Built in 1884, Northampton’s Royal Theatre was designed by the renowned Victorian theatre architect C J Phipps, who also designed such prestigious venues as the Theatre Royal Bath, Theatre Royal Glasgow and Edinburgh’s Lyceum.
The issue of sound reinforcement for opera and classical music is still a rather thorny one with many aficionados of those art forms. So how do you approach providing the best quality sound reinforcement in one of the word’s most historic and architecturally delicate opera venues? You ask Yamaha to help.
The history of Sweden’s Royal Dramatic Theatre (or Dramaten) is a long and complex one. Originally established by King Gustav III in 1788, after an eventful 120 years the theatre moved to its present home in 1908, the Art Nouveau building in Nybroplan, Stockholm. Since then, Dramaten has gone from strength to strength and recently its six stages (five in house, one at the satellite Östermalm site) had a major refit with Yamaha equipment, giving audiences at this most historic venue all the benefits of a 21st century audio experience.
It was back in the autumn of 2000 that a pre-production model of Yamaha’s PM1D digital mixing console quietly made its way out of the Brixton offices of sound rental company Orbital and headed to London EC1.
You can forget everything you know about sound installations with a clear conscience. An acoustic engineer from the renowned Wroclaw University of Technology and a sound engineer from the equally reputed audio company M.Ostrowski are breaking new ground with the installation of a new PA system in the Wroclaw opera house: a system that has about as much in common with conventional PA systems as the Starship Enterprise has with the first flying machines.
The destruction of the old Price circus left a gap in Madrid and in Spain until last Christmas when a new
combined circus and theatre house, equipped with the latest state of the art audio facilities opened in the city.
This new venue marks Madrid out as being one of the few capital cities in the world to have such a dedicated
multi-functional cultural building boasting one of the biggest stage enclosures in Europe.
Spring 2007 has seen London’s internationally acclaimed Young Vic theatre reopening after a major three year redevelopment project. Integral to the rebuilding of the theatre premises has been a radical overhaul of the backstage and technical facilities, which includes a Yamaha M7CL-48 installed as the main front of house console.
