Design Observation Blog - Stadium Opera

The draft feature on blogspot makes me lazy, this is one of a few I started and then left to age into irrelevance.

Some of my roommates and family friends attended the simulcast of Il Trovatore at ATT field September 19th. While being a bit cold, it was definitely my way to experience culture, in street clothes and eating garlic fries, and free to boot. The sheer number of people in attendance numbering, around 25,000 I believe, is a testament to the cultural involvement of San Francisco, that or there are lots of people with a love for overcrowded stadium events. or garlic fries. It was a lot of fun and made me think about multiple purpose spaces, how can spaces of gathering be used/ adjusted for events of very different intents. Food culture has changed even the offerings at baseball games, sushi is readily available along a with wine selection and "bistro" options. So isn't there already an intersection occurring? And as stadiums become more and more designed and lavish, where do we leave behind the gritty all american aspect of the game? but it makes me think if high culture is changing pop culture or the other way around.