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On July 24th, a French horn will solo in the Quarry Gardens of Schuyler. Also on the program, an accordion, percussion and two singers from the Metropolitan Opera who are known for their ability to project.
“We do not like to use microphones in our work,” says Brenda Patterson, co-founder of Charlottesville’s Victory Hall Opera. During the pandemic the company was confined to performances online, but now it returns with a live, outdoor show using the quarry’s rock walls to naturally amplify sound.
“We believe that the power of the live operatic voice, just acoustically produced from the singer’s body, is actually the point of opera,” Patterson explains.
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