The „Vienna Volksoper“ (“Volksoper Wien”) is Vienna’s grand house for operetta, opera, musical and ballet, providing superior musical entertainment. Colourful, multifaceted and joyful, the Volksoper is the only concert house in Vienna attending to the genre “operetta”. The building from 1898 was up for the improvement of fire precautions also in those rooms accommodating the audio technology. This offered the opportunity to renovate and modernise the digitally equipped control rooms and re-fit them completely with new interior and state-of-of-the-art technology. For the recording control suite the Vienna Volksoper decided for a mc²56 mixing console from Lawo.

The iconic Golden Gate Bridge turned 75 this year, and DPA Microphones is supporting local San Francisco artist Bill Fontana in honoring the landmark’s anniversary. With a video camera and seven DPA Reference Standard 4006A Omnidirectional microphones fixed to the bridge, Fontana is streaming and capturing six months’ worth of sound and footage for a live video and sound portrait titled Acoustical Visions of the Golden Gate. He also relies on a Sound Devices 788T multi-track digital audio recorder to capture the audio.

AJA Ki Pro Mini Used With Panavision Genesis Camera by Legendary Cinematographer Haskell Wexler to Capture Endeavour's LAX Landing For Documentary Production

Swan Lake is regarded as one of the world's most popular ballets of all time, coming close after The Nutcracker. Russian composer Tchaikovsky’s familiar music is one reason for the ballet’s enduring popularity. The ballet premiered in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as The Lake of the Swans. Although the first version flopped (Reisenger), the second production choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov in 1894 brought the ballet the success it holds today. Most of today's versions are based on the St Petersburg 1894 production.

The 45th Annivversary of the Jára Cimrman Theater in Prague was transmitted in High Definition by Reckord Outside Broadcasting to 65 cinemas in the Czech Republic and to 10 cinemas in Slowakia. It also was streamd on www.seznam.cz where 50.000 viewers watched the theater performance.

As the Torch Relays made their way around the UK this summer, DPA microphones were at the heart of the festivities, providing loud and clear audio at a total of 70 evening celebrations and the daily lighting of the cauldron ceremonies.

To mark her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, the English National Ballet recently completed a series of 14 sell-out performances at the new 500-seat Theatre at The Concourse Performing Arts Centre in Sydney, Australia.

Working to focus the spotlight on the true artistry of hip hop, curator and artist herself, Miz Metro has combined visual works of art with classic rap tracks and remixes in her gallery, The Art of Rap: Remixed and Mastered.  Inspired by the Ice-T documentary, The Art of Rap, the New York City gallery features hip hop centric graffiti art and photos by renowned artists Shirt King Phade, Jamel Shabazz and Ryan Keeley. Utilizing HARMAN’s AKG K702 headphones, the gallery comes alive with newly remixed sounds by Keith Shocklee.

A nexus of performance art, Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) provides a sustaining alternative to the relentless humour of the Fringe. Dance, drama, music, musical drama, and yes, even a little humour, is the breadth of what's available. With such variety, and a furious turn over where shows move in and out on an almost daily basis, it's an exhausting month for the stage crews and technicians.

For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. on 28 August to hear "Reach for the Stars" by musician will.i.am after it was transmitted from the surface of Mars by the Curiosity rover.

Six weeks of July and August 2012 have seen a pair of Yamaha CL5s undertake their most challenging task yet. Backed by stunning lakeland scenery and with the CL5s solving complex delay panning issues, Tell - Das Musical recounts the story of Switzerland’s most famous folk hero.

With the yearly TV show “Criança Esperança” (Child Hope) Brazil’s biggest TV channel TV Globo collects funds to support social projects assisting children’s development across the whole country. This project started in 1986 and has to date collected over 200 million Reals (100 million USD).

The fourth annual Bahrain Summer Festival was recently staged at the Bahrain International Exhibition and Convention Centre (BIECC). Organised by Bahrain’s Ministry of Culture under the slogan “Manama, City of Joy” the festival offered a wide variety of artistic and cultural shows by international artists.

CTS Audio recently deployed more than 50 of HARMAN’s Crown I-Tech HD Series and XTi Series amplifiers to power a JBL VERTEC® line array system for the for Covenant High in Christ (CHIC) youth conference earlier this summer at the University of Tennessee’s 25,000-seat Thompson-Boling Arena. The 5-day event featured numerous inspirational speakers and musical performers.

The Salzburg Festival was inaugurated on August 22, 1920, when Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s morality play Jedermann was premiered on the Domplatz, directed by Max Reinhardt. Since that time, the Salzburg Festival has established itself as the most important festival for opera, drama and concerts.