The Stage

Roman robe

Published Monday 23 November 2009 at 16:05

Robe moving lights have been employed at the 2009 Histriafestival, featuring performances of three ballets staged in the Roman amphitheatre in Pula, Croatia. Lighting designer, Emil Koller, from Sali Trade (Robe’s Croatian distributor) specified the Robe brand as he needed a versatile moving light ‘base’ for the three different performances - Swan Lake, Bolero and Carmen - performed by the Imperial Russian Ballet from Moscow, and all requiring very different lighting and atmospheric requirements.

Koller used 14 x Robe ColorWash 575E AT Zooms and nine Robe ColorSpot 575E ATs, together with four REDBlinder 2●96s, and a Robe Fog 1500 FT to create understated haze effects. All the lighting fixtures were hung on trusses flown below the 18 x 14 metre Prolyte stage roof which was installed for the occasion. They were positioned on front, mid and rear trusses for the best possible stage coverage. Koller’s production design was drawn up to a demanding brief and had to cover three completely different works, the effects used sparingly and in keeping with the aesthetics and subtleties of the different performances, states Robe. Koller programmed and ran all the lighting off a Zero 88 Frog2 console.

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