A Soprano concert in audio description, accessible to blind and visually impaired people

A Soprano concert is always an impressive spectacle, with lots of giant screens, pyrotechnics and choreography of all kinds. Last July, the Marseille artist had already innovated by having his concert at Vieilles Charrues entirely translated into sign language, for deaf and hard of hearing people.

Saturday evening in Trélazé, there will be audio description, provided live by Morgan Renault: “Before, and even still in the 2000s, there was clearly a laziness in developing accessibility to culture. It’s a society that is waking up!” Thanks to the Visio Foundation, he will spend almost two hours, sitting facing the stage, with his headset and microphone, describing the show to visually impaired spectators, being careful not to encroach on the songs.

He who usually works for the cinema (it was he, for example, who produced the audio description of the film The Snow Panther) will have to improvise a lot. “Usually I work on films, so with an audiovisual medium that I can watch at my leisure, he explains. There, it’s a live show, things are going to unfold in front of me without me knowing what’s going to happen in the next ten seconds, what we’re going to talk about, what the scenography is going to be… So it’s going to be the description of the choreographies, what steps they do, how they are dressed. And, first thing, Soprano himself: what he looks like, how he is dressed, if he ever gets up on a platform to harangue the crowd…”

In theater, dance and opera, audio description is already a reality. But in current music, this is a first.

“I’ve had the idea of ​​audio describing a live concert in mind for years. I hope it will give ideas to artists. We have the attitude of pioneers, it’s quite exciting. “

Morgan Renault

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And whether for Soprano or others, the idea remains the same: that culture is truly accessible to all audiences.