Opera at the Ballpark: Tech Meets Baseball Meets Opera


	Opera at the Ballpark: Tech Meets Baseball Meets Opera

LorisKnight

9-30-2007 11:12 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a0163f33-fd7f-43b3-9138-d75ee37c9dd2/AF43DE4E-C4B4-4A5D-9981-D097D37CEA33/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/09/opera-at-the-ba.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/09/opera-at-the-ba.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/09/opera-at-the-ba.html"><P><A href="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/29/ba_opera01049lh.jpg"><IMG border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/29/ba_opera01049lh.jpg" title="Ba_opera01049lh" alt="Ba_opera01049lh" class="image-full" /></A>It was a mashup you'd only find in San
  Francisco: technology, Giants baseball, and opera. (Yes, <ST1:CITY _moz-userdefined=""><ST1:PLACE _moz-userdefined=""></ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>San Francisco is known for
its opera. In 1984, Luciano Pavarotti said, "This is my second hometown.
Musically, it is my first.")<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P>
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/09/opera-at-the-ba.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P>And so it's no surprise that over 15,000 people showed up to
sit in the bleachers and on the field at <A href="http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/ballpark/index.jsp">AT&T Park</A> and watch a live
simulcast of the <A href="http://sfopera.com/">San Francisco Opera</A>'s final performance of Samson and Delilah on
the park's 3,200-square-foot, hi-def scoreboard.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2007/09/opera-at-the-ba.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P>I headed to the park with some friends and—despite the
chilly, chilly weather—had a fantastic time. The free event was a homerun whether
you were there to marvel at the tech that made the simulcast happen, run the
bases (which I did and loved), or simply to enjoy the show.<O:P _moz-userdefined=""></O:P></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF43DE4E-C4B4-4A5D-9981-D097D37CEA33/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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