A "A Night at the Opera” is one of The Bay Citizen's first experiments in "Citizen Journalism."
Part of The Bay Citizen’s mission to build and engage in the community around us. And so we've teamed up with the San Francisco Opera to be their “online media sponsor” for “Opera in the Ballpark,” which is happening on Friday.
We're in the camera room with Calvin Roberts, Michael Santy, Ray Gilberti, Gerry Garocki, Chris Dulmage and Douglas Hunt. They're joking around, but in some 25 minutes they'll be in the zone broadcasting the show live.
"We're like robots running robots in here," Hunt jokes. But what happens when something unpredictable happens -- say an actor exits the stage left instead of right? "Everything goes really fast, and sometimes it's challenging," says Hunt, "but you always have that extra technical millisecond."
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