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Ayrton Bora and NandoBeam S6 light “West Side Story” in Cagliari

In December 2022, Arthur Laurents’ two-act stage musical “West Side Story”, with music by Leonard Bernstein, was staged for the first time at the Cagliari Lyric Theatre in Sardinia. The staging was derived from three major U.S. musical institutions: the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Houston Grand Opera and the Glimmerglass Festival in New York State. The performance, which blends the language of traditional opera with that of the musical, took place from 15th-23rd December, bringing to a close the 2022 opera season with ten English-language performances.

Lighting designer A.J. Guban opted for twelve Ayrton Bora TC and twenty-five Ayrton NandoBeam S6 fixtures for the lighting design taken from Mark McCullough’s original. “The NandoBeam S6 fixtures were used to provide more light sources and even more overlapping of the beams of light, while the Bora units were rigged on the front trusses from where it was possible to cover the entire stage (with a proscenium width of almost 15 m)”, says Andrea Ledda, chief electrician of Cagliari Lyric Theatre’s stage lighting department.

Cagliari Lyric Theatre’s latest purchase of eight Ayrton Bora brings its total investment in Bora to sixteen, with other units from the Ayrton universe in its inventory including 28 NandoBeam S6 and ten MagicBlade. According to Ledda, the Bora TCs are used mainly for work in-house, while the NandoBeam S6 and MagicBlades are also used for events and tours when the Lyric Theatre Cagliari moves outside its main venue.

(Photos: Andrea Ledda/Lisa Guidi)

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