Publié par Bonne soirée à l’opéra hier soir. Dommage que l’Opéra de Montréal ait encore fait ses siennes avec ses tentatives de remédier à l’abominable acoustique de la Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier. Ma réaction :
I loathe the horrendous acoustics of Opera de Montreal’s Salle
Wilfrid-Pelletier, and vowed last year never to set foot in this hall
again because of that (it is so bad that the Montreal Symphony Orchestra
built a new hall right next to Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier!). But I so
wanted to see and hear PORGY AND BESS, one of my favorite operas, that I
went to the last show yesterday evening, and overall had a great time.
The sound coming from the stage did seem kind of odd however. A sameness
of volume, whoever was singing… Could not pick out if the singers were
on the left or on the right of the stage… Were my ears playing tricks
with me? So it was with relief that I read the following paragraph in a
review today:
« Unfortunately the aural black mark of the night was again due to
microphones at the foot of the stage. Opéra de Montréal persists with
them despite the unpleasant effect of poorly directed amplification
whenever singers are downstage. Let them project. It’s what professional
singers do. »
- from http://roverarts.com/2014/01/loves-porgy/
So I was not crazy – which is always nice to know . Will return to my
regular boycott of this horrible hall .
(this production was a big hit by the way… just too bad we don’t have
a decent opera house…)