>>127507126 (OP)
I love classical, but half the time I go to a live performance I feel underwhelmed.
Classical performance is hampered by the lack of adoption of amplification. I've paid for mid seats and I literally cannot hear anything during the quiet parts of performances. I saw Beethoven's 5th piano concerto and could barely hear the soloist because he was drowned out by the orchestra.
Instead of just hooking up the instruments to a microphone, they spent millions to renovate the concert hall so that the walls have good acoustics and it still doesn't work. Can we recognize how fucking absurd this is?
I went to see the Firebird and some fucking Russians were 20 feet away from me in an almost totally empty section and their talking was louder than the performance. One time the guy next to me had trouble breathing and his wheezing was distracting during Eroica.
I did very much enjoy Mahler's 6th Symphony, but probably just because it actually was an epic production with a huge orchestra and not many quiet parts.
I've had the same problem maybe once or twice at a Jazz concert where the sound was fucked up and I couldn't hear the soloist properly, but this seems to be a universal thing with Classical, at least at the performances in my city. Instead of being regarded as a sound engineer fuck up, it's just a given that this is the state of things.
Instead of creating stupid gimmicks like in OP, they should focus on just TURNING THE FUCKING SOUND UP. If you can't hear the performance, it is an order of magnitude too quiet
