<div dir="ltr">I have worked peripherally with video conductor monitors for opera in our space at Simpson College where Pote Theatre features a thrust stage with the acting area closest to the audience, DOWNSTAGE of the orchestra pit. DMMO uses the space in the same way during the summer. <div><br></div><div>Anyway, both DMMO and the Music at Simpson companies have until now REFUSED to use flat-screen monitors because they insist that there are latency issues...they have a stable of tube-style monitors. Even if one could assure them that there are no longer latency issues, I am sure that there are conductors/singers, etc who would perceive them.</div><div><br></div><div>Since Opera is about the Singing, the parasitic light from the monitor FOH is just something that must be accepted...or so I am also told.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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opera I'm lighting in Vermont:</p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">"I had planned to place
a camera in the orchestra, connected to monitors similar to what
we've used for our fall operas, this year using one large and two
smaller monitors up on blocks not far from the stage... but
Maestro isn't crazy about that idea -- he thinks having them on
the floor close to the stage will make it too obvious that singers
are looking at them.</p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;display:block;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">"He asked if we could
mount them on the ho<span class="m_-120783562333293308text_exposed_show" style="display:inline;font-family:inherit">use R & L
walls from the sconces! But I don't have flat screen monitors,
and when I looked into it it was very expensive to find ones
that worked for this purpose with no delays.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px 0px 6px;font-family:inherit">"He may well
have to be happy with what we've got, but I figured I'd explore
the possibility that Jeff knows of somewhere in Boston area
where they use monitors that we could borrow/rent?"</p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">I don't, as a
matter of fact (although I'll check with 4Wall-Boston and High
Output on Monday). Anyone have any other ideas?</p>
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<p style="margin:6px 0px;font-family:inherit">The fact that
they would light up the audience quite nicely during blackouts
is another issue entirely, of course.</p>
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