Placemaking
Glyndebourne Opera House
System Upgrade
year
2024
capabilities
Design & Engineering
Asset Coordination
Fabrication
Machinery Automation
Integration
Service & Support
TAIT has upgraded the automation facilities of this unique opera house to ensure that future generations of creatives can continue to advance the operatic artform. This has included fitting a 69-bar automated flying system into a very limited grid space alongside lighting bridges and point hoists.
Glyndebourne Artist Director Stephen Langridge
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Glyndebourne Artist Director Stephen Langridge
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Working in close partnership, TAIT and Glyndebourne have successfully completed the first phases of the extensive automation upgrade, ensuring that, in its 90th anniversary year, this unique theatre has facilities that fuel further creative potential for operatic performance.
Automation operator Dan Klay
The collaboration included the development of new iQ software features, design of bespoke lighting bridges and the upgrade of the counterweight flying system to provide fully powered flying, with reconfigurable point hoists.
Glyndebourne now boasts an holistic automation system that delivers new capabilities and makes repertory performance smoother, including new efficiencies achieved by technical cross-department integration. A unified control system for all automation: above, below and on the stage.
Credits
Electrical Subcontractor
Push the Button
LAB at Rockwell Group
Bristol Myers Squibb Kinetic Chandelier
Image provided by Madison Phipps
Sam Smith