UK - White Light has supplied the first SeaChanger colour engines to be used in the UK to the Royal Opera House in London.

"For our new double production of the operas L'Heure Espagnole and Gianni Schicchi, the American lighting designer Mimi Jordan Sherin asked for a number of scrollers in our FOH positions," explains Royal Opera House lighting manager Simon Bennison. "Unfortunately for the Opera House and auditorium conditions this was not really possible - but it left us with a sizeable FOH lighting issue to solve - we needed a powerful and silent colour mixing solution for a tungsten unit."

Subsequent research by the ROH's Michael Scott and Paul Hornsby led them to the SeaChanger Colour Engine. "White Light supplied a demo unit which impressed us all enough for us to order eight SeaChangers, the first in the UK."

The SeaChanger colour engine is a dichroic colour-mixing system designed to be fitted to ETC's Source Four profile spots; the self-contained unit attaches to the front of the Source Four's lamphousing, and any Source Four lenstube is then fitted to the SeaChanger.

The ROH's SeaChangers are used in 26° 750W Source Fours, providing a six-point front wash onto the frontcloth and downstage portal of the set.

(Jim Evans)


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