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Around 1998, still in college, I started collecting Final Fantasy music in earnest.

The crowd went wild in the presence of their hero. The first was just for showing up: Right before the music began, he emerged from the wings, walking to his audience seat from the front of the house, under a spotlight, smiling broadly. This is Uematsu's second standing ovation of the night.

The man of the hour, Final Fantasy music composer Nobuo Uematsu, takes the stage and the applause gets even louder. This is a world-class opera singer, pouring her emotional weight into videogame music.Īs the 12-minute "opera scene" comes to its thunderous conclusion, the sold-out crowd rises as one for a standing ovation. But when soprano Leah Crocetto begins singing the opera's signature aria, the laughter stops and the crowd sits silent, millions of goosebumps raising in unison. It's a familiar scene from the 1994 videogame Final Fantasy VI, in which the role-playing game's characters take a break from adventuring to perform in an opera. On a massive projection screen suspended above the concert stage, a pixelized conductor is waving his hands, too, conducting an orchestra of sprites. Waving his baton in front of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, clad in long tails that almost reach the floor, his long ponytail bobbing behind him, he most definitely is one. SAN FRANCISCO - Arnie Roth, in every way, looks the part of an orchestral conductor.