AUSTRALIA - After successfully supplying the Australian version of Dancing With The Stars with lighting and rigging for fourteen seasons, Resolution X has again delivered for the fifteenth. "We are proud of our long association with DWTS and each season we have seen the lighting evolve from the last" said Tim Hall Managing Director of Resolution X. This year was no exception with the addition of...
Merano - The Rock The Lahn Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. The stars of the 2015 edition were Limp Bizkit, led by the extrovert Fred Durst and champions of the nu metal and rapcore movements, along with the Broilers, a punk rock group active on the German music scene. The Festival has become a must-see event in this region in just a few years. The recent editions have fully...
Italy - Dirty Dancing is a worldwide success that shows no sign of losing its charm. On the contrary, it continues to thrill and entertain new and old generations thanks - among other things - to its faithful theatrical adaptation, which allows you to relive all the excitement and magic of the film in a live show. Since 2004 (the year of its world début) Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage...
Austria - Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" was performed for the first time in 1986. The musical is based on the 1910 novel of the same name by the Frenchman Gaston Leroux. It is the most successful musical of all time: it has been staged in 27 countries and seen by an audience of over 130 million theatre-goers. Lord Lloyd-Webber and the Real Useful Group granted the...
Italy - Next to Normal has been one of the most successful musicals on Broadway in recent years. It is a discontinuity: a small revolution in the world of musicals. It has arrived in Italy thanks to the far-sighted planning and production of the STM (musical theatre school) in conjunction with the Compagnia della Rancia (Rancia musical theatre company). The musical made its début as a preview on 7...
ITALY - Nile Rodgers, the guitarist and founder of Chic, is the man who got the entire planet dancing to the rhythms of The Freak and Good Times. He has also left his mark on famous songs by Diana Ross, David Bowie, Duran Duran and Madonna, right up to a recent cooperation with Daft Punk (3 Grammy awards: album of the year, single of the year and best duo performance with Pharrell). He performed...
Italy - Clay Paky was a main attraction at Campovolo 2015 thanks to Lighting Designer Jo Campana. Campovolo was a three-and-a-half hour music festival organized to celebrate Ligabue's twenty-five year career. The 150,000 tickets sold for over seven million euros makes it an all time record for Italy. This year, the production team concentrated on two priorities: making sure the entire audience...
Las Vegas, USA - The 2015 edition of LDI revealed a lively market, and was yet another success for the Italian company. In addition to gaining the visitors’ approval for its new products, Clay Paky also won the two most significant international awards. Clay Paky's innovative new scanner the SPHERISCAN won the LDI Best Debuting Product award “for making the scanner fixture relevant again and...
Germany - Vive la France was the motto of this year's Wassershow at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg. The four largest water events in Europe were dedicated to Louis XIV, the French King famous for the water shows he held at Versailles. They took the spectators on a virtual journey through La Grande Nation. The combination of fire, water, video, lights, lasers and music involved almost all the expanses...
Italy - Francesco De Gregori has appointed the lighting designer Andrea Coppini to design the lighting at his concerts for several years now. In recent years, Coppini has often relied on Clay Paky equipment. Tell me Andrea, how did you meet and get to know De Gregori? “I have been working with Agorà for more than ten years. I met De Gregori in the summer of 2008, when I stood in for his previous...