BLUE OPERA was another work that relied heavily on pre-recorded tape. They
overcame the difficulty with cues by hiring a music director who became
intimately familiar with the recorded music, and conducted the singers and
small additional live ensemble appropriately.
I also remember seeing a performance of PHANTOM OF THE OPERA during the
musicians' strike some years ago, performed with pre-recorded orchestra
tape. Again, they used a conductor to cue the singers.
This would seem to me to be the ideal way not to be confounded by
composers' technical innovations.
Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
With their highly original sound.
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.
- Michael Palin
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