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Giovanni Pinna chooses Claypaky for Vasco Rossi stadium tour

Vasco Rossi went on a short concert tour that crisscrossed Italy in 2023. As always, Giovanni Pinna was in charge of lighting and made extensive use of Claypaky fixtures. “The set design changed radically this year”, says Pinna.

“We mainly used 70-by-26-metre stages based around a triangle: there were three triangles of automated battens of different dimensions around a large central triangular LED wall. Each batten was fitted with a modular rig complete with all the lights.”

Pinna says he deliberately chose to use only three kinds of moving lights so that the stage was as uniform as possible. He used 148 Claypaky Hy B-Eye K25 units and 70 Claypaky Tambora Batten Squares as key lights, along with a few new Claypaky Skylos fixtures. “The Hy B-Eye K25 units were a very important part of the line-up”, he says. “You could even say they made the show on their own for several pieces.”

“The tour started in May, so there was a lot of sunlight throughout the first part of the show, for about an hour”, continues Pinna. “Therefore, I needed a spotlight that would ‘shine a lot of light’. I used Hy B-Eye units with white light for the first six pieces. Then, as darkness came, I added colour. I have to thank Marco Zucchinali of Claypaky for his support with the programming.”

Another key element of the rig was the “square” version of the Tambora Batten. “I arranged 54 Tambora Battens on the triangles on the ceiling and sixteen on the ground, for which I had scenic stands built where the Tamboras are recessed to conceal their bodies and leave only their light sources visible”, explains Pinna. “They are very bright lights and can often be used on stage by themselves. I also used them abundantly as washlights on the band.”

The LD also used four Claypaky Skylos units. This was their international début. “I used them in pairs on both sides of the proscenium, especially for some pieces where their power stood out, like ‘Gli Spari Sopra’. I then used them during the breaks, so as to create a show within the show.”

The lighting and special effects equipment was provided by BOTW of Pomezia. Gio Forma handled set design. Fabrizio Moggio was chief lighting technician, and Marco Piva the D3 operator.

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