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Claypaky partners with Teatro Donizetti

The Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo, Italy, has been the city’s most important opera house for more than two centuries and hosts an intense schedule of plays, operas and symphonic music. In November 2022, Claypaky signed an agreement with the Teatro Donizetti to supply the new Sinfonya Profile 600 moving heads, specially designed for use in theatres.

The Sinfonya Profiles have enhanced the lighting stock at the Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo’s città bassa (the “lower town”) and at the Teatro Sociale in the città alta (the “upper town”), which is also part of the Teatro Donizetti Foundation.

Lighting Designer Emanuele Agliati of K 5600 Design used the Sinfonya Profiles for the opera semiseria “Chiara e Serafina”. “I used the Sinfonya fixtures mainly for side lighting, which often acted as key lighting”, he says. “This opera is a dramaturgical reworking of the original libretto in a 1930s variety show setting. I tried to reproduce the atmosphere of those years as best I could by using very warm lights and huge contrasting shadows.”

The Sinfonya Profile 600s were installed on battens about twelve feet above the singers. “I used them for two purposes. Firstly, to recreate the warm atmosphere typical of incandescent light sources, in combination with the PARs and Svoboda ADBs already installed in the opera house”, continues Agliati. “Secondly, when the scene suggested, they conjured up cooler atmospheres, with peaks of up to 7000 K-8000 K. I kept to these two different colour temperatures throughout the whole opera.”

The Donizetti Festival Season also featured performances of the operas “La favorite” and “L’Aio nell’Imbarazzo”, with lighting design by Peter Van Praet.

(Photos: V.L. Belotti/Photo Studio U.V./Gianfranco Rota)

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