UK-based Lighting Designer Phil Supple utilized 56 x Astera Tubes – 40 x Titan and eight each Hyperion and Helios – to illuminate 137 windows across 57 rooms at the George Heriot School in Edinburgh, Scotland, for ‘Where to Begin’, the opening event of the 2024 Edinburgh International Festival (EIF).
Kuressaare Castle on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, provided a magical backdrop and a beautiful setting for the 2024 Saaremaa Opera Festival. This year’s host company, Fundació Òpera Catalunya (The Catalan Opera) from Spain produced a week of special back-to-back opera shows and related events, with lighting equipment and crew supplied by Tallinn-based rental specialist E&T, comprising almost all Robe luminaires.
This year’s edition of The Touring Career Workshop (TCW) wrapped up last week with a range of sessions and panels and an array of speakers. Here are some photos from the event with legendary Tour Manager, Marty Hom, and recording artist Keith Urban showed up to honor is longtime Tour Manager, Chuck Hull who was awarded the Sam “Old Skool” Harden Award.
Reflecting the intense emotions of Fous Chantants throughout the popular event was a bold and dynamic lighting design by Victor Lagiewski and Guillaume Fournier of Chromatik that featured 146 CHAUVET Professional projectors supplied by SGroup. Featured in the collection were Maverick Storm 2 and Rogue Outcast 1 BeamWashes, COLORado PXL Curve 12s, PXL Bar 16s, and Color STRIKE Ms.
Ayrton Diablo and Mistral lighting fixtures and an MDG Me1g high-output fog generator play key roles in The Legend of Luna, the immersive signature attraction which debuted at Great Wolf Lodge Perryville (Maryland) and will be included in all fourth generation Great Wolf Lodge locations.
Gamers visiting Arizona’s 98,000-square-foot Talking Stick Resort casino are enjoying an array of high-resolution displays which wrap around each zone to enhance the experience, with twelve Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers installed for video duty.
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The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre (Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski) is a Shakespearean theatre in the middle of the thriving industrial port city of Gdansk in Poland. Designed by Italian architect Renato Rizzi, it opened in 2014 and is built on the site of a 17th-century theatre, known as the Fencing School, where English travelling players once performed English Renaissance Theatre works.
On the first evening of Wacken Open Air, German medieval rockers In Extremo headlined on the Louder Stage. The band’s renowned Lighting Designer, Martin Heining, expanded his design especially for the Wacken show, by including 12 of the new high-performance Creos wash lights from by GLP, adding on to the already extensive festival design by LD Jerry Appelt.
In just three years, Constanta, Romania’s Beach Please has become the largest urban music festival in Europe drawing hip hop, pop, and electronic headliners. The 2024 show featured a lighting rig comprising 430 moving light fixtures. To match the colossal scale of the production, Stage and Lighting Designer Andrei Predut of APart Productions brought in 36 Claypaky Skylos.
Replicating the Hollywood Bowl at a modern indoor arena is a tall order, but Bobby Grey of Notan Creative LLC was more than up to the challenge recently when he was called upon to light Audacy’s superstar-studded ‘We Can Survive’ concert at New Jersey’s 18,000-capacity Prudential Center. Held annually in support of mental health advocacy, the event routinely features many of music’s biggest names.
Over 500 Robe moving lights were supplied by three top German rental and technical production companies to four main stages at the 2024 Lollapalooza Berlin festival, organized by Live Nation and staged over two days at the Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium). The North and South stages, the Alternative Stage and Perry’s Stage all rocked Robe this year supplied by TSE (North), the Media Resource Group – MRG (South & Perry’s) and Sound Projekt (Alternative).