Through a partnership with UC Berkeley’s Cal Performances, the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, San Francisco Opera brings free indoor simulcasts of Mozart’s Don Giovanni to four locations on Friday, June 22 at 8 pm.
These simulcasts are the first to utilize San Francisco Opera’s new Koret Media Suite, a high-definition video production facility in the War Memorial Opera House. It is the first permanent high-definition (HD) broadcast-standard facility installed in an American opera house. Through state-of-the-art technology the simulcast will be transmitted in 1920x1080 HD via satellite to the three venues live from the stage of San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House.
"I am excited that this one performance of Don Giovanni will reach nearly 9,000 people," said San Francisco Opera’s General Director David Gockley. "I am indebted to Robert Cole at Cal Performances, Rick Bartalini at the Wells Fargo Center, Ken Foster at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Don Roth at the Mondavi Center for their commitment to bring new audiences to opera and the classical arts, and for the extraordinary resources they are contributing towards this partnership."
These simulcasts are free to the public but require a ticket for entrance. To reserve your free tickets, please contact the venues directly, as follows:
Berkeley - SOLD OUT!
Cal Performances, Zellerbach Auditorium
University of California Berkeley
Bancroft Way at Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley
For information contact the Cal Performances Ticket Office at Zellerbach Hall, Telegraph Ave at Bancroft Way, Berkeley, by phone at (510) 642-9988. Phone-reserved tickets will be available at Will Call only; no reserved tickets will be mailed.
Davis - SOLD OUT!
Jackson Hall, Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
University of California Davis
One Shields Avenue, Davis
For information, call the Mondavi Center Ticket Office at (530) 754-2787 or visit www.MondaviArts.org.
Santa Rosa
Ruth Finley Person Theater, Wells Fargo Center for the Arts
(Formerly the Luther Burbank Center)
50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa
Free reserved tickets now available through the Box Office at (707) 546-3600, or visit www.wellsfargocenterarts.com.
San Francisco
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street at Third Street, San Francisco
Free reserved tickets now available at (415) 978-2787 (11 am - 6 pm daily), or in person at the Box Office (open Sun, Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 11 am - pm; Thu 11 am - 8 pm). For information visit www.ybca.org.
