CHINA - The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing has staged Aida with the lighting designer Vinicio Cheli and a whole group of Italian professionals known worldwide: stage designer Ezio Frigerio, director Francesco Micheli, costume designer Francia Squarciapino, and Sergio Metalli, who dealt with the video projections. Cheli was asked to design the lighting for Verdi's opera...
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – An incredible rig of over 300 Clay Paky fixtures, including 93 Stormy CC strobes, have created the ultimate immersive rave on Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF). Lighting designer André Beekmans of Eindhoven-based lighting design house The Art of Light created the extraordinary lighting concept for the two-day event, which saw a line up of the biggest electronic dance...
Malaysia - Acoustic & Lighting System (A&L) successfully held an open-house event on 17 November 2015 to introduce Clay Paky's The Projectors series: the Scenius, Mythos, Supersharpy and Stormy. A&L held a similar show in Singapore earlier this year, and chose to repeat their success in Kuala Lumpur to welcome the Scenius, the latest member of the series. The open-house event was held in...
Utrecht, The Netherlands – Lighting designer Luc Peumans of Painting With Light has cast Clay Paky Mythos and Sharpy Wash 330 fixtures to play a starring role in his design for a Dutch stage production of Whitney Houston cinematic classic The Bodyguard. The musical, produced by Stage Entertainment, opened in September at the Beatrix Theatre in Utrecht. Peumans specified 24 Clay Paky Mythos and 36...
DUBAI. Media Interactive Agency, under the artistic direction of Cynthia Chbat Mounir, contacted GDL to turn the presentation of a luxurious Japanese car into a show. Under the Art Director’s supervision, Production Director Mirco Resta and Lighting Designer Emiliano Morgia sought the best possible venue to present the car. They looked for a place that would meet the customer's specifications...
USA – For singer-actress Ariana Grande, diamonds are definitely a girl’s best friend. Lighting designer Chris Kuroda used a diamond motif for Grande’s “The Honeymoon Tour,” deploying Clay Paky Stormys and A.leda B-EYE K20 fixtures to deliver a sparkling, jewel-like look. “The Honeymoon Tour,” Grande’s first international tour, is playing 88 dates worldwide in support of her second studio album,...
Moscow – Clay Paky's lights were the big stars of the Circle of Light Festival. The distinguishing feature that determines the success of this major international event, which is held annually in Moscow, is visual technology (video and lights) applied to the metropolitan context. In 2014, the event drew no less than six million people! This year's Circle of Light was held from 27 September to 4...
Germany - The Frankfurt Motor Show (Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung or IAA) is 118 years old this year. It all started way back in 1897 at the Hotel Bristol in Berlin, when eight motor vehicles were put on public display. From those beginnings, a regular show came into being. In 1991, the event was split into a car show, which is held on odd-numbered years in Frankfurt, and a commercial...
SPAIN - Matadero de Madrid welcomed the first Masterclass in Spain about the lighting designers: Al Gurdon and Peter Canning, who have illuminated shows like Eurovision, the halftime of Superbowl or the opening and closing of Sochi Olympic Games. The event has been organized by the professional lighting world leading company Clay Paky and by its Spanish distributor Stonex. Lighting on Air is the...
Japan - Clay Paky and PRG KK, the Italian company's sole distributor in Japan, held a workshop at the TFT Building Complex in Tokyo on 14 and 15 October. It was mainly focused on the Scenius, the Clay Paky spotlight that recently made its debut on the world market. The Scenius features an exceptionally high CRI (96) and fits a 1400 W - 6000 K OSRAM discharge lamp. Together with the optical unit...