As part of the Warsaw Mozart
Festival, which has been running for more than 20 years, lighting designer Adam
Tyszka this year took on responsibility for an open air performance of the W.
A. Mozart opera “The Magic Flute”. This opera took place in the courtyard of the
17th century Museum of King Jan III Palace at Wilanow, thus using
the prestigious façade as a beautiful backdrop for lighting and video creativity.
The concept and location of
this event, being open air and using the façade as a backdrop for multimedia
content, limited the use of truss. Any type of roof above the stage would cause
the truss/construction pieces to obstruct the view of video projections onto the
façade. Therefore, the lighting designer relied on the technical crew’s ability
to protect the equipment located close to the stage.
Owner of main lighting supplier Setlight, Przemyslaw Wrembel, asked SGM’s Polish
distributor LTT to supply 12 G-Spot moving heads for testing. “Considering show
requirements, we concluded that G-Spots having IP65 protection would ensure a
safer, easier and more elegant solution than any possible attempts to protect
regular IP20 moving heads,” says Wrembel. And the decision was clear after the
testing: the G-Spots were undoubtedly the right choice.
Further to that, several
dozen P-5 wash lights, which were provided by Transcolor, were put to use – most
of them used for façade illumination.
The G-Spots were placed close
to the stage, directly onto the grass, where there was no truss or protection.
“Traditional IP20 moving heads would be exposed to dust, moisture from the
ground, as well as all kinds of ants, worms and bugs, which can really cause a
considerable mess. Finally, the weather forecast also gave cause for safety
concerns. But we were confident that G-Spots would withstand all of it,” states
LTT’s Pawel Jarzabek.
Concerns about the weather were
justified, as Warsaw was struck by a thunderstorm and heavy rain on the day of
the premiere, just ten minutes before scheduled opening. The show was delayed
for about 45 minutes, until the storm subsided sufficiently to allow the
performers’ safety on stage. “But the G-Spots worked throughout without any
problems. They were completely indifferent to the rain,” comments Jarzabek.
The amazing lighting show was
programmed on a grandMA2 full-size console operated by Kajetan Gostomski.
After a successful event, the
only thing left to do for LTT back in office was to clean the lenses from dirt
and air pollution residues and the fixtures were ready for yet another job.
