The Muziekcentrum is one of three entertainment venues operating on the same site in Enschede in the eastern Netherlands, and recently, the old house orchestral lighting has been replaced with 16 x Robe T1 Profiles and 16 x T1 PC moving lights, all delivered by Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux. Wilminktheater is the theatre space in the same complex. Head of lighting Paul de Vries has been...
Aalborg Musikkens Hus (House of Music) is a gleaming, futuristic architectural masterpiece, standing prominently on the water in Limfjord in a new cultural district of Aalborg, Denmark’s bustling fourth-largest city and major port. Opened in March 2014, the building offers a 1300-capacity main concert hall, a 600-capacity recital hall, plus numerous practice rooms and is home to the Aalborg...
Halo – a leading London-based event production company founded and run by Yann Guenancia – has a long relationship with Robe lighting, going back to the early 2000s, when the company first invested in a set of 20 x Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs. Back then, event lighting was only just starting to embrace the flexibility offered by moving lights and these Robe products were a bold move by Halo, based on...
The 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee final week whittled nearly 250 genius spellers from across the USA and around the world down to 10 super spellers who spelled off a thrilling live televised finale to the famous contest. The event was staged for the first time in a new venue, the DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC. Lighting ‘Bee Week’ – also for the first time – was John Viesta, invited...
Groene Engel – Green Angel in Dutch – is a lively cultural hub located in the city of Oss in the south of the Netherlands, which stages music concerts, films, theatre productions, comedy, dance events, educational debates, pop quizzes, and a plethora of visual arts events. The lighting rig was recently upgraded with three types of Robe moving lights – 12 x PAINTES, 12 x LEDBeam 150s and 8 x...
Llewellyn Hall at the Australian National University in Acton, Canberra, ACT, is a heritage-listed building and hailed as one of the finest concert halls in Australia – known for its great acoustics and, more recently, a fabulous new Anolis auditorium lighting scheme, which highlights its architecture and features with understated elegance. The venue is currently managed by the Venues and...
Robe moving lights continue to be a popular choice for theatres in the Netherlands, with the new Theater aan de Parade in Den Bosch providing another great reference site, with over 200 Robe products in the house lighting rigs of its two principal performance spaces. The contemporary glazed architectural masterpiece designed by MVRDV sits on the footprint of the previous 1976 theatre building...
Metallica’s phenomenal record-breaking M72 stadium tour continues to play sold-out venues across Europe, supporting their eleventh studio album, 72 Seasons. It started in Amsterdam in April 2023 and continues to delight Metallica fans around the globe. The tour features an impressive 120-foot-wide, in-the-round stage designed by Dan Braun, including a centre-ring pit area and a spectacular...
Duinrell – a combined holiday, amusement park and water park in Wassenaar, South Holland, which is popular with families – celebrated 90 years of operation in 2025. It started as a family park in 1935 on the historic estate of the Van Zuylen van Nijevelt family, a short distance from the beach, and is one of the Netherlands’ best-loved and most successful theme parks, attracting 1.4 million...
Ulster Hall, a vibrant concert and entertainment venue that is part of the ICC complex in central Belfast, Northern Ireland, has recently received a new lighting installation featuring nearly 60 fabulous Robe moving lights, including 9 x ESPRITE Profiles, 25 x PAINTE Profiles and 25 x LEDBeam 350s. This is part of a general upgrade for the venue, which is also a Grade A listed building dating to...