In what might qualify as an unlikely artistic collaboration, the San Francisco Opera and Oakland’s industrial arts center, The Crucible team up to stage a pyrotechnic version of Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas.” Spark visits The Crucible’s cavernous warehouse as The Crucible director Michael Sturtz and San Francisco Opera director Roy Rallo are preparing to unveil something never before seen — the world’s first fire opera.

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