SAN FRANCISCO OPERA TO BE SEEN ACROSS COUNTRY: BUT NOT IN SF

Performances of four classic operas by the San Francisco Opera Company will be shown over four weekends in March and April in 121 movie theaters across the country, the San Francisco Chronicle reported today (Wednesday). The operas include Puccini's La Rondine, Saint-Saëns's Samson and Delilah, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and Puccini's Madama Butterfly. However, unlike the operas produced by New York's Metropolitan Opera, the San Francisco Opera's performances were shot at the War Memorial Opera House and were later edited and otherwise enhanced in post-production by the distributor, The Bigger Picture. Ironically, the Chronicle pointed out, the performances will not be screened in any theater in San Francisco, Oakland, or Berkeley because of a scarcity of theaters with advanced digital equipment in those cities.

27/02/2008