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Zucchero on tour with Ayrton

Italian singer-songwriter Zucchero celebrates his 40-year career this year with his “World Wild Tour 2023”, which kicked off in New Zealand in April, before returning to Zucchero’s home town of Reggio Emilia on the 9th and 10th of April where he played at the RCF Arena, formerly known as Campovolo.

With these two shows, Zucchero inaugurated the new-look Campovolo which now has a 35,000-seat capacity, and a purpose-built 5% slope that ensures optimal views and acoustics across the whole site, making the RCF Arena the largest outdoor music venue in Europe.

Zucchero’s lighting designer Daniele De Santis chose sixty Ayrton Cobras for the key feature of his lighting design for these two special shows. The fixtures were positioned around the entire structure of the 80 m wide by 18 m high stage, with the function of defining the frame of the whole stage and visually enlarging the lighting system.

“The goal was to extend the lighting system in all directions”, explains De Santis. “The concert area was very large and it was important not to exclude any part of the audience. I didn’t want those sitting at the sides or at the back - at about 200 m away - to feel excluded. I wanted each of them to feel they were part of the concert, and that they were enveloped in the beams of light coming from the stage. I didn’t envisage putting lights on the delay towers precisely because I wanted everything to emanate from the stage, the central point from which all the lighting began.”

The Cobras, which were supplied by Agora, were in action for a week in all weather conditions, without ever being covered during the night. “An hour before the debut on June 9th, there was a sudden water bomb that spilled over the entire Reggio Emilia area, with deluges of water and very strong wind, that forced us to shut down the system for safety”, says De Santis. “Once the storm passed, we started to turn everything back on with the concern of having ‘lost’ some fixtures. The Ayrton Cobras restarted as if nothing had happened and did their job without any worries.”

(Photos: Francesco Prandoni)

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