Jazzy skrev:
Skulle ikke forundre meg om du har hele Wagners Nibelungens ring på metall oksyd kassetter! ;D
Ihr Wunsch sei mir Befehl!
14 kassetter.
Vet ikke om Mime, men her er anlegget til Wagner, han brukte minimum 100 musikere, og hadde tilgang til et kor på over 100 sangere, i tillegg til solister. Han bedrev også en del room correction.
Det sies at det er bra lyd. Men et krevende anlegg å kjøre:
High above, just under the rim of the lip is the conductor's stand, next to which are three big lights: green, orange and red like a traffic light.
Green means the musicians can chat normally, orange signals the start of the tune-up, while red calls for absolute silence as the lights in the auditorium go down.
This evening's conductor, German maestro Sebastian Weigle, has arrived casually dressed like the rest of the orchestra, and he shakes hands with some of the musicians as he makes his way to his stand.
Because the pit is invisible from the auditorium, his arrival goes unnoticed by the audience.
The tuning over, the red light comes on and the temperature starts to rise in the dark, enclosed space. A few of the brass players put earplugs in: it gets very loud down here.
Once the overture is over and the singing starts, the voices onstage sound very far off down here, as if in a different room entirely.
That makes it near impossible for the musicians to gauge exactly how loudly or softly they should play, making them totally dependent on cues from the conductor.
At the end of Act I, about 80 minutes later, the reporter is more than happy to be released back into the fresh air and daylight, eardrums battered by Wagner's strident score, vision fuzzy from concentration and from the gloom and heat of the pit.
The musicians, too, are enjoying the relative peace and quiet, sitting in the outdoor enclosure, eyes closed, arms stretched behind their heads, others smoking and sharing a joke with colleagues.
They have exactly one hour before they go back into the Festspielhaus's nerve centre, its beating, pulsating heart, the magic cauldron where the glorious sounds of Bayreuth are conjured up.