Lighting designer for the production was Richard Vabre with Resolution X supplying the equipment. This production gave Victorian Opera's head electrician and programmer Peter Darby an opportunity to spec a grandMA2 control package.
"The grandMA2 light is a fantastic console to program with", says Darby. "We got some fantastic support from Show Technology. I love the grandMA2 light as it's so flexible and so powerful. We had a primary grandMA2 light with another as a slave. That way I could programme with the secondary grandMA2 light in the stalls with the primary console in place doing all the processing - the networking side of the grandMA2 consoles is one of its most brilliant features."
Darby particularly likes the flexibility of the grandMA2 light.. "The grandMA2 has a much more integrated and powerful effects engine behind it compared to the original grandMA console," he says. "Another great feature is the built-in colour picker which I find the designers love. At one point we were running two grandMA2 light consoles, a laptop running grandMA2 onPC and another computer running the grandMA 3D visualizer. We built the whole show and plotted it with grandMA 3D at Res X's warehouse as we knew we'd have a very limited bump in time." Show Technology Australia is MA Lighting's exclusive distributor in Australia.
(Jim Evans)
