3D Opera: GlobeCast delivers live performance of Don Giovanni to cinemas throughout France

 

29 May 2009

GlobeCast announced today that on Tuesday evening 2 June, it will be delivering a live 3D HD feed of a performance of Don Giovanni from the Rennes Opera house in Brittany via satellite to cinemas in Paris and elsewhere in France, though its collaboration with Orange Labs.   

The goal is to use the latest technology to bring Mozart’s masterpiece simultaneously to several screens across hundreds of miles in the highest possible 3D quality. 

This multi-camera operation, organized by Orange Labs and filmed by AMP, involves combining two video signals into one feed with the help of a Sensio 3D Cinema encoder.  The GlobeCast SNG vehicle outside the opera house  delivers the single feed to destinations throughout France: two cinemas in Paris, including the famous ‘Geode’ sphere, as well as cinemas in Avignon and Brest.  At each cinema, a GlobeCast truck downlinks the feed and decodes it for projection, ensuring that the image layers and audio are perfectly synchronized.  The audiences, with the help of 3D glasses, can experience the performance live in astounding quality as if they were in the Rennes opera house, hundreds of miles away.