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HOW big is that screen? Opera at the Ballpark, a free-for-all party San Francisco Opera has been throwing at the Giants venue for a dozen years now, is going to be bigger and better than ever this time around. That’s because Saturday night’s simulcast of the War Memorial Opera House production of Gounod’s “Romeo and Juliet” is going to blaze forth in high-def gargantuan proportions, on Oracle Park’s new 71-foot-high by 153-foot-wide Mitsubishi Electronic Diamond Vision Board. It’s the third largest scoreboard in the major leagues and the biggest movie screen in San Francisco. So those closeups of tenor Pene Pati as Romeo wooing the comely young Nadine Sierra’s Juliet are going to be really close up. The opera starts at 7:30 p.m., but the park opens, first-come, first-seated, at 5:30 p.m. Preregistration is strongly encouraged at sfopera.com/simulcast.
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