The opening ceremony of the Beira-Rio stadium in Brazil featured more than 500 Robe lights

Robe's lighting technology was the choice for the opening ceremony, which was held at the beginning of the year, of the remodeled Beira-Rio football stadium in Brazil, location where the World Cup matches will take place 2014.

The Beira-Rio Stadium, the second largest in southern Brazil and home of the football team Sport Club Internacional, has completed its remodeling, in time for the celebration of the main matches of the FIFA World Cup 2014.

Located in Porto Alegre, next to Guaiba River, and with a capacity for 56.000 people, the stadium was officially re-opened last February for whose ceremony the lighting technology of Steal. The show, designed by Patrick Woodroffe, it featured 531 moving lights from this manufacturer that were specified and supplied by the Brazilian rental company LPL.

One of the challenges they faced in creating this show was to ensure that the lighting worked in harmony with the eye-catching projections.. In addition, there was a cast of 500 actors and dancers, more than 400 musicians and had to light up a presentation of Fatboy Slim, which concluded the four-hour show.

To illuminate the playing field completely, the stadium was divided into three sections or layers. The top, mounted on the roof above the grandstand and the farthest from the performance area, contained the most powerful devices, ColorWash 2500E AT, ColorSpot 2500E AT and Robe ColorBeam 2500E AT, along with 24 RobinMMX WashBeam and 96 of the 113 Robin Pointe. These were the main devices to throw light on the playing field, in addition to illuminating the audience.

The WashBeam MMX, due to its framing shutters, were also used to point out specific objects and artists, while the Pointe were used to help recreate various moments of the football team as the show unfolded. later, a Pointe was used as a follow-spot over a piece of props simulating a time capsule transported throughout the field.

The second layer of lights contained, chiefly, beam lights using 5R lamps plus some Pointe, Additional ColorSpot 1200EAT and ColorWash 1200E AT.

The third consisted mostly of 66 LEDWash 600, located around the perimeter of the field for wash effects throughout the area with large color sweeps, intense and bright.

In each of the four corners of the field behind the line of LEDWash devices 600 Had 5 Pointe, for special effects and shoot intense beams from the angle that cut the entire playing field.

In addition to the main action in the field, there were two minor mobile stages participating in the show that came and went on stage at different times., in one there was an orchestra and in the other a number of local pop and rock bands.

When Fatboy Slim took the stage to shake up the Beira-Rio Stadium, was surrounded by 50 of the small LEDsBeam 100 of Robe mounted on the scenic floor by the staff to perform quick movement maneuvers, difficult to achieve with larger or heavier appliances.

At this point the stadium multimedia show was transformed into a giant psychedelic party of electronic music with lighting that gathered multiple colors, gobos and textures shooting in all directions, giving energy and reaching all the people on the premises.

The light show was programmed and operated with two full size grandMA2 consoles by Sergio Antonio and Paulo Lebrão. they, together with LPL technical directors Bruno Lima and Caio Berti, Caesium Lime and Woodroffe.

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