ROME, Italy – Roberto Benigni only rarely appears on television, but every time he does he makes history. “The 10 Commandments” repeated the huge success “the Divine Comedy” had a few years ago. The new show, written and performed by the great Tuscan showman himself, was broadcast live on 16 and 17 December from Cinecittà by RAI 1.
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SHARJAH, UAE – Al Rashid Events – headed by the charismatic Taleb Rashid Al Zaabi – is based in Sharjah in the UAE and is a busy and dynamic technical solutions provider throughout the region.
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HIGH WYCOMBE, Buckinghamshire, UK – Panto is one of the most fun and also one of the most demanding genres of performance to light, requiring busy cueing, lots of bold and fast moving multiple scene and location changes and several touches of pure visual magic to help the action flow, all with simultaneous split-second timing … a challenge that Lighting Designer Andy Webb fully embraced for the Qdos production of “Dick Whittington” at the Swan Theatre in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK, where he chose Robe for all the moving and LED elements of his design.
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CANBERRA, Australia – American artist James Turrell’s new retrospective at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra includes projections, holograms, drawings, prints and photographs as well as 10 light installations, two featuring advanced lighting control systems created by Three Bye Intermedia, Inc, a studio focusing on interactive AV solutions.
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EGYPT – Hi-Lights Egypt are using more than 800 fixtures from the PR Lighting catalogue to build the atmosphere on one of the country’s most popular TV cookery programmes: The Taste Egypt.
Read More »LONDON – Entec Sound & Light supplied full production – lighting, sound and video – to the “Roar With Laughter” event staged by ZSL (the Zoological Society of London) at the Hammersmith Eventim Apollo. It’s the third year in a row that Entec has supplied equipment and crew to the fundraiser, which featured another side-splitting line up of top comedy talent in Seann Walsh, David O’Doherty, Sean Lock, Ed Byrne, Stewart Lee, Lucy Porter, Phil Nichol and Greg Burns.
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NOVO MESTO, Slovenia – Festival Novo Mesto is a fast growing lighting and sound rental company based in Novo Mesto in southeast Slovenia near the border with Croatia.
The company was the first in Slovenia to invest in Robe’s Pointe multi-purpose luminaires and their decision to trail-blaze the latest Robe technology boosted an already incredibly busy season of festivals, concerts, corporate and live events.
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EUROPE and UK – 2014 has been a full-tilt year for UK rock band Kasabian with a massive homecoming gig in Victoria Park, Leicester in… Read More »Renegade Smashes It with Lighting & Video Design for Kasabian Tour
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WROCLAW, Poland – ARAM once again supported the lighting and video needs of the stage used for a massive New Year’s Eve celebration here, including hundreds of lighting fixtures from Clay Paky, ROBE, Vari Lite and Fourlight and nearly 400 square meters of LED curtains and screens.
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MALTA – Lighting Director Nick Malbon and Creative Director John McCullagh relied heavily on Clay Paky lighting for the 2014 Junior Eurovision Song Contest, using more than 200 Clay Paky fixtures. “I really enjoyed working with the assortment of the Clay Paky fixtures. The A.leda is very, very bright but quite flexible, while the Sharpy and Super Sharpy deliver those amazing sharp beams. The whole package worked really well together in terms of colour and set nicely with the rest of the rig,” Malbon said.
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LYON, France — Airstar recently unveiled a temporary installation with giant inflatable LED lightbulbs of various shapes and sizes. The display greeted visitors to the Lyon Light Festival in France. Airstar installed nine giant old-style bulbs in an urban pond on the bank of the Rhône River, including a 10-meter-high “incandescent”-looking light bulb that lit up with 2,000 RGBW LED light sources inside.
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