after the outage on Saturday, return to normal announced on Sunday

It grumbled loudly, and “it was in packs of a hundred that the onlookers deserted the place”, testifies Paul. He himself came out of the last performance of Tosca at the opera on Saturday evening to discover a place taken over by “a crazy world, waiting for the sound and light show”. In other words, La Belle Saison, a new version of this summer event that is indeed very popular on the square, and which this year benefits from a total reconfiguration thanks to the company AV Extended. An appointment given all summer until September 11, from 10:45 p.m. (until August 15, then it will be at 10 p.m.).

“But nothing at 10:45 p.m.,” says Paul. “Nothing at 11 p.m., nothing at 11:15 p.m.” So that “the crowd leaves the place angry,” says Claire in turn.

It is true that this Saturday was the last before leaving for vacation for many Nancy residents, and in any case Saturday in general promises great crowds in front of this now awaited spectacle.

But this time, we had to wait until 11:30 p.m. before the facade finally lights up. But in a truncated way. In short, a failure.

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“Network problem”

“The electricity fairy was sleepy?” Paul pretends to wonder. “Computer failure? In any case, it’s a mess in the audience…”

“According to the bartender, it’s an automatic trigger that didn’t work,” continues Claire. ” It would not be the first time. »

In fact, yes. It would be the first time…this year anyway. Because in the past, already on several occasions, various breakdowns have sown disappointment in the crowd of spectators, for reasons X and Y. Breakdowns of video projectors had in particular made thousands of frustrated in the summer of 2012. 2016 too, a year troubled by a second incident a few weeks later.

“But this time, it was a problem on the network which prevented the automatic start-up”, specifies Bertrand Masson, deputy for culture. A technical point was also made on Sunday morning, the stakes are far too great to expose oneself to the repetition of this type of setback. It is all about the reputation of the favorite monument of the French!

But rest assured, Sunday afternoon, the announcement was made that everything was to return to normal for the same evening. La Belle Saison is expected to stretch out with beautiful and great effects until September 11th.

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