On September 20, 2016, AC/DC wrapped up the final show of their iconic ‘Rock or Bust’ tour at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. The band never appeared on the concert stage again… that is until they kicked off their ‘Power Up’ tour on May 17th in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. For fans who packed the Veltins-Arena, it was well worth the 2,796-day wait.
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The latest tour of the legendary Italian rock star Vasco Rossi captivated thousands of fans (620,000 tickets sold) with epic concerts at the San Siro Stadium in Milan and the San Nicola Stadium in Bari. Vasco delivered unique emotions, thanks also to a perfect synergy between music and cutting-edge technology. Ayrton Cobras played a role in LD Giovanni Pinna’s design.
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The Spanish open-air festival series “I Love Reggaeton” was held in Valencia and Madrid from the end of May to the beginning of June. Genre… Read More »Pyramids of Light – Cameo at the I Love Reggaeton Festival
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One of Spain’s most prominent lighting designers, Xavier Costas, a member of the Asociación de Autores de Iluminación (AAI), has been a cornerstone in the… Read More »Xavier Costas: Two Decades of Lighting Success with the ONYX Platform
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2024 was the second year that South African Lighting Designer Renaldo van den Berg has lit the prestigious Metro FM Awards, which is a leading… Read More »Robe for the 2024 Metro FM Awards
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The FRABA Group, an international supplier of sensors for industrial motion control and safety systems, has announced the opening of a new business unit in China. The new company, named the FRABA Industrial Automation (Shanghai) Company, Limited, will serve the rapidly expanding Chinese industrial automation market.
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NicLen GmbH continues to rely on Cameo in 2024. With its latest investment in the new ORON H2 phosphor laser moving head, the leading dry hire provider has added a real game-changer to its lighting technology portfolio. The IP65 hybrid moving head with phosphor-laser engine is now available in large quantities to all NicLen customers.
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Lighting Designer Daniel Knipper used 24 CHAUVET Professional Ovation Rêve E-3 IP LED ellipsoidals in his transformative design for the six-century-old Strasbourg Cathedral located in Place de la Cathédrale in Strasbourg, France. The full-spectrum color-mixing fixtures, which were supplied by XEOS, were hung on two porticos that flanked the façade. This arrangement allowed Knipper to highlight the architectural details of the façade by creating gobos based on digital photos.
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Girls Aloud are back on the road for the first time in 11 years, with their Girls Aloud Show tour, a lively, edgy, pop-tastic collage of foot tapping hits, creatively directed by Beth Honan and lit by Peter Barnes. Lighting, video, automation and rigging equipment – including some new innovations – and crew are all supplied by PRG UK to Production North, whose unfazable Iain Whitehead is overseeing all related technical production elements.
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Flames, lasers, and lights fired up the night sky at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in the UK as Arcadia launched its amazing new “Dragonfly” spectacular concept. Lighting included Robe’s new iBOLTS, a laser-source searchlight style moving light, and iPointe65s – an IP65 version of Robe’s MegaPointe moving light – as a part of the over 200 lights illuminating the Arcadia Arena.
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The Royal Theater Carré (Koninklijk Theater Carré) is in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Founded in 1887, it was originally built as a permanent venue for the Carré circus family and their popular ‘horse-play’ circus-theatre shows, but was later repurposed to also stage a variety of performances, revue theatre and operettas. Currently, the auditorium is used for a mix of musicals, pop and music concerts, and cabaret shows. The auditorium lighting has recently received an upgrade with the existing lighting replaced by Anolis Ambiane XP56 LED fixtures fitted with 20° lenses.
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In the spring of 2024, the city of Riyadh welcomed Zarqa Al Yamama, the first grand opera in Arabic and first operatic work produced by… Read More »The Modulo Kinetic Media Server Drives Saudi Arabia’s First Opera
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