When noted English choreographer Christopher Wheeldon hosted Cinderella for the English National Ballet (ENB) at the Royal Albert Hall in June 2019, he was keen to live up to the rich history of the storied venue. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/12 www.barco.com
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Highlite International recently opened the doors of its Kerkrade, the Netherlands headquarters for a unique Experience Day 2019, transforming, once again, into a real entertainment knowledge and experience centre for a wealth of industry professionals. The day included various product demonstrations, workshops and training sessions that displayed new Highlite products and allowed attendees to engage in the company’s growth. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/8 www.highlite.com
Whether you’re a regular at festival sites or in one of the various arenas around Europe, there is little doubt that, at one point or another, you will have seen a BPM SFX logo, with its striking black and orange colour scheme, emblazoned on a hoodie or flight case. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/88 www.bpm-sfx.com
The Brompton Technology team is a busy one – a very busy one. Since it was formed in 2011, the company has experienced rapid growth that has seen several new product launches as well as an ambitious expansion into China, so the fact that TPi was able to catch the majority of the senior leadership team all together in one room was a minor miracle in itself. Settling down in Brompton’s head office in West London, Managing Director, Richard Mead, brought us up to speed with the company’s origin story. https://issuu.com/mondiale/docs/tpinov19_digitallr/82 www.bromptontech.com
Becoming a symbol of the Italian youth of the ’80s, Italian singer-songwriter and rapper, Lorenzo Cherubini’s (better known as Jovanotti) first studio album, Jovanotti for President, sold over 400,000 copies in Italy, while his song Piove was released for the second season of The Sopranos as an ending credits track. Still immensely popular to this day, Jovanotti is currently on tour, where his FOH and monitor engineers rely on three SSL Live L550 consoles to provide that signature full, analogue sound – whilst playing to crowds of 40,000 on sandy beaches. Jovanotti’s Monitor Engineer, Massimo Manunza, has been working with…
Although Maggie Rogers’ major label debut, Heard it in a Past Life, officially dropped in January 2019, the singer-songwriter has quickly built up a massive fan base over the past few years thanks, in part, to her captivating opening sets on 2018 tours with both HAIM and Mumford & Sons. For much of this year now, she’s been out headlining her own shows, culminating with this fall’s latest and largest tour leg, for which Clair Global has been supplying a pair of DiGiCo SD10 mixing consoles. Production Manager and FOH Engineer Bob Boyle has worked with Rogers since March of…
Moorestown, New Jersey-based Starlite has purchased a complement of Ayrton Khamsin-S, Ayrton’s super-compact and highly versatile profile fixture. The company has one of the largest inventories on the East Coast of AV, lighting and control equipment to meet the needs of clients in the broadcast, concert touring, corporate, performing arts and educational markets. ACT Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton fixtures in North America. The Khamsin-S purchase represents Starlite’s first acquisition of Ayrton products. “ACT Lighting demo’d the whole Ayrton line for us, and we evaluated the Khamsins in our shop for our rental inventory and use on our…
HPL Light Company bring with them over 20 years of distribution experience and an excellent reputation throughout the Brazilian lighting market along with a lengthy of creating long-lasting business relationships. The extensive training and technical know-how of their staff makes HPL the perfect strategic partner for PROLIGHTS in Brazil. Alberto Da Silva, Sales Manager of HPL explained: “PROLIGHTS is the perfect addition to our offering here in Brazil. The importance placed on the customer and their journey is part of why we do what we do here. The difference comes with the fixtures they create, stemming from the design and…
WorldStage has unveiled StageJack, the company’s revolutionary new lightweight, large-format LED video tile platform. StageJack features large, lightweight modular panels that install quickly saving both time and labour costs. The purpose-built design and cost savings will enable more customers to add immersive, large-format video to their creative toolbox. StageJack’s easy-to-install panels forgo the heavy subframe of current LED technology and feature a NextGen modular design, installing 60 percent faster than traditional LED products. The carbon fiber panels are also 50 percent lighter than traditional LED panels allowing video walls to be used at venues and in locations where weight was…
Continuing his run of sold-out arena shows, Scottish singer-songwriter, Lewis Capaldi takes on the world one show at a time, along with an Allen & Heath dLive mixing system covering FOH and Monitor duties. Capaldi made history by becoming the first ever artist to both announce and sell out an arena tour before the release of his album, which went on to become the UK’s best-selling record in the past five years and gained him global mainstream success throughout 2019. “In early 2019 we were looking for an audio package that was powerful, flexible and compact enough for us to…
