San Francisco Opera has unveiled a highly sophisticated new multimedia setup that will allow it to vastly expand the menu of technological accoutrements it offers with its staged productions. “The company has put together the first high-definition video production facility built into an opera house in the United States. [The setup] provides the Opera with the latest tools to produce simulcasts, radio programs, DVDs, podcasts and other emerging electronic forms. Streaming pay-per-view opera broadcasts may be in the cards.”