Head Mic makes its way into Italian Outdoor Opera (Verona)

[Angelo Campanella]

All:

In my meandering into Facebook, I found this recent photo series on a recent
outdoor (Verona) performance of "Tosca", where one Mario Velucci provided
numerous audience and backstage photos at:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=83531&id=1702655281&comments=&alert=#/photo.php?pid=83545&id=1702655281&comments=

.. Prominent is the apparently now standard boom mic. See Mario's photos
11-14) .
This of course is the remedy for good amplification without feedback...

Is it now inevitable that this mode will make its way into classical
opera "anywhere"?....... I wonder............
Angelo Campanella

[Peter Larsen]

Post by Angelo Campanella
In my meandering into Facebook, I found this recent photo series on a
recent outdoor (Verona) performance of "Tosca", where one Mario
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=83531&id=1702655281&comments=&alert=#/photo.php?pid=83545&id=1702655281&comments=
.. Prominent is the apparently now standard boom mic. See Mario's
photos 11-14) .
This of course is the remedy for good amplification without
feedback...
Is it now inevitable that this mode will make its way into classical
opera "anywhere"?....... I wonder............

I fear it, the audiences are getting less used to - and less able to -
listen and the voice artists are getting "mundfaul" and used to not using
dynamics due to the exposure to large amounts of compressed speech in radio
and television.

Post by Angelo Campanella
Angelo Campanella

Kind regards

Peter Larsen