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South African artist and director
William Kentridge has brought his innovative production
of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” to Brussels Theatre De La
Monnaie where Medialon Manager plays a critical role in
controlling the show’s unusual imagery.
Kentridge’s production of the opera, which has been
touring the world, is set in the 19th century in the
early years of photography and at the height of world
colonialism. The stage design lays out the background,
midground and foreground like an old bellows camera with
the audience’s eyes as viewfinder.
Using a visual language that blends the opera’s themes
of logic and mysticism, Kentridge has crafted geometric
shapes that resolve into images and images that
metamorphose into different pictures. The performers
are surrounded by a world sketched in charcoal then
erased and replaced with video projections featuring
archival footage of Egypt and colonial conquerors.
To choreograph the intricate interplay of images
integrator CANDO installed Medialon Manager to control
three DoReMi MCS servers and manage two Barco SLM R12+
projectors for front and rear image projection.
Medialon also controls two more Barco 6500 projectors,
as needed.
The
project took advantage of Medialon's unique features
including Timeline Synchronization, offering a unique
interface to program synchronized shows with a Timeline
metaphor and Position Tracking, the ability to lock
devices on the timeline, saving a lot of programming
time during rehearsals.
The show has subsequently traveled
to other worldwide operas in France, Italy, Israel and
the United States. Philippe de Winter served as the
initial Video Service Manager for CANDO for the project.
Currently his colleague, Yves Winand, runs the show. |
