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The Queen of Ice: a success with DTS

A splendid Lorella Cuccarini plays the role of the evil queen in the musical inspired by Puccini’s Turandot, ‘The Queen of Ice’. The show is directed by Maurizio Colombi, who has already been the director of other very successful musicals, such as Rapunzel and Peter Pan.
Colombi gives an even more fantastic reading of the work that takes place in Beijing “at the time of fairy tales …” with the introduction of new characters close to the sensibility of a very young audience and using the most modern video mapping and lighting technologies.
The rental company Suono e Luci installed the RAPTOR beam moving heads and the NRG 1201 LED wash fixtures by DTS for this important production.

“I imagined for this musical strong color contrasts, many nuances for the narrative part, with colors tailored for every scene or environment” – told Alessio De Simone, Lighting Designer of ‘The Queen of Ice’ – “from the iced and dark winter of China (therefore a need for cold temperatures and shades from red to blue) to modern museums with paintings and glass cases (characterized by a warm orange and a 3200K key light), from the interior and exterior of houses and squares, to the happy ending – a triumph of light – with the return of the sun and the love that blossoms between the two protagonists.
The choice of lighting fixtures fell on the NRG 1201, placed on the side edges and on the trusses; I appreciated the multiple features of this versatile and compact LED moving head, from zoom to RGBW colors.
Also, after a careful comparison with other fixtures, I chose the RAPTORs, integrating them in the light plot as beam projectors and in some scenes as wash lights. The RAPTOR has these unique features, especially when you use the frost along with the prism. This configuration offers a wide and uniform beam, giving the lighting designers the powerful backlight they need for highly emotional scenes. No other competitor can offer this feature.”

We thank Alessio De Simone for his great courtesy and kindness.
Here below you can read the full interview where Alessio De Simone describes how he made the lighting design of the musical ‘The Queen of Ice’.