Active Field Control in the Teatr Wielki—Opera Narodowa

Watanabe T, Miyazaki H, Sawara S, Ikeda M, Bakker R. Active Field Control in the Teatr Wielki—Opera Narodowa. In: AES Convention 138. Audio Engineering Society; 2015. Paper 9330. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17754

@inproceedings{Watanabe2015_17754,
  author = {Watanabe, Takayuki and Miyazaki, Hideo and Sawara, Shinichi and Ikeda, Masahiro and Bakker, Ron},
  title = {{Active Field Control in the Teatr Wielki—Opera Narodowa}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 138},
  note = {Paper 9330},
  year = {2015},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17754}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Active Field Control in the Teatr Wielki—Opera Narodowa
AU  - Watanabe, Takayuki
AU  - Miyazaki, Hideo
AU  - Sawara, Shinichi
AU  - Ikeda, Masahiro
AU  - Bakker, Ron
T2  - AES Convention 138
M1  - Paper 9330
PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/05/06
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - This opera house of 1,828 seats boasts one of Europe's largest stages and is highly reputed for its repertoire and acoustics. However, it presented a number of issues including poor communication between the singers and the orchestra pit, insufficient loudness of the upstage singers for the audience, a lack of reverberation when the house was occupied, and insufficient loudness at the seats under the balconies. For these reasons Active Field Control System (AFC) was adopted as a means to improve the acoustics while preserving the historic architecture of the opera house. This paper presents an overview of that system and the benefits achieved by its introduction.
ER  -