Lighting design

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With ‘Big Performance – Who is the Star in the Star’, RTL has launched a new entertainment show in which celebrities slip into the shoes of other successful singers with the help of make-up artists. Half a song is performed in full playback mode before continuing with the artist’s own voice. The team of panelists, comprising Michelle Hunziker, Motsi Mabuse, and Guido Maria Kretschmer, had the task...

Global design firm, DX7 Design, recently embarked on its second season of lighting the hit American TV dance competition Dancing With The Stars, shot at CBS Television City in Hollywood, California. Production loaded in at the end of August and the show runs for 11 weeks, culminating in the final over Thanksgiving weekend, at the end of November. After featuring GLP fixtures heavily on the last...

With this year’s Summer Night Concert, an event that has been taking place since 2004, the Vienna Philharmonic wanted to send a signal of hope in the year of coronavirus. As a result, the concert went ahead—albeit with a small number of spectators on site—as a live broadcast event on the TV channels ORF2 and 3SAT. The concert production itself, under the direction of Valery Gergiev, and featuring...

The annual Amadeus Austrian Music Awards are the country’s most important music awards, presented for excellence in the Austrian music industry. Since the year 2000, the most successful national artists have been accoladed in various categories. The ceremony traditionally takes place in front of an audience at Vienna’s Volkstheater and is broadcast on ORF, but the pandemic caused it to be...

GLP’s pioneering new KNV series has been used for the first time in Italy, on two high profile broadcast TV shows. The first of these was Radionorba Vodafone Battiti Live, where DoP Massimo Pascucci, featured a large selection of KNV Cube, KNV Dot and KNV Line in the scenography, working alongside set designer Luigi Maresca and show director, Luigi Antonini. This popular musical show is produced...

Kentucky based production designer, Bobby Grey, already had a wealth of real-world experience behind him — ranging from theme parks to theatre, touring and designing top end festival stages — by the time he had reached 30. His passion for sound and lighting dates right back to high school, when he was in a band; and he was soon bitten by the theatre bug. Concentrating on lighting he came under the...

Founded in 1989, Garsington Opera is one of the UK’s largest summer opera festivals, annually held in Wormsley Park, Buckinghamshire. Like so many other productions and festivals this year, the outbreak of Covid-19 saw its entire season cancelled, with the Festival being postponed until 2021. However, as some restrictions slowly lifted, this meant Garsington was able to present semi-staged...

Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Fielmann AG is the European market leader for ophthalmic optics, with 780 branches spread throughout Germany and Europe. In July this year, the company invited its shareholders to attend its annual general meeting. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this took place virtually, without the physical presence of the shareholders. The stage was set up at the...