Beethoven's Opera Fidelio was performed inside the walls of Thessaloniki's Byzantine castle. The need for the raise of the reverberation time of this open space was satisfied with an ambiophonic application that used electroacoustical devices in order to generate and amplify the already existing reflections. The whole system was designed to provide a reverberant and highly diffusive character, with the needs for speech intelligibility taken into account.

Authors: Papanikolaou, George; Kalliris, George; Goussios, Christos; Dimoulas, Charalampos
Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2Mass Communication and Media, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
AES Convention: 114 (March 2003) Paper Number: 5792
Publication Date: March 1, 2003
Subject: Acoustics of Recording and Reproduction

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