The Royal Danish Theatre’s fairytale LED lighting

ENTTEC collaborates with the Royal Danish Opera, using their lighting solutions to create a multidimensional sensory experience for The Snow Queen – an interpretation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale.

ClientPlaymodes
TypeEntertainment, Live Event
LocationThe Royal Opera House, Copenhagen, Denmark
PRODUCTSPixelator Mini, PLink Injectors
Year2023
project creditsProject: The Snow Queen Project Design: The Royal Danish Theatre Production director: Francisco Negrin Set design: Palle Steen Christensen Costume design: Louis Désirè Choreography: Toniah Pedersen Lighting design: Bruno Poet and Matt Daw LED installation: Playmodes Studio
Photography Per Morten Abrahamsen

The Royal Danish Theatre have staged the first ever production of a newly-written opera, The Snow Queen – an interpretation of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale by one of Denmark’s most eminent composers, Hans Abrahamsen. Production director Francisco Negrin wanted to create a multidimensional sensory experience. Conventional lighting by renowned designers Bruno Poet and Matt Daw was used in collaboration with an LED lighting installation by Spanish audiovisual studio Playmodes, known for their architectural lighting designs. ENTTEC Pixelators and the Pixel Link system were chosen to control an innovative and immersive light show. Pre-production, conceptual design-making and rendering between the artistic team and the Royal Danish Theatre took roughly two years, followed by two weeks of physical LED lighting installation and a further two weeks of on-site programming. The net result was an innovative and immersive audiovisual experience that changes the perception of what an opera can be.

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Powered by 10 x Pixelators, 172 x PLink Injectors

Lights.

Lit up by 155,000 LED Pixels

Stig Debois 

Project Manager at The Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen

“ENTTEC’s products were by far the most operationally secure and stable available. With a super effective and fast support system on any issues we might have had, ENTTEC has been the best possible hardware partner in The Snow Queen project.”

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