Chris Goldscheider is claiming for loss of earnings after sustaining damage from rehearsal noise as loud as a jet engineA viola player is suing the Royal Opera House after rehearsals for a performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre allegedly ruined his hearing and destroyed his career. Chris Goldscheider claims that the noise from the brass section immediately behind him in the pit left him with acoustic shock,a problem more commonly experienced by headphone wearers subjected to short, tall frequency and tall intensity blasts of sound. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com