Lighting Designer Francesco De Cave illuminated Italy’s Arena di Verona using his trusty High End Systems Hog 4 console for the third consecutive RTL 102.5 Power Hits Estate concert. The event celebrated the top 50 songs played on Italian radio stations during the summer of 2019. The four-hour concert featured live performances from more than 20 artists including OneRepublic, Eros Ramazzotti, Mika and Lewis Capaldi. The set design for the open air venue featured an uncovered stage designed to favor visibility for the audience of 15,000 people. De Cave was tasked with designing a visual spectacular for the venue which…
Festyvent the UK data analytics firm for the Live – Event Industry is proud to announce the launch of its exciting all new and enhanced app features for music festivals and live events: www.festyvent.com First up and leading the way with their new and enhanced app features will be SAFE@FESTIVAL, which will allow members of the live audience to alert friends to their exact location if they fall ill or feel vulnerable. The friends contacted will be able to track the sender of the message live for 60 minutes on a google map using either GPS Co-ordinates or the ///what3words…
This new dance theatre festival is a ten-day international event, presenting the most captivating dance theatre projects from Portugal, China, Israel, the UK, Poland and across the world. Offering a range of activities aimed at engaging the local community. The festival aims to restore Silesia as an international centre of dance. This is the first and only festival of dance theater in Silesia and Zagłębie. The Kamea Dance Company Is one of Israel’s most prestigious contemporary dance companies. The company is recognised for its unique style combining strong dramatic themes and intense virtuosic movement. Artistic director Tamir Ginz creates a richly layered world in…
J5 Productions of Singapore has recently invested in 24 Ayrton Diablo-S 300W LED profile fixtures for its rental stock. The lighting fixtures were purchased earlier this year from Ayrton’s exclusive distributor for Singapore, Total Solution Marketing Pte, following a successful demonstration which showed off Diablo’s myriad fabulous features. These include the perfect colour rendition from its CMY colour mixing and 7-colour wheel, that produce a vast array of bright pastels and saturated colours, a gobo wheel, an effects wheel and a 100% full framing system. Designed specifically for stage applications, Diablo-S is equipped with a monochromatic LED light source calibrated…
The epic Utopia concert by Latin American music superstar Romeo Santos broke the all-time concert gross record for a performance at the MetLife Stadium on 21 September 2019. At the heart of the show’s rich visual design, Yamil Charif and Richard Vicens of YC3 Lighting Design specified more than 100 lighting fixtures from Vari-Lite, a Signify entertainment lighting brand. Lining the wide stage and multiple walkways were Vari-Lite’s unique VL6000 Beam fixtures. These were partnered for the first time by the new VL6500 Wash fixtures, making their world debut on Utopia, positioned around the sides of the stage. “We were…
Green Hippo Hippotizer Media Servers are driving the striking on-stage stage screen visuals for Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (NGHFB), as their 2019 World Tour continues. Production manager Michael O’Connor and lighting/video designer Rod Clay turned to event production supplier OneBigStar to service the tour’s media playback and control requirements. “We were delighted when Rod approached us to provide the control package for NGHFB,” said OneBigStar’s Steven Yeardsley. “We’ve worked closely with Rod on a number of occasions over the past few years and he’s very familiar with the equipment we stock. OneBigStar have always looked to Green Hippo and…
Enjoyed by young and old alike, Dancing with the Stars has been a mainstay of American reality television since premiering in 2005. For season 28, which premiered on September 16th on ABC, lighting designer Tom Sutherland is using Elation Professional DARTZ 360™ beam/spot LED moving heads as a principal luminaire in an immersive 360-degree lighting environment. Lighting vendor for Dancing with the Stars is Felix Lighting with Nicole Barnes as account manager. After skipping its standard spring season—there are typically two seasons per year—the Emmy-winning dance competition returned this fall with changes designed to freshen up the format and delight…
Data communications company, Pathway Connectivity, designs, manufactures and supports an innovative family of products for sophisticated stage and architectural lighting systems. It has recently incorporated SixEye’s unique unified remote management system into its offering, a move that Pathway’s Director – Product Innovation, Robert Bell, says is game changing. A decade or so ago, DMX over Ethernet was Pathway’s core product offering. Adopting consumer-based IT technology was an ideal choice and the company had good leverage on the mass market. “But there were rules,” said Bell. “For example, every device had to have a static IP address, networks were effectively an…
