The three-act melodrama Simon Boccanegra is characteristic of Giuseppe Verdi's determination and modernity. It was staged at the Bolshoi Theatre, which is fitted with a number of Claypaky lights, and broadcast live on a giant screen in front of the theatre itself. This Verdi opera rounded off the La Scala summer tour in Moscow.

In September 2015, the Royal Academy of Music started the academic year with an installation of Panasonic broadcast cameras, introducing a host of new  opportunities to the Academy.

The winner of the IBC2011 International Honour for Excellence is Sir David Attenborough, in recognition of his remarkable career in television and, in particular, natural history. His career spans almost 60 years, with his Atlantic Productions documentary Flying Monsters 3D with Sir David Attenborough one of the most acclaimed programmes commissioned by Sky 3D.

Broadcast connectivity expert SIS LIVE today announced that while Radiohead, Foo Fighters, and Ed Sheeran deliver their music to the assembled masses on Worthy Farm, Pilton, Somerset, SIS LIVE will connect the headliners as well as hundreds of additional artists to the rest of the world. Two dual dish uplinks will be provided that will enable audiences to view performances and information on multiple platforms via mobile phones, tablets, laptops, as well as on BBC TV and iPlayer.

Themed as “Better City – Better Life" the Shanghai Expo 2010 recently started with a spectacular Opening Ceremony, produced by David Atkins Enterprises from Australia, for which a grandMA2 system was used for lighting control. Robert Dickinson and Ted Wells realised the lighting design for this huge event in Shanghai, China. Dickinson commented: “The grandMA2 did the most impossible project ever.”

Anticipation, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Joy, Sadness, Surprise, Trust – eight primary emotions – expressed and experienced during SKALAR, an amazing and compelling piece of immersive kinetic light art created by artist / designer Christopher Bauder and musician / composer Kangding Ray.
 

NTP reports the sale of four DAD AX24 digital audio converters to the Slovak Philharmonic symphony orchestra. These are for installation in a new control room being built at the Reduta concert hall and recording venue in Bratislava.

Although it can be said that the innovative TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) has never been your grandma’s conference, Bob Bonniol, principal creative director of Seattle’s MODE Studios, took a grandMA2 to TED2011 and was happy with the results.

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, entertainment, and technology industries, announced the launch of its Centennial Predict-the-Future Contest. Participants' projections regarding the state of television and cinema technology in 2016, the 100-year anniversary of SMPTE's founding, will be collected from now to Nov. 1, 2013, and the winners — identified by renowned analysts — will be recognized during the Gala SMPTE Centennial Event in 2016.

SMPTE stands for inclusion as one of our guiding principles. We believe that racial bias and intolerance are unethical and weaken our social fabric. We firmly believe that diversity strengthens the media and entertainment world and society as a whole. We support the need for a diverse and free press and celebrate their efforts for independently reporting what is happening across the globe despite challenges in doing so. As an organization, we stand with those who promote inclusivity and seek to enable all of us to make valued contributions. We are a global organization with thousands of members, and we take a firm stance against injustice and intolerance around the world. 

Recently, SMT was invited to have several "cloud conversations" with the Expo Dubai 2020 Organizing Committee, hoping to use SMT's self-developed “cloud-based total solution” to highly integrate multiple “new technologies” and help the Expo Dubai 2020 Organizing Committee to successfully create the first "Cloud Expo", and achieved the destination of breaking the record of online exhibition scale and number of visitors.

Normally spotted in a pristine studio environment, the Sony BRC Series PTZ remote cameras have found a new application documenting the heart-warming story of beautiful lynx cats in a Russian forest.

SNRT, the Moroccan public broadcaster, deployed a newly acquired fly away production solution from EVS for the coverage of the International Film Festival of Marrakech. The new solution has been recently implemented to produce in-house programmes in High Definition and to streamline multicam operations.

Numbers Game – People use social media to connect with friends, family and people of similar interests while social media experts focus on racking up numbers. Firms are coming to grips with the fact that the customer isn’t just a numbers game but the right contact when folks want information or want to share information.

The beautiful Soka Performing Arts Center at Soka University in California hosted the 3rd Soka International Jazz Festival at the end of September. Organised in conjunction with BluePort Jazz, seven outstanding groups performed across the weekend and were recorded in DSD256; the highest resolution digital audio format available today.