When Northern Light won a competitive tender to provide an advanced technical infrastructure for the new £35 million Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, the company set out to design a fully-integrated system that were versatile, reconfigurable and provided the facility to carry out remote system diagnostics over a LAN via a PC. With three audience tiers (including fixed-seating balcony and upper … [Read more...]
ETC Eos for Portuguese National Ballet Company
ETC’s Portuguese dealer Luzeiro has supplied ETC Eos control desks to the country’s National Ballet Company for use at the Camões Theatre in Lisbon and on tour. Vitor Paiva, Luzeiro’s sales technician, explains: “The company’s previous system failed on a regular basis, and they asked us for information about replacements. We showed them both Congo and Eos, and they tried each for a week. While … [Read more...]
ETC Eos lighting control: a workhorse for the theatre
The world of theatrical lighting is constantly changing. Moving lights, scrollers and media servers have all found their way into traditional theatre spaces as designers adopt tools and tricks from concert and special event lighting. Yet traditional theatrical lighting desks were not equipped to handle today’s lighting rigs. And with busy production schedules and large lighting staffs, using … [Read more...]
More New Shows Choose FocusTrack
The spring season has seen a number of high profile new plays and musicals choose to use FocusTrack to give them a complete, accurate record of their show lighting, ideal for maintaining the show over a long run, transferring it to a new venue or taking it on tour. In New York, the these shows include the musicals Come Fly Away and The Addams Family and the play Red. Come Fly Away, the Twyla … [Read more...]
ETC Eos for Love Never Dies
Love Never Dies, the long-awaited and highly anticipated sequel to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash-hit musical The Phantom of the Opera, opened in London in March with an ETC Eos control desk and a plethora of ETC Source Four Revolutions and Source Fours. Control for the rig as a whole is from an ETC Eos control system, including an Eos 8K desk and RPU backup together with a remote video interface … [Read more...]
