Over the four festival days, many lighting designers and operators talked positively about the performance of the Robe fixtures, especially the Pointe and the MMX Spot. The set designer was Giuseppe Mazzoni from GMF Arquitetos. Two grandMA light consoles and a grandMA ultra-light were networked at FOH and there was also an MA onPC command wing and a grandMA2 light in the 3D studio for programming.
Lighting control was from MA Lighting, with support from their specialist Paulo Lebrão. In total the lighting team comprised 13 people working before, during and after the festival. Technician Carlos Umbelino from Sao Paulo based rental company Apple was there to give support for the Pointes and freelance technician Emerson, also from Sao Paulo, tech’d the LEDWashes and followspots at FOH.
Gaffer Paulo Lebrão looked after all the photography needs together with Junior programming and operating the 12 x LEDWashes at FOH, while technicians Viny of MA Lighting and Adriel of Luzbel coordinated the 3D visualization suite on site where all the band designers could pre-program their shows in advance. The Main Stage lighting set-up took eight technicians from Luzbel five days. On the LEDWash, he comments: “It’s great! Really bright! You can use it for a million applications – like photography, lighting the band, the stage in general – everything! These are the best quality LED wash fixtures on the market, and for me, the MMX Spot is the best Spot currently available!” Junior was impressed by the Pointe and its multi-functionality: “You can use it as spot, then turn it into a wash, a beam… I really love these features!” he said.
The color temperature used for photography and video was 5600 K, chosen together with Multishow, the TV channel that broadcast the event live and exclusively every night. This wonderful LED device by Robe worked perfectly”. Junior – also the LD for well-known artist Ivete Sangalo – comments: “The Pointes were a big innovation this year together with the fact that we replaced Fresnels for LEDWashes as the ‘photography’ lights.
Several LEDWashes were positioned at FOH to illuminate the scenic façade surrounding the stage for the photographers when singers or dancers were strutting along the front catwalk.
Most of the Robe devices were rigged on three huge U-shaped trusses above the stage, and six diagonal trusses – three per side – and two E-shaped structures each side of the upstage LED screen. The stage had various dimensions – the main performance space was about 20 meters wide with 26 meter catwalks each side and a 19 meters long front runway extended into the audience. More details from Robe ( The design process took about two weeks, during which Junior consulted with his crew and technicians and also to make sure he could satisfy all the artists’ riders and create a plot that would fit most of their requirements. The setup included 36 Robin Pointes, 12 MMX Spots, 24 LEDWash 1200s, 14 ColorSpot 1200E ATs and 12 ColorBeam 700E ATs. 1.) For the main stage, rental company Luzbel Iluminação provided Robe fixtures to meet the specifications of LD Junior Luzbel, who heads the locally based production company with his brother Ricardo Luzbel and his business partner Ricardo Gordilho. SALVADOR - More than 120,000 tickets were sold for the 16th Festival de Verão (Summer Festival) held in this city, the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, during a recent four-day span (Jan.