Lucrezia Borgia

I directed the  SF Opera presentation, Lucrezia Borgia starring Renee Fleming. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area watch it on KQED's Life channel next Monday at 7 pm. Comcast channel 189 and Digital channel 54.3. Check out the DVD reviews  http://www.amazon.com/Donizetti-Lucrezia-Borgia-Featuring-Francisco/dp/B00FABG404  Enjoy!

July 5, SF Opera Simulcast

I am ready for the simulcast at AT&T tomorrow, Saturday, July 5 at 8pm.  We will have 11 cameras  covering the the opera, La Traviata.   At 10:30 AM, I am heading out with Jess and Mark  to check the playback of the rehearsal capture in 29 x 9 and see how the lighting looks and how the scoreboard is color balanced. After that we will head back to have a meeting with our camera crew and go over the many notes for this live broadcast to the thousands at AT&T Park.  The screen is 101 feet high and 31 feet wide, so it is wider than cinemascope.  We have special masks installed on our camera viewfinders so the camera operators will frame properly.  It will be a challenge tomorrow because there are 3 new principles playing Alfredo, Violetta and Alfredo's dad, Germont.  In our scratch tape, they all move differently and act differently than the former cast we rehearsed with.  It's good that I am going in early tomorrow to talk to the crew and update the shot sheets.  I have given notes to the stage AD and lighting director and makeup and wig department.  It's going to be fun!

This will be my 7th, Simulcast for SF Opera and my 9th overall (Seattle Opera May 2012 and Opera Company of Philadelphia Oct. 2012)