel Gee.
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Jim Messina
by Erica Ostlander
February 11, 2026
The show highlights Messina’s musical career over the decades, including Buffalo Springfield, Poco, and Loggins & Messina. Jim performed with and was the producer/audio engineer for Buffalo Springfield, as well as a founding member of the group Poco. Then he and Kenny Loggins became the duo that sold more than 20 million albums and released hits like “Danny’s Song,” “Your Mama Don’t Dance,” “House on Pooh Corner” and “Angry Eyes.”
After a series of celebrated solo acoustic tours, Jim formed a band made of acclaimed musicians who have played with him at various points in his career. With his new band, The Road Runners, Jim released his latest live album Here, There & Everywhere. Touring the country and playing sold-out shows, Jim says that he’s enjoying discovering who he is, where he’s been and, most significantly, where he’s going.
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ALOK
by Josh James
February 5, 2026
This event is a rental, not a Lobero presentation.
In their new standup show, ALOK keeps finding themself in hairy situations: being mistaken as a mega-famous Brazilian DJ, botching TikTok makeup tutorials, and signing up for an appointment at the European Wax Center. This unmissable evening is flippant and fabulous, wicked sharp, and delightfully silly.
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Rush Tribute
by Josh James
January 29, 2026
The Rush Tribute Project, performing MOVING PICTURES in its entirety – bringing to life beloved hits “Tom Sawyer,” “Red Barchetta,” “YYZ,” and “Limelight.”
The Rush Tribute Project brings two full sets of music, including other greatest hits, as well as deep cuts like “La Villa Strangiato” and “Entre Nous,” performed with vintage instruments, multi-camera projection, lasers, and spectacular lighting.
Don’t miss this electrifying immersive tribute to Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Rush!
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Prime Time Band Spring Concert: Legendary Movie Music and More
by Erica Ostlander
January 28, 2026
Travel with the Prime Time Band on a grand musical journey as you relive the grandeur of epic movie themes from the ’60s and ’70s. Award winning scores from such films as Lawrence of Arabia and Romeo and Juliet will thrill you, along with many other musical surprises from jazz and pop to classics. Discover Epic Journeys – Nostalgia and More in this FREE concert as dynamic director Dr. Paul Mori brings enthusiasm, charisma and energy to the podium.
Prime Time Band is a vibrant group of more than seventy-five amateur musicians (ages 40-90+) with a mission to provide free concerts for the greater Santa Barbara Community. Highlights of the 2026 concert schedule year include the 4th of July Concert at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, an outdoor September Stow House Concert, a November Fall Concert and a Downtown Holiday Concert and Sing-Along on the steps of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in December.
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Gerald Clayton Trio
by Josh James
January 19, 2026
**PLEASE NOTE – This performance has been rescheduled from its original date on 04/14/2026 – all previously purchased tickets will still be valid for the new performance date**
Six-time GRAMMY®-nominated pianist, composer, and band leader Gerald Clayton earned recent Recording Academy recognition for Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard, his debut release on Blue Note Records. Collaborating over the years with such distinctive artists as Diana Krall, Roy Hargrove, Dianne Reeves, Terence Blanchard, John Scofield, Terri Lyne Carrington, Peter Bernstein, Ambrose Akinmusire, Gretchen Parlato, Ben Wendel, the Clayton Brothers Quintet and legendary band leader Charles Lloyd, Clayton currently serves as Director of Next Generation Jazz Orchestra following service as Musical Director for Monterey Jazz Festival On Tour. Clayton’s creative spirit honors the legacy of his father, bassist-composer John Clayton.
Do you want access to exclusive pre-sales and discounted tickets while supporting jazz, blues, American roots, and music education?
In late 2024, prolific guitarist Julian Lage embarked on an intense writing sprint that led to Scenes from Above, a new project forged for a special quartet featuring steadfast bassist Jorge Roeder, dynamic drummer Kenny Wollesen, and vaunted keyboardist John Medeski — close collaborators who had never before recorded together. The music emphasizes interaction, restraint, and real-time discovery over virtuoso display.
Produced by Joe Henry, the album marks a shift from Lage’s large-ensemble ambitions toward a deeply egalitarian band dynamic, drawing inspiration from folkloric traditions, blues, and global song forms. The result is an intimate, vivid listening experience: four dazzling musicians sharing space, listening closely, and shaping music that feels both spontaneous and purposefully alive.
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Branford Marsalis Quartet: Saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music. The NEA Jazz Master, GRAMMY® Award winner, and Tony and EMMY Award nominee is equally at home performing concertos with symphony orchestras and sitting in with members of the Grateful Dead, but the core of his musical universe remains the Branford Marsalis Quartet. After more than three decades of existence with minimal personnel changes, this celebrated ensemble is revered for its uncompromising interpretation of a kaleidoscopic range of both original compositions and jazz and popular classics.
After receiving GRAMMY® nominations on its last two albums, Upward Spiral and The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, the Quartet made its Blue Note Records debut with the release of Belonging, a full album interpretation of Keith Jarrett’s 1974 ECM album of the same name. The New York Times commented “Marsalis has tackled imposing jazz masterworks before…but at its best, his ‘Belonging’ goes deeper…its a performance that both honors and amplifies.” John Zeugner captured the impact of the Quartet in a review of a live performance, calling it “casually confident, professional, cerebral, and supercharged with energy. The Branford Marsalis Quartet… was all of those adjectives and more.”
