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:
.. 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
> All:
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.
> Angelo Campanella
Kind regards
Peter Larsen