Oh, what a show

Published Monday 21 July 2008 at 18:25

HSL supplied stage lighting, including 16 new Robe ColorWash 750 AT Tungsten moving light fixtures, together with a stage sound system, site-wide lighting and electrics, power distribution and full public address audio to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s 2008 Opera Holland Park season.

For the first time in six years of HSL supplying the event, the moving light elements of the rig were expanded, including the ColorWash 750 ATs together with eight Robe ColorWash 1200E ATs rigged on the box truss and two ColorSpot 1200E ATs rigged on the first advanced bar in the auditorium.

The sold out event featured six full scale productions, performed in rep, two at a time over a 10 week period with music by the City Of London Sinfonia. The event was staged in the park’s new 1,028 capacity high tensile structure arena. Three lighting designers - Simon Corder (La Gioconda/Iolanta), Colin Grenfell (Il Trovatore/La Fille du Regiment) and Peter Mumford (Tosca/The Magic Flute) - were bought onboard to design two shows, Grenfell and Corder. They worked alongside HSL’s onsite project manager Jim Ewart and Sean McGlone to develop a flexible working house rig. The stage lighting rig was run from a WholeHog II console, and looked after by Pete Wright and Jonas Fuglseth for the run of shows.