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Robe DL7S installed at Thalia Theatre Budapest

Budapest’s Thalia Theatre is in the ‘Pest’ side of the Hungarian capital and is a producing and receiving house, presenting around 600 different productions per year. The venue stages musical comedy shows on its three stages, the largest of which has a 520-seat auditorium.

The theatre has recently invested in Robe's DL7S LED Profiles and Spiider LED wash lights - which are the first to be installed in a Hungarian theatre venue. The luminaires were chosen by head of lighting Karoly Bodon and his team, and delivered by Robe's Hungarian distributor AVL Trade.

The new fixtures are currently all in use on the main stage, and there are another six DL4S profiles on order which will be utilised for the second stage when its current refurbishment is complete. The theatre is operated by the city of Budapest, but the new investment was financed by a combination of the district and national government.

The decision to upgrade the main stage lighting came whilst work was being done on the Winter Garden second stage, which is having a complete makeover including a new sound system being supplied by AVL Trade and a complete technical refit. It was decided that the time was also right to replace the old main stage lighting with some newer LED options. Previously, they had only conventional lighting in the main house.

The Robe Spiiders are used for a lot of back lighting and for washing and colouring large surface areas like the stage and various sets. These are the first Robe fixtures as well as the first moving lights for the Thalia Theatre - the previous investment in lighting was back in 1997. Thalia is also the first Hungarian theatre with a GrandMA 3 console.

Pictured: Karoly Bodon (on the left) with AVL Trade's Csaba Csanádi.

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