I briefly watched a folk-song group in the main piazza early on Sunaday afternoon. The municipality has (or rents) the universal girder festival stage, control booth, etc. Impressive scale. Oddly, everyone seemed at ease with this folk group surrounded by this immense tech scheme. We have perhaps become conditioned to seeing the true image in the machine. It's the usual form.
At the beginning of this peregrination, I saw a street-theatre piece in the national capital. Similarly, each performance station was equipped with a large loudpeaker and stage lights. I was conscious of a certain legitimizing effect.
You have to look for the stangeness in distant cultures these days, as we're all so far into the guitar-band and television-news world that there's an easy symbolic lingua franca, at least in the trade latitudes of the northern hemisphere. But the strangeness is still there, counterweighting things from below. The need for legitimating things is perhaps akin to the shift in the Greeks from the jolly travelling performances of the red men, to the wooden and earth theatres, and then to the stone theatres like that built at Athens by Lycurgus. This elevates the the event, so long as it's not taken for granted.
And yet, it still must conduct the people to the same mystery. The reason that there's a very large building with a large cross on top is that there's a rather small book inside that is as important as the building is large. But the largeness won't help you read it.