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Robe is Icy Cool for Twenty One Pilots Tour

Twenty One Pilots’ “Icy” tour hit the road this summer, offering LD Tyler “Shap” Shapard the chance to produce an elegant and imaginative lighting design. To atmospherically engineer the mood and vibes for each song, he relied on a Solotech-supplied rig that included 80 Robe MegaPointes.

Parnelli Awards Nominations Continue

Nominations are now being accepted for the next Parnelli Awards ceremony, to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, CA on Friday, April 14, 2023, during the NAMM Show. Anyone can now nominate live event professionals and companies who exemplify the best of the best in our industry for a prestigious Parnelli Award. The deadline for Parnelli nominations is Dec. 16, 2022, 5 p.m. PST.

KoRn

Crowned a fan favorite and ‘the band’s best show yet’, KoRn performs behind a transparent wall of video images and lighting effects on their Summer 2022 Tour. PLSN catches up with Production Manager Robert “Bobby” Schneider and Production/Lighting Designer Thomas “Church” Christmann to learn how it all calmly came together.

Swedish House Mafia: Designing A Circular Paradise

We hear all about the massive circular structure rig on Swedish House Mafia’s Paradise Again world tour from Ben Dalgleish and the Human Person design team, the architects of this rave arena experience. We also talk to All Access about the build and with ER Productions about the laser design by Derek Abbott.

Astera Titans for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

Astera Titan Tubes provided a great solution for the lighting of a rolling ‘small stage’ scenic truck which was central to the action for the 2022 Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival’s acclaimed production of Alessandro nell’Indie (Alexander in India) by Leonardo Vinci, directed by Max Emmanuel Cancic and lit by David Debrinay from Paris and Lyon, France, based design studio, LJOMA. Three unique performances were staged at the beautiful Margravial Opera House (Markgräfliches Opernhaus), a UNESCO World Heritage site.Read More »Astera Titans for Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival

More than 450 Proteus Workhorses Light The Weeknd’s ‘After Hours til Dawn’ Stadium Tour

The Weeknd 2022 tour. All photos by Todd Kaplan

Big concert tours were back in a big way this past summer and The Weeknd’s ambitious “After Hours til Dawn” outing is perhaps the best example. Lighting designer Jason Baeri is using over 450 Elation Proteus Hybrid™ and Proteus Excalibur™ moving head luminaires as workhorse fixtures on the tour, an elaborate, visually striking show that has been selling out major stadiums across North America since July. The first leg of the all-stadium tour kicked off on July 14 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and concludes on November 27 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The tour is also scheduled to visit South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

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Robe for Saaremaa Opera Festival 2022

Robe was the moving light of choice for the 2022 Saaremaa Opera Festival staged in a purpose-built tented arena erected beside the charismatic Kuressaare Castle in the south of Saaremaa Island, Estonia, which was the dramatic location for five days of popular opera and other performances, all presented this year by the Silesian Opera (Opera Śląska) from Bytom, Poland.Read More »Robe for Saaremaa Opera Festival 2022

Looking at Numbers, Listening to Music

LD Chris Lose writes about taking over a show as Lighting Director and his methods of getting up to speed on the design, the music and the programming, to get both his mind and body into the ‘flow state’.