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[caption id="attachment_278257" align="alignnone" width="800"]Juan Diego Florez Benefit Concert[/caption]

LIMA, PERU –– He has been called the “heir to Pavarotti.” Dazzling crowds with his immaculate, crystal clear voice, he is universally regarded as “one of the greatest tenors in history.” Still, even as his celebrated career has taken him from La Scala to Royal Albert Hall, Juan Diego Florez has kept his heart in Peru. So, when his homeland was struck by a series of natural disasters this spring, the famous operatic star stepped up and announced that he would hold a benefit concert to help those afflicted by these events.

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[caption id="attachment_278250" align="alignnone" width="800"]The Kooks[/caption]

UK – West London UK based lighting and visuals rental specialist Colour Sound Experiment supplied a bespoke built touring lighting ‘specials’ package to alt rockers The Kooks for their recent  “The Best of … so Far” tour. This UK leg of the tour closed with a high profile gig at London’s Alexandra Palace for which additional lighting production was added, together with IMAG video.

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[caption id="attachment_278247" align="alignnone" width="800"]Arcadia Spider at Glastonbury 2017 [/caption]

UK – CPL (Central Presentations Ltd) enjoyed another glorious Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, supplying projection to Arcadia’s giant recycled metal spider, which hosted their phenomenal “Metamorphosis” show. The west Midlands based rental specialist also supplied a lighting and rigging package which was utilized across the lively Shangri-La late night area.

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[caption id="attachment_278244" align="alignnone" width="800"] The HRBR Project[/caption]

NYC – It’s always exciting to be involved in a new event and the positive buzz, energy and hashtags spread as infectiously as the groove of the very first HRBR Project shows, a new music venue presented by RPM on Governor’s Island in New York Harbor. Kevin Mignone, owner of KM Productions, the company charged with producing the multi-week event, was determined to deliver the biggest and boldest show possible for the new outdoor space and brought on long-time collaborator, Mike Gionfriddo of Total Production Design (TPD), as the lighting designer to create a design with maximum impact. 

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[caption id="attachment_278228" align="alignnone" width="1800"]left to right is Nick Unij, Kuno van Velzen and Jan Honouwer[/caption]

NETHERLANDS – The newly built and inaugurated Atlas Theatre in Emmen, Netherlands is a multifunctional performance space in the heart of the city and part of a 250 million euro development. In addition to the two Atlas auditoriums – with capacities of 822 and 300 – the complex also includes a full convention center, catering outlets, offices and is an access point for the Wildlands Adventure Zoo … and Robe moving lights!

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WAREGEM, Belgium  – Thanks to its consistently impressive line-ups and extravagant productions, the five-year old Hype-O-Dream has already succeeded in making an indelible impact on the summer EDM festival calendar in Belgium. This year’s headliners including Lil John and Roger Sanchez raising the bar. Creative Rental Solutions were tasked with providing bigger and better visuals for the festival’s five stages. To achieve this, they incorporated a number of CHAUVET Professional Maverick MK1 Hybrid, Maverick MK2 Spot, Rogue R2 Wash and Geyser RGB fixtures into the visual concepts of the Mirage Mainstage and the Flashback Stage.

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LONDON – MDG noted that two of its ATMe haze generators have been chosen for the current musical production of 42nd Street at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

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LONDON – Adam Young and Finn Ross, founders of Olivier Award-winning visual storytelling outfit, Fray Studio, are the creators of the much-talked-about video environments showcasing in the current Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of The Tempest, now on at The Barbican in London.

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[caption id="attachment_278184" align="alignnone" width="800"]Garden Beats enters its 2nd year[/caption]

 SINGAPORE – Lighting for the second Garden Beats Festival organized by Sunshine Nation and staged in the pastoral green environs of Fort Canning Park in Singapore … was designed by Craig Burridge. He included an interesting mix of Robe products on his plot including 24 x Linees, six ColorStrobes and six LEDBlinder 148 LTs, all of which contributed to a lively and colorful scheme for the one day event for which the lighting vendor was locally based CSP Productions Pte Ltd.

 

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