Via the music of Brahms, Grieg, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky or Verdi you can travel back in time. A journey that seems so fitting for the city of Jerusalem, which breathes history with every building. It was therefore a perfect match when the music of these well known composers opened the "Jerusalem Festival of Light 2010" with the performance “The Light Concert". Taking place at the Sultan’s Pool in the Israeli capital the concert was merging music and lighting in a high-class event.

Every year at the end of May, Citrawarna Malaysia, the Colors of Malaysia, is held in Kuala Lumpur, commemorating the rich tradition of cultural diversity that defines the nation. This year on May 22nd, leading LED display provider Lighthouse Technologies Ltd. (Lighthouse) and regional rental partner Nova Superscreen brought Malaysia’s culture heritage to life in brilliant, bold color, with three high performance LED displays installed at the main stage.

Conserving and restoring precious murals in a truly professional way is both time consuming and costly, usually taking years rather than months. Not only technical challenges await the specialists, but ethical ones as well. The answers to questions regarding conservation ethics have a direct impact on the actual work involved.
In the case of the beautiful renaissance murals at the Broemserhof in Ruedesheim, Germany, some of these questions led to some inspiring solutions to the problems at hand.

BAPS, a socio-spiritual organization that was established in the early 20th century, is committed to ‘caring for the world’. Affiliated with the United Nations’ Economic and Social Council, BAPS has a worldwide network of 3,300 centers and a total of 55,000 volunteers who are active in moral and cultural, medical, educational, environmental, social, tribal and spiritual activities.

On Tuesday 23 June, Euro Média France started working at the Opéra National de Paris where La petite danseuse de Degas is being performed, a ballet choreographed by Patrice Bart and Martine Kahane, with music by Denis Levaillant. The choreographer and ballet-master of the Opera, Patrice Bart, plunges into the Opera’s past to give new life to the famous Degas statuette.

The 2010 season of BBC Proms in London sees a major advance in television production techniques. Twelve Camera Corps Q-Ball high-definition robotic camera heads were used on stage to televise the July 21 Beethoven Night for transmission on BBC Four. An additional Q-Ball captured images of the audience arriving in the 'Bull Run' at the Royal Albert Hall.

The 45-day-long “Salalah Tourism Festival” (STF 2010) in Oman recently kicked off with a spectacular pageant staged by some 2,500 performers. Every year the festival draws thousands of tourists from Oman and the other Gulf states. This year’s programme was specifically created to coincide with celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of Oman’s renaissance under His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

Teatro Colón, the main opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and considered one of the best five opera houses in the world, was recently refurbished with a grandMA2 full-size console and a grandMA2 replay unit. The venue opened on the 25th of May 1908, with Verdi's Aida, and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008, still closed due to the complete re-fit.

The Metropolitan Opera has purchased a 40-channel Solid State Logic C100 HDS Digital Broadcast console as part of their digital upgrade to 5.1 for the second season of its groundbreaking series The Met: Live in HD. The Met is simulcasting the series, which has already hit a high note with viewing audiences for the last three years, in high definition with 5.1 surround sound to selected theaters across the U.S. and around the world. The C100 HDS enables the Met to bring audio production into the digital realm, and offer the mixing capability and sound quality worthy of the world-class events it produces.

Vaudeville Post is a small company that offers a flexible, creative, post-production sound design service to TV production companies. Specialising in bespoke online, grading and sound dubbing setups, they have worked on many award winning and nominated productions, one of them being the widely-acclaimed ‘The Choir’ for Twenty Twenty Television, part of the Shed Media Group. Their set-up at Twenty Twenty Television – featuring Genelec active monitors - allows them to carry out technically excellent work at a cost-effective price.

Helping to raise awareness for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS around the world, AKG donated nearly 100 wireless microphone systems and handheld microphones in support of the 2010 Life Ball, held in Vienna, Austria. The event, which is one of the largest charity events in the world, is held annually to help raise money and awareness in the fight against HIV/AIDS, with the proceeds from ticket sales and donations going to various non-profit organizations for people suffering from HIV or AIDS.

Built in 2001 the Palace of Republic, Minsk, is the main concert hall of the Republic of Belarus. The building consists of the Big Hall (2,500 seats) and the Small Hall (500 seats), and many of the most prestigious performances in the country are staged here.

In its 41st season, the Oberammergau Passion Play is following new technological routes: For the first time in its almost 400 year history, the organisers are using sound reinforcement. The hardware setup includes a Vivace digital system, used to create virtual acoustics. Vivace systems are used typically to improve the acoustics of environments that are too small or insufficiently reverberant; however, in the large Passion Play theatre with its wide open-air stage, the system has been used for the first time not only to create concert-hall acoustics, but also to provide high-quality speech amplification with accurate imaging.

On the 1st of October 2010, Swiss TV produced the opera Aida am Rhein (Aida on the Rhine) live on air. This was the third live production of a famous opera where the individual scenes only come together to form a whole on the viewers’ screens at home. A large digital audio network comprising numerous STAGETEC components and integrating three digital mixing consoles ensured exceptional sound quality for Verdi’s opera.

Moving an opera is not trivial: Two years of renovation works at Berlin’s Schillertheater are now complete. In October, the theatre will become the temporary home of the Berlin State Opera because the main house at Unter den Linden requires renovation. As a system provider, the SALZBRENNER STAGETEC MEDIAGROUP participated in the project of making the 200-year-old theatre building fit for use as an opera. The high-performance media infrastructure now installed will allow for state-of-the-art drama productions even when the Opera returns to its home in 2013.