Thursday, November 30, 2006
Opera Finds a Larger Audience
Projection, Lights and Staging News: "A giant screen, with projection equipment provided by Scharff Weisberg, was set up in the Lincoln Center plaza for a simulcast of the Puccini opera, Madama Butterfly, staged by director Anthony Minghella. The Panasonic, NASDAQ and Reuters screens at Times Square also beamed the production to a blocked-off section of Times Square. The outdoor crowd at Lincoln Center was estimated at 3,000 people. "
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It's good to broadcast the live performace outside the theatre. The audience who want to see the peroformacne but don't get ticket can also see it though the visiual effect is different.
But the giant screen may cause a bad result. People don't buy ticket for going inside the theatre ! just watch the screen like watching TV and film.
Anyway, opera fans usually perfer the live performance to enjoy tenor's charm.
Another rather prevalent use for the big screens lately has been in concerts. Almost everyone now has two or more huge tvs off to the side of the stage so they can do closeups on the singers.
Madonna had a HUGE high-def screen that literally took up the entire back of the stage. sometimes they projected scenes, but other times it was just them singing...but really big.
LED drops and other such things are becoming very common. They cause huge challenges for riggers and are really really expensive, but well worth the effort and added cost.
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