Orange antique theater & Focal

Sharing a taste for innovation, Focal and the Théâtre Antique d'Orange naturally came together around L'Odyssée Sonore, a project combining heritage, modernity and sound innovation.

INNOVATION IN SOUND

Listed as a World Heritage Site, the Théâtre Antique and the city of Orange have made sound a new cultural ambition for the city's thousand-year-old heritage. To this end, immersive showcases have been designed, and the Théâtre Antique has called on Focal, a sound enthusiast since 1979, an expert in high-fidelity acoustics and a French living heritage company, to enhance the sound.

BATHYS HEADPHONES IN ORANGE

The first of these is L'Odyssée Sonore, an immersive show in which visitors travel through sounds and images projected onto the majestic Théâtre Antique d'Orange. Bathys was chosen to provide a pure listening experience. Its loudspeakers deliver high-fidelity sound while immersing the listener in a veritable listening bubble, thanks to its active noise reduction technology. It benefits from Focal's expertise in high-end hi-fi headphones for sensational listening.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOUND

L'Odyssée Sonore - in partnership with Edeis and Imki - is a monumental video mapping "generated by Artificial Intelligence. It is an incursion into mythology and wonder. Scenes, forests, gods, goddesses... are projected onto the entire ancient theater, and the multiple sound discoveries, thanks to three-dimensional spatialized and geolocalized sound, accompany each visitor.

WHEN THE GODS INTERVENE

In 2025, a new version of the show comes to life, in partnership with Cosmo AV and Narrative.

For this second journey, Terra, goddess of the Earth, awakens at the heart of the majestic Ancient Theatre. A forgotten world resurfaces—a universe where reality and imagination meet, where gods and humans must reconnect to avoid Chaos.

In this unique immersive experience where the past converses with the present through augmented sound reality technology, let yourself be guided by the voice of the Gods with the Bathys headphones. Spectacular sounds and images come to life before your eyes. The wind's breath, the rumble of the earth—each sound responds to your presence.

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