XL Video supplied plasma screens and full Catalyst media management and control for the acclaimed National Theatre of Scotland current production of Macbeth.

Live concerts with a quick change over of acts are the sound engineer’snightmare. Dealing with hundreds of channels is enough of a challenge withoutworrying if essential parts of your recording chain might fail. Floating Earth provided the sound facilitiesfor the Jubilee Concert and Pyramix was the natural choice to deal with keyparts of the signal chain.

Robe was the exclusive moving light fixture specified by lighting designer Avi Yona Beuno (Bambi) for the new production of Carmen at the 2012 Israeli Opera Festival, staged at the charismatic location of the foot of Masada Mountain by Israel’s Dead Sea.

Leading UK lighting rental company HSL sent over 500 lighting fixtures and crew to the Dead Sea for the third consecutive year to service the 2012 Israeli Opera Festival at Masada, which premiered a brand new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” directed by Daniel Oren.

The spectacular culmination to a weekend of celebration for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee was the concert that was staged at the Queen Victoria Memorial, against the backdrop of Buckingham Palace. Organised by Gary Barlow – and, incidentally, earning him an OBE – it featured some of the biggest names of the world of entertainment, from Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones, to Elton John, Paul McCartney, Kylie Minogue and Cliff Richard. Sennheiser UK, renowned for its unwavering support at such spectaculars, was on hand throughout with expertise and equipment that ensured an event that was, literally, fit for a Queen.

Clear-Com®, a global leader in critical voice communication systems, is pleased to announce that its Eclipse Median digital matrix intercom and V-Series key-panels played an integral role at the recent Diamond Jubilee celebration of Queen Elizabeth II’s 60 years on the English throne. Delta Sound, a U.K.-based provider of sound design, equipment rental and sales, and communication systems and services, employed three Eclipse Median intercoms and more than a dozen V-Series user control panels to facilitate fast, reliable communications between the event’s sound, lighting, pyrotechnics, security and stage-management production teams.

Centrepiece of the recent spectacular celebrations for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee (QDJ) in London, UK, featured a massive concert staged just in front of Buckingham Palace around the Queen Victoria Monument (QVM), which was lit by Durham Marenghi and broadcast live worldwide on the BBC.

As part of this year’s summer of events and sports coverage ACS kicked off celebrations with one of its most ambitious deliveries to date. Following on from the successful coverage of commemorative services and events including last year’s Royal Wedding, ACS was chosen by BBC Events to help provide specialist camera facilities for the Jubilee with planning beginning late last year. Included within this delivery, ACS supplied and operated eight SMARThead™ remote head camera systems on board the Royal Barge at the Jubilee River Pageant.

The award-winning wysiwyg previsualization suite from CAST Software of Toronto, Canada was part of the royal fanfare at the recent Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, held at Buckingham Palace, celebrating the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign.

With throngs of people travelling to London to see the Diamond Jubilee celebratory events taking place, Creative Technology (CT) was asked by event organisers Innovision to provide huge modular displays in Trafalgar Square and St James Park and to supply signal distribution and supporting engineering services to the various mobile screens installed in the Mall and the Palace Forecourt.

Clay Paky Sharpys, sporting Union Jack coverings, shone brightly alongside some of the world’s most famous pop royalty to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee.

MOOV Limited, the U.K.-based graphics company of choice for leading broadcasters including BBC, ESPN, RTÉ, ITV, Sky Italia, and Channel 4, relied exclusively on Chyron HyperX³ on-air graphics systems for the Diamond Jubilee honouring Queen Elizabeth II that took place June 2-5.

With more than 4.000 colorfully dressed attendees at the 20th annual Life Ball, Europe’s biggest AIDS awareness charity event and fashion show, representatives from around the globe gathered to help raise awareness and charitable donations to fight the disease.  The “Fight The Flames of Ignorance”-themed event’s performances and speakers were brought to life through premium wireless microphones and in ear monitoring systems by Vienna-based HARMAN’s AKG.

Sunny weather the day before the Diamond Jubilee Flotilla at least allowed for final prep to be done in dry conditions writes Ken Kerschbaumer for SVG Europe.

The technology, flexibility and reliability of Yamaha audio equipment has made it the benchmark for today’s live music industry. However, many venues feature installations of high specification Yamaha technology performing functions which are just as important and advanced, but much less visible. A prime example is the DME series of digital mixing engines, which are a major feature of one of Europe’s most technically advanced venues, the Helsinki Music Centre.