Placido Domingo at San Jose Arena
The Meyer Sound File - Summer 1995
Placido Domingo
On April 7, in San Jose, California, tenor Placido Domingo and soprano Veronica Villaroel sang a concert of opera and zarzuela (a form of Spanish operetta), accompanied by the San Jose Symphony Orchestra under conductor Karl Sollak. Their venue was a hockey rink, the San Jose Arena. A Meyer Sound sysem, designed by Alexander "Thorny" Yuill-Thorton II of Solstice Sound Design in San Rafael, California, and provided by ProMedia of El Sobrante, California, ensured that all 12,000 patrons could hear the music clearly, from the opening aria to the seventh and final encore.
"We use Meyer all the time," says John Monitto of ProMedia. "It's a product we completely believe in. The system we used for the Domingo concert worked very well."
The sound system, similiar to the one designed by Solstice for the Three Tenors
concert in Los Angeles last year, comprised three MSL-5s
and six DS-2s per
side, four MSL-3s
in the center, and UPA-1Cs as
fills. To widen the coverage of the main arrays, an MSL-3 was installed on the
side of wach array of MSL-5s. Barrett Bassick of Solstice aligned the system
using SIM® System II.
