This was rapidly changed to Horus and RAVENNA once the advantages of the networked approach became obvious. Pyramix was already central to the audio recording and editing but using the earlier Mykerinos cards.
#Merging pyramix advanced video codec key archive#
Initially just doing simple archive recordings of the performances, in 2006 there was a need to do multitrack recordings for radio and in 2007, a broadcast video suite was installed. The responsibility for the technical success of the drive-in fell to Doug Mitchell who has been with the San Francisco Opera since 2001 and has overseen the increase in audio and video capability within the complex. The ability to have a simple network connecting all these boxes made the rigging much easier and less expensive and was building on years of experience in using RAVENNA in the opera house. In some cases, these were primarily being used as I/O converters going from MADI or AES/EBU to RAVENNA or vice versa. Four Horus units were used, one handling the RF mics, one in the orchestra pit for the twenty musicians, one on stage for the monitor mix and one front of house. In this scenario, getting the live sound right is obviously paramount and there were two Digico consoles and one Midas console used one front of house, one in the orchestra pit and one on stage. Fortunately, things had warmed up considerably by the time the run began, leaving wind as the only weather hazard to cause issues with the radio mics.
Rehearsals for this bold endeavor started when the temperature in the evenings was hardly Californian at less than 5 degrees centigrade. The “cheap seats” were the other side of the lagoon where another 200 cars could view the live transmission on a big LED wall.
This area accommodated 200 cars that could view the live stage. Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” used a custom-built stage more often deployed for the “Coachella” festival, which was erected along with two IMAG screens in the Marin Center in San Rafael. Ever been to a drive-in opera? Probably not as this is a rather unusual proposition but one that has just completed a run of evening performances that started on April 23 and finished on May 15 2021.
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