Quoting from another post:
> And on a similar subject, the Alagnas were involved > recently in a contract cancellation dispute, > allegedly because the opera house refused to use > some sort of voice enhancing equipment that the > Alagnas use regularly all over the world.
Okay, does anybody know the answer to these rumors of secret miking? I have heard from good authority (singers in the San Francisco opera chorus) that SF uses an elaborate system of "enhancing" their stars. SF administration vigorously denies that any miking system is used. I have heard the same thing at the Met -- aside from the charges that Kathleen Battle and Cecilia Bartoli were miked as part of their contracts (their voices being too small to carry naturally), the idea that a system of "enhancement" is used more generally. Everybody knows about NYCO's public use of miking -- but is it true that the other houses use secret miking systems as well?
The European company who loaned NYCO their equipment have been quoted making cryptic comments about how this isn't the first big opera company to use their systems, just the first big one to admit it.
Does anybody really know the answer to this, or have any other information? It's been driving me crazy, since different authorities say different things. Sometimes I've gone to see something at SF or the Met and sworn they were miking the soprano, for instance -- then the next night, same seat, same singer, it sounds totally different and not miked. I'm baffled.
Isabelle B.
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