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Through an inimitable voice that The New York Times touts as, “a smooth, dark alto possessed of qualities you might associate with barrel-aged bourbon or butter-soft leather,” acclaimed vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright sings with a soaring reflection of the cultural fabric of America. Wright is one of the great modern American singers, with an illustrious 20-year career transcending social divides with her offer of love and deep sense of humanity.
Rooted in her Southern upbringing and shaped by more than two decades on the world’s stages, Wright’s sound is both grounded and expansive — anchored by acoustic textures, rich harmonies, and emotional honesty. Audiences can expect an evening of profound musical storytelling that honors tradition while embracing reflection, healing, and connection.
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The Santa Barbara-based Doublewide Kings have earned their reputation as one of the South Coast’s most beloved live acts, delivering a unique blend of original music and classic covers that brings new energy to roots-rock, Americana, country-blues, and the glory days of ’70s FM radio. Known for their tight harmonies, masterful musicianship, and infectious stage presence, the Kings create a joyful, high-energy experience that keeps audiences dancing and singing along from the first note to the last.
This special evening supports the More Mesa Preservation Coalition, a dedicated group of concerned citizens working to preserve More Mesa as public open space. For over 25 years, MMPC has championed this treasured 325-acre coastal landscape, beloved by hikers, runners, beach goers, dog walkers, birdwatchers, cyclists, and equestrians.
More Mesa stands at a critical crossroads. While 36 acres were recently protected through a conservation easement, the remaining 265 acres of privately-owned land – including the entire coastal bluff-top – remains vulnerable to development and is currently on the market for $65 million. The More Mesa Preservation Coalition is now gearing up for an ambitious campaign to acquire and permanently protect More Mesa as public open space for current and future generations.
Please join us for an unforgettable night of music while supporting one of Santa Barbara’s most important conservation efforts – it’s time to Save More Mesa!
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Santa Barbara Flyfishers – A River Runs Through It
by Josh James
January 12, 2026
An authoritative panel including Tom Skerritt, lead in the film, and viewpoints representing the arts, conservation, fly-fishing, and indigenous perspectives, followed by a one-time screening.
Panelists scheduled to appear include:
Tom Skerrit. Actor. Conservationist. River advocate.
Eric Ladd. American Rivers Board. Chairman, Outlaw Partners.
John Maclean, Journalist and author, son of author Norman Mclean.
Kayeloni Scott. Executive Director – Columbia/Snake River Campaign
Chris Wood. President & CEO of Trout Unlimited.
Since its release more than 30 years ago, no film has impacted fly-fishing and the rivers and streams essential to the sport more than Robert Redford’s cinematic adaption of Norman Maclean’s “A River Runs Through it”. Santa Barbara Flyfishers will host a panel to explore the direct and indirect impacts this landmark film has had on our precious waters and rivers and the people that fish them.
“A River Runs Through It” elevated fly-fishing from a quiet, regional pastime to a national and international movement. It reshaped the business, aesthetic and emotional identity of the sport, bringing in new people, new money and new meaning.
As Norman Maclean wrote…”Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
At 5:00 PM there will also be a VIP “First Look” Reception before the panel discussion to meet the panelists and have a private viewing of footage from a new Rivers Project Tom Skerritt is developing. Reception requires a ticket.
All donations go to Santa Barbara Flyfishers to support the initiatives for conservation and education, including the generational program to “Save Santa Barbara Steelhead.”
Having chalked up more than fifty years at the peak of the music and entertainment industry, Justin Hayward’s voice and guitar playing has been heard the world over. Known principally as the vocalist, lead guitarist and composer for The Moody Blues, he is an enduring talent that has helped to define the times in which he worked.
Possessing one of the most distinctive voices in rock music, as well as being the driving force behind The Moody Blues, Justin penned classics like “Nights in White Satin,” “Question,” “New Horizons,” “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “Story In Your Eyes,” “The Voice,” and “Your Wildest Dreams.”
Over the last five and a half decades, the band has sold upwards of fifty-five million albums and, along with Justin as a solo artist and writer, received numerous awards. The Moody Blues was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018, whilst Justin was personally honored in 2022 with an OBE. He’ll be performing with a full band, holding a live Q & A, and sharing stories from his seminal music career.
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Eco Hero Award 2026
by Josh James
January 7, 2026
A fun and interactive evening with Brock Dolman & Kate Lundquist, recipients of the 6th Annual Eco Hero Award, who will join us in person for the event. Transformative advocates for beaver, salmon & the watersheds they inhabit, we will share past & present accomplishments & stories of their work over the decades. Both Brock & Kate will have time for short talks, and will encourage a robust Q&A session. A reception follows, with more time for conversation, local groups tabling, & our traditional Empanada buffet in the Lobero Courtyard.
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If you purchase from any other vendor, your tickets may not be valid. If a show is cancelled or postponed, you may not receive proper notification or reimbursement. The Lobero Theatre is not responsible for tickets purchased through vendors other than our website or those sellers that we have authorized.
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The Lobero is California’s only historic performing arts venue that is Green Business Certified!
As stewards of this beloved building, we are continually working on ways to reduce the theater’s carbon footprint and create a sustainable business model for the future.
