23K show up for SF Opera

San Francisco Opera's free Friday night simulcast of Gaetano Donizetti's tragic warhorse "Lucia di Lammermoor" drew about 23,000 people to AT&T Park, according to Opera estimates. It was the second time the company simulcast a production from the the War Memorial Opera House (Camille Saint-Saëns' "Samson and Delilah" was the first, in September).

(San Francisco Chronicle excerpt)

Opera in theatres near you

Peter Gelb, GM of The Met, spoke a bit about the new directions of the opera at the E-G conference I recently attended at the Getty.

Both the Metropolitan Opera and San Francisco Opera are serving up performances locally via the big screen, thoughts?

Go see what you think.

Afterall, when was the last time you experienced Opera and the finest in the industry?