GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The Göteborg Opera first purchased SGM P-5 lighting fixtures a year and a half ago, and now has 34 P-5 wash lights. They have become the opera’s go-to fixture for more of its productions, including this year’s production of Mozart’s Le Nozze de Figaro.
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“Since I acquired the first P-5, every production in the house seems to want them,” noted production lighting manager Kent Hellberg. Currently being deployed by Le Nozze de Figaro’s lighting designer Giuseppe di Lorio, the luminaires are washing the backdrop as an essential part of the opera.
Hellberg has other lighting designers also queuing up to use the P-5s as well. “Every lighting designer that I’ve shown the P-5 to has been impressed,” Hellberg said.
The P-5s have therefore been used for different projects — for instance for a dance company, where the Japanese choreographer wanted a strong even color output; and that he certainly received, according to a smiling Hellberg, adding that the brightness of the saturated blue light, so appreciated by the choreographer, almost gave everyone a little overdose on the retina. Another lighting designer responded matter-of-factly to a demo with “How many can I have?”
“The main reason for us to choose the P-5 was, and still is, its power and the ease of handling. I was amazed at the first glance of it and still haven’t found any other product that can match the P-5 in output and uniformity. The P-5 is really the exact ‘tool’ we wanted with all the benefits of an LED fixture plus wireless DMX control,” Hellberg concluded.
