Vienna State Opera invests in Robe's Led Forte HCF moving lights

With the option of high Cri Led motor, the Vienna State Opera (Austria) has invested in new Led Forte HCF moving lights and FollowSpots Steal, using the manufacturer's TE transferable motor technology.

With an intense program of works, the Vienna State Opera, also home to the Austrian state ballet, with the capacity to 1.709 people, has Replaced its old generic apparatus of Manual Focus FOH Tungsten, with more powerful and sustainable luminaires from Robe, supplied by Signal, your distributor in Austria, in addition to improving their traditional followSpots.

specifically, ten luminaires have been purchased Led Forte HCF and four FollowSpots HCF of Steal "which work in conjunction with a control system RoboSpot personalized", as you point out Robert Eisenstein, Deputy Head of Lighting, Vienna State Opera.

These luminaires integrate the technology of TE transferable motor from the Czech manufacturer, a powerful lighting solution, smart and eco-friendly that allows you to use different high-power motors, high CRI, Etc. on the same devices, which can be easily changed in about five minutes.

With a distance of projection of 50 metre to the stage from FOH positions, Eisenstein, explains that they needed more powerful and quieter luminaires, as they have to be installed in a partially encased area and noise escapes and reverberates throughout the enclosure.

The options they had tried were too big., noisy or underpowered, until they met the Forte luminaires, that Robe introduced earlier this year, along with the FollowSpot version, with the advantage of using the same luminaire with the same light quality.

The Forte HCF version of the Led engine was necessary to achieve perfect skin tones, thanks to the optimal color reproduction and the range of adjustable whites it offers.

The follow-up spot rooms of the Vienna State Opera are located in the upper gallery, in the middle of FOH lighting positions, that were already very small in terms of space, so it was essential to have a small luminaire.

In addition, wanted the ‘human touch’ of the operator instead of r a tracking system, so the FollowSpots are equipped with kit handles LightMaster of Robe, so that it is possible to control the size and intensity of the devices manually, while the other parameters are executed through the main lighting console Etc GIO.

Custom software allows the output of built-in FollowSpot cameras to appear on monitor screens fixed to the system box wall, along with some of the features of the RoboSpot system, allowing you to simultaneously view the stage in classic style.

It is also possible to activate or deactivate the cross marker through the LightMaster buttons, as well as zoom in or out of the camera. “Robe was flexible and willing for us to work with his RoboSpot software to get the precise solution we needed.”, remember Robert Eisenstein.

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