https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/...jobs-at-the-met-opera.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
From his aerie in the gilded ceiling of the vast Metropolitan Opera House, just behind the Sputnik chandeliers and some six stories above the stage, Tim Guscott fixed Anna Netrebko in his sights. Then he cast a beam of light so narrow and precisely aimed that it illuminated only that Russian diva’s head as she sang Puccini far below.
“It’s really hard to follow something no bigger than a basketball that’s 135 feet away,” he said as he kept a slightly pink light tightly on Ms. Netrebko’s face as she moved, subtly offsetting the larger, blue-tinted spotlight a colleague had cast on her whole body. ...