As the city’s main stage for operetta, opera, musicals and ballet, Vienna’s Volksoper is an incredibly busy theatre with some 300 performances of around 35 different productions staged every year between September and June.
Delivering such a high volume of performances requires a great deal of effort from everyone involved, especially the sound department, who turn to DPA Microphones to meet such a strenuous demand.
“To cope with such an intense workload, our sound equipment has to be flexible, durable and very hard working,” says Martin Lukesch, head of Sound and Multimedia at Volksoper Vienna.
“This is why we use DPA microphones. For many years they have played an important part in providing the amplification for the orchestra, actors in musicals and actors and singers in every kind of show. Opera and operettas, of course, require no amplification – that’s all down to the power of the human voice.”