International News

LONDON – This is the year that iconic crooner Frank Sinatra would have celebrated his 100th birthday, and to mark that milestone, Sinatra – via 3D rotoscoped imagery and never before seen video – is on stage once again at the London Palladium, starring in Sinatra: The Man & His Music. The sleek, cutting edge production, mounted by Producer Karl Sydow, takes place 65 years after Sinatra played his first gig outside the U.S. Technical Performance and Presentation, the London-based representative for RC4 Wireless, stepped in for a wireless assist.

NEUSTADT-GLEWE, Germany — The Airbeat-One festival happens yearly since 2002 on the private airfield of Neustadt-Glewe in North Germany and is held by the rental company Music-Eggert. There are several floors where a lot of EDM fans can listen to several styles of their favorite music. The Main Floor this year alone was equipped with various Clay Paky fixtures. The event was held from July 16-19, 2015.

SLOVENIA – Leading Slovenian lighting designer Crt Birsa was asked to create a dynamic production lighting scheme for the main stage at the 2015 Schengenfest event, Slovenia’s largest festival, staged at Vinica, Bela Krajina and attracting up to 10,000 music fans each day. They enjoyed a series of rousing performances from a selection of top international artists and local heroes including Rudimental (DJ set), Asian Dub Foundation, Magnifico, Siddharta Stahlzeit and Guano Apes.

PRAGUE – The Vivaldianno Project – featuring classics played in a unique classical rock style – is a crossover musical concept evolved by Italian violinist Jaroslav Sveceny and Czech rock keyboardist Michal Dvorak. The latest touring version of the show played five large arenas in the Czech and Slovak Republics with a full Robe moving light rig supplied by rental company Q-99 from Slovakia.  Martin Hruska designed the lighting looks.

WALLERN, Austria – When experiential event production agency Media Apparat took on the technical aspects of Pioneers Festival in June 2015, the new multimedia control and display capabilities of AV Stumpfl Wings Engine Stage and Fullwhite screens were put to a real-world test.

BERGAMO, Italy – Clay Paky relayed comments made by LD Giovanni Pinna, who has lit Giovanni Pinna since 1991. Clay Paky fixtures accounted for more than 25 percent of the total number of moving lights in use for Pinna’s concerts this year. The rig included Clay Paky Sharpy spotlights (54), Sharpy Wash 330s (50) and Alpha Beam 1500s (24).

LEICESTERSHIRE, U.K. —LD Steve Bewley is the first to tour the UK and Europe with Ayrton MagicBlade-R fixtures, using over 100 units for British rock-band, Enter Shikari, in support of their new album, The Mindsweep. Bewley has truss-mounted 84 MagicBlade-R fixtures behind the band in a curved wall which splits horizontally to adapt his design to fit any size of venue. The band is pictured here at the Download Festival, held in Leicestershire, U.K. in June.

SINGAPORE — Singapore hosted the 28th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) June 5-16 in conjunction with the republic’s 50th year of independence, using Riedel Communications’ Artist digital matrix intercom system and Acrobat digital wireless intercom system for the event’s opening and closing ceremonies.

JOHANNESBURG – Production Designer Declan Randall included Robe fixtures in the rig for the new South African production of Sister Act. The 89 Robe LED moving lights used for the ‘Rose Window’ scenes are a visual highlight for the show.

IBIZA – The high-profile team behind Heart, a recent addition to Ibiza’s thriving summer nightlife scene, turned to Belgium-based Arf & Yes for the nightspot’s lighting design, which needed to be flexible for a variety of performances staged there. Featured fixtures include 112 Rogue R1 Washes from Chauvet Professional, supplied by Stonex Show Lighting.