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ChamSys Powers Luciano’s Majestic Tour

He’s had six albums chart in the Top 10 and sold out Germany’s leading concert venues. Last year, in September, he became the first German rapper to reach over seven million Spotify listeners. But through it all, musical phenom Luciano hasn’t lost touch with the creative forces rising from the streets of the Schöneberg district of Berlin; they continue to drive his music today, just as they did when he burst upon the scene in 2012.Read More »ChamSys Powers Luciano’s Majestic Tour

Open-Air Opera Production of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ in Lithuania

The open-air production of the Wagner opera The Flying Dutchman in the historic Paul Willy Lindenau shipyard in Lithuania was one of the absolute stage highlights in Europe in 2022 and was broadcast live on the OperaVision streaming platform. Lighting Designer Andrius Stasiulis and event technology service provider Baltic Production Service relied on more than 200 outdoor-ready Cameo spotlights for this production on a spectacular stage.Read More »Open-Air Opera Production of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ in Lithuania

INFiLED’s LED Screens Power iQIYI to Create a Musical Metaverse with ‘Memoon Player’

The main lobby set with a curved 32m x 8m T-shaped LED screen using INFiLED’s EZ series LED panels that featured a high-resolution pixel pitch of 2.6mm.

In November, the virtual reality variety show Memoon Player produced by iQIYI was officially launched in China. In this innovative show, the dedicated performance of the players and the immersive virtual reality scenes made a real impression on the audience when it aired its first episode on December 9th. Show participants put on their motion capture suits and entered their avatars into a virtual landscape, where the avatars interacted, competed in games, and even performed on a virtual stage.Read More »INFiLED’s LED Screens Power iQIYI to Create a Musical Metaverse with ‘Memoon Player’

‘The Wizard of Oz’ Gets a 21st Century Makeover at Leicester’s Iconic Curve Theatre with Martin Fixtures

To provide Curve’s new production of The Wizard of Oz with a fresh and unique visual design, Lighting Designer Ben Cracknell deployed an impressive rig featuring a wide range of Martin lighting solutions.Read More »‘The Wizard of Oz’ Gets a 21st Century Makeover at Leicester’s Iconic Curve Theatre with Martin Fixtures

Ecom Events Adds to the Enchantment of Fiers à Cheval with CHAUVET Professional

“We think of our creations as an invitation to dream,” Jean-Baptiste Duperray, founder and artistic director of La Compagnie des Quidams has said. This invitation was eagerly accepted recently by all who visited the historic Château des ducs de Bretagne on the banks of the Loire to see the talented street art group’s “Fiers à Cheval” performance.  There, as the show’s large, self-lit inflatable horses floated in the air, flowing in harmony with metamorphic human artists,  the imagination of spectators took flight.  Read More »Ecom Events Adds to the Enchantment of Fiers à Cheval with CHAUVET Professional

Getting Extreme with Robe

German event technology service provider DLP Motive supplied full technical design and production – staging, automation and kinetic elements, lighting, sound, video, and LED screens – to ESL Gaming for the 10th anniversary of the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) e-gaming tournament, including two three-day events staged at the 10,000 capacity Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland, and the 18,500 capacity Lanxess-Arena in Cologne, Germany.Read More »Getting Extreme with Robe

Ayrton Festival Fun in Switzerland

Main Stage for Stars In Town. Credit: ©Julius Hatt

As the European festival scene kicked back into action following the upheaval and restrictions of the pandemic, Ayrton teamed up with some established Swiss rental companies to support festivals across the country and showcase some of Ayrton’s latest fixtures. Stagelight AG Showtechnik supplied kit to the largest hip-hop festival in Europe at Frauenfeld, the Gurten Open Air festival in Bern and Schaffhausen’s Stars in Town across July and August.Read More »Ayrton Festival Fun in Switzerland

ISE 2023 Sets New Records in Barcelona

ISE 2023 delivered in style for the global AV and systems integration industry and the city of Barcelona (January 31-February 3, 2023). Returning to its normal Jan/Feb timeslot in the AV calendar, ISE 2023 had 58,107 unique attendees from 155 countries, alongside record-breaking occupation in the city’s hotels, bars and entertainment venues, and with exhibitors reporting unparalleled foot traffic on booths across the largest ever ISE show floor.Read More »ISE 2023 Sets New Records in Barcelona

GES Circle Around with Robe

Hugely successful Swedish pop supergroup GES (a nifty acronym derived from the surnames of three of the country’s biggest singing stars – Anders Glenmark, Orup (Thomas Eriksson) and Niklas Strömstedt – continued a rollercoaster tour that started in 2021, wrapping up 2022 with a 33-date sold-out residency at Stockholm’s famous Cirkus venue.Read More »GES Circle Around with Robe