Excellente ***********

Schön den Moment und die Konzentration der Violinistin eingefangen!

Jolie musicienne concentrée sur sa partition !

I suppose those intense facial expressions classical musicians make are absolutely crucial—after all…

I have seen much, much worse;-)

I’m sure you did… meant more in general for this genre ///

Eine klasse Serie! Warst du der offizielle Fotograf? Denn normalerweise ist doch Fotografieren explizit verboten...

Ja, das war in offizieller Mission :-)

Although I'm not a big fan of full-length classical concerts, they are always a highlight from a photographic perspective. I'm currently accompanying an amateur theater play that will be performed in July. I love - and this brings us back to classical music - the expression and facial expressions of the protagonists. That's always worthwhile for photographers. But sometimes it just doesn't work out.

I really understand why people feel compelled to take photos of performers. There’s a natural human curiosity and a desire to capture special moments, to hold onto them just a little longer. But if you look around at any concert, you’ll notice something interesting: alongside the half-dozen professional photographers, half the audience is busy snapping pictures or recording videos on their phones.

Yet, despite this flurry of activity, only a tiny fraction of these images ever get shared. Maybe one makes it into a magazine, a handful appear on social media, and the rest—thousands upon thousands—end up forgotten on memory cards and in cloud storage. In this way, concerts, much like sports events, have become some of the world’s biggest sources of unused photos: moments captured, but rarely revisited.

Absolutely right! It's frightening that many organizers ask the audience to leave their smartphones in their pockets and simply follow and enjoy the concert. Especially as these things with their small lenses and tiny microphones can't record what the stage has to offer anyway. And it's also really stupid when a phone is constantly being held in front of your nose in the audience.
Even though I'm accredited, I try to disturb the view of the stage as little as possible.

So is the pandemic with mobiles on concerts spreading fully to Europe. I was shocked to see in China, 15 years ago. On rock concerts, whole first row was filming. Like nanochipped mummies. And on classical music, people would be doing phonecalls. Seriously.