Janos Gereben:

>He says enhancement, I say project better - let's ban electronics in the
>opera house

I agree.  When the Metropolitan Opera still gave spring tours, the
over-large theatre in Boston was miked, and I minded.  In Milwaukee they
"enhance" the sound in the dead spot in the front right of the hall, and I
would never anywhere near it again.  In Verona last summer, I heard the
first night of their opera festival (Verdi's Requiem, actually) with no
amplification for an enormous Roman stone arena, with attendance of 10,000
(a light night, I think) and although distant, the soprano still amazed me.
(No idea who she was.  I never saw a program.)

Jim tobin