Moscow, Russia (May 17, 2017)—The Astrakhan Opera and Ballet company’s production of The Damnation of Faust, recently earned a nomination for the country’s national theatre award, The Golden Mask. Helping bring the famed opera to every seat in Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre was an Allen & Heath’s dLive S Class mixing system, provided by MixArt.
The production’s dLive system consisted of a DM48 MixRack and S3000 Surface, which was used as the FOH and monitor system. A DX32 expander rack was installed in the orchestra pit to enable local connection of multiple orchestra microphones, and the DM48 was equipped with a Waves network card to allow multitrack recording and virtual soundcheck. There was also an IP8 remote controller to manage special sound FX and playback.
“At rehearsals and at the last rehearsal, I controlled the dLive system using the S3000 installed in the center of the audience,” said Vadim Shcherbakov, director of MixArt’s Southern branch. “Before the performance, we put the S3000 backstage, and I managed the sound using only a laptop with dLive Director and an iPad with the MixPad app.”
“In opera, it’s very important that technical innovations do their work without impacting on the character of sound,” remarked Valery Voronin, the art director and chief conductor of the Astrakhan Theater of Opera and Ballet. “I still believe in the old-fashioned idea that opera is better off without sound reinforcement, so I was especially happy to hear clear and natural sound.”
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