PARIS — The Opéra Bastille Paris was inaugurated in 1989 as part of the French Revo-lution Bicentenary celebrations. Always a visionary in audio technology, the Opéra Bas-tille was the first to work with an analog console featuring remote total digital recall. During a recent technical overhaul, the opera integrated Optocore and Yamaha as the basis of the system.
Three PM1D consoles located in three of the opera’s halls are now linked together using three Optocore YG2 and 21 YS2 cards along with two DD32E's, two X6P-16 IN and two X6P-8/8 devices forming a redundant ring.
Opéra Bastille Sound Directors Philippe Taberlet and Serge Dupond wanted a system that could fulfill three main criteria: The Yamaha PM1D's had to be linked up by a net-working system capable of reading the Yamaha remote protocol; the system had to offer galvanic isolation between the different points of the ring, and it had to offer redundancy.
Primary contractor was Le Team from Nanterre, France, a company that specializes in audiovisual fiber optic solutions. Le Team Project Managers Marc Belleville and Frédé-ric Protot approached Optocore's French distributor Philippe Moreau knowing that only the Optocore Networking System was capable of fulfilling all of these criteria.
All parties involved were quick to recognize the Optocore ring network’s integrated re-dundancy, quality audio mic preamps and converters. Now the presentations at the Opéra Bastille provide an audio and visual experience thanks to the advanced tech-nologies offered by Optocore and Yamaha.
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