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San Francisco Opera to Simulcast Samson et Dalila Performance to Giants' AT&T Park
May 22, 2007
San Francisco Opera has announced that it plans to present a free, live simulcast of Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila on September 28, to San Francisco Giants' AT&T Park via the venu's 3,200-square-foot high-definition scoreboard-screen.
The screen, the highest quality outdoor scoreboard in the nation,
will broadcast the performance featuring Russian mezzo Olga Borodina
and tenor Clifton Forbis in the opera's title roles; joining them are
Finnish bass-baritone Juha Uusitalo and Merola Opera Program alum Oren
Gradus. Patrick Summers will conduct the company's Nicolas Joël
production, directed for the stage by Sandra Bernhard.
Announced by San Francisco Opera general director David Gockley and
San Francisco Giants executive vice president and chief operating
officer Larry Baer during a home plate ceremony preceding Monday
night's game, the simulcast will feature both field and grandstand
seating. Tickets will be required for entrance into the stadium.
"As someone with a lifelong love of baseball and a passion for
opera," said Gockley, in a press release issued by the company, "I am
so grateful to Larry Baer and to the Giants organization for this
partnership. Working together, these two San Francisco institutions are
able to offer the chance of a lifetime for the entire Bay Area —
glorious opera in the world’s most beautiful ballpark. I'll see you
there!"
Gockley, who has now served as the company's general director for
slightly more than one year, has made free, live simulcasts of the
Opera's offerings a touchstone of his nascent tenure, having already
presented simulcasts last summer of Madama Butterfly and Rigoletto
to audiences in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza and Stanford
University's Frost Amphitheatre. Likewise, the company recently
announced plans for a June 22 simulcast of its production of Don Giovanni
to three venues: Cal Performances at U.C. Berkeley, U.C. Davis' Mondavi
Center for the Performing Arts and the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
in Santa Rosa. 
More information can be found at San Francisco Opera.
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