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Opera in the Vineyards

October 2011: Opera in the Vineyards, now in its 16th year, saw 4000 people descend on Wyndham Estate in NSW's Hunter Valley to bask in the music of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, With fair weather, special guest stars Phillip Rhodes, Brian Castles-Onion (Conductor) and the Sydney Lyric Orchestra everything for a perfect evening was in place .

Norwest provided a full turnkey audio solution for the event – speaker system, control system and microphones. This consisted of eight Adamson Y18s over four Adamson Y10s for each side with sub bass support of T21 subwoofers, In addition there was extra front- and out-fill from an additional eight Adamson Y10s.

FOH and monitors were controlled by a Yamaha PM1D with Martin Atkinson, Dame Kiri’s long time audio director, performing FOH mixing duties.

Dame Kiri and the other guest singers used Schoeps microphones on collette stems for their performances. The orchestra used 22 of these same Schoeps microphones, the sound of which Adrian Riddell, Norwest's Opera in the Vineyards account manager, describes as "like a full-bodied and luscious red wine which only gets better with age."

This was the first year for Norwest working on Opera in the Vineyards, and both our client, 4D International, and the audience gave Norwest great feedback. Audio designer was Adrian Riddell and the highly professional crew consisted of  Matt Whitehead, John Watterson and John Warren, 2011 saw Opera in the Vineyards reach new technical standards which we can be very proud of.

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