Two key producing and receiving performance spaces – Odeon and Spiegel – in the bustling Netherlands regional epicentre of Zwolle chose Robe moving lights as a vital element of their transition to LED lighting journey, with the purchase of 6 x T1 Profiles, 18 x PAINTE Profiles, 24 x LEDBeam 350s and 24 x LEDBeam FWQ 150 Washes, all delivered by Robe’s Benelux distributor, Controllux.

Theatre

07/03/2025

Schaffelaar Theatre PAINTES the Town

Schaffelaar Theatre in Barneveld, The Netherlands, is a popular and busy receiving house with a constant flow of shows – musicals, dance, cabaret, comedy and concerts of all types – serving the local community with a lively programme of arts and culture. It is also home to the Barneveld’s Symphony Orchestra, and the venue hosts regular business events and private hires.

Theatre

14/02/2025

Robe Flies at The Panto

Lighting designer Andy Webb specified Robe moving lights to be at the heart of his lighting designs for two high-profile pantomime shows in the United Kingdom, The Further Adventures of Peter Pan staged at the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury and Sleeping Beauty at the Festival Theatre in Malvern – two of 11 pantos presented this season by UK Productions.

Events

06/02/2025

Lighting Jedermann in Salzburg

Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Medieval morality play Jedermann has become a legendary and classic centrepiece of the world-renowned Salzburg Festival. First performed in 1920 – directed by Max Reinhardt – when the festival was inaugurated, it has been staged most years since then in the city’s magnificent Domplatz (Cathedral Square).

Investment

31/01/2025

Robe T11 Time for Kunstmin Dordrecht

The Schouwburg Kunstmin in Dordrecht is a busy, bustling theatre and performing arts venue in The Netherlands which has made another major purchase of Robe LED lighting fixtures with 83 x T11 Profiles. These have been added to their Main Hall house lighting rig, replacing all the old, fixed position incandescent profiles and PCs.

Theatre

15/11/2024

From Rock to Opera at Saaremaa 2024

Kuressaare Castle on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, provided a magical backdrop and a beautiful setting for the 2024 Saaremaa Opera Festival, staged in a 68-metre-long 29-metre-wide 2000-capacity temporary arena elegantly butted up to the Castle.

Theatre

12/11/2024

Shakespeare Theatre Gdansk Invests in Robe T1 Profiles

The Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre (Gdański Teatr Szekspirowski) is a Shakespearean theatre in the middle of the thriving industrial port city of Gdansk in Poland. Designed by Italian architect Renato Rizzi, it opened in 2014 and is built on the site of a 17th-century theatre, known as the Fencing School, where English travelling players once performed English Renaissance Theatre works.

Theatre

18/10/2024

Theatre Muzyczny Gdynia invests in Robe FORTES

Theatre Muzyczny (Musical Theatre) – in the attractive seaside city of Gdynia on Poland’s north coast – is the largest musical theatre in Poland with three stages able to accommodate over 1580 people.

Theatre

08/10/2024

Robe Shines for Opera Hedeland

Robe moving lights – ESPRITES, Spiiders, iSpiiders and iFORTE LTXs used as follow spots – all had great impact on the lighting and set designed by Simon Corder for Opera Hedeland’s La fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West) by Puccini, which is set in a ‘Gold Rush’ prospecting town in 19th century western USA.

Theatre

24/09/2024

Assembly chooses Robe for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024

Assembly is right at the heart of the vibrance, action and excitement of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and an integral part of this world-leading celebration of arts and culture, a hotbed of potential new work, talent and ideas providing an innovative forum for experimentalism, drama, humour, music, dance and all things performance.

Investment

02/08/2024

PAINTE-ING GIGANT Robe Style

Gigant is an arts and performance complex in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, comprising two theatre spaces, a movie house, recording studios, a music venue (popzaal) and a café, an invigorating creative space where people can soak up multiple types of performance, expression, live entertainment and storytelling.

Theatre

09/07/2024

Royal Theater Carré is illuminated by ANOLIS

The Royal Theater Carré (Koninklijk Theater Carré) is an attractive Neo-Renaissance style theatre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands located on the banks of the river Amstel. Founded in 1887, it was originally built as a permanent venue for the Carré circus family and their popular ‘horse-play’ circus-theatre shows, but was later repurposed to also stage a variety of performances, revue theatre and operettas. Currently, the impressive circular design 1700-capacity auditorium is used for a mix of musicals, pop and music concerts and cabaret shows.

Investment

04/07/2024

Robe Makes a Positive Impression at the Baltic Opera Gdansk

The award-winning Opera Baltycka (Baltic Opera) in Gdansk, on Poland’s stunning north coast, has invested in new Robe lighting fixtures with the purchase of 18 x TX1 PosiProfiles and four PAINTES which have been installed into its current building.

Theatre

14/06/2024

The Royal Opera of Versailles Invests in Robe

The Royal Opera of Versailles is part of the famous Palace of Versailles commissioned by King Louis XIV and has its own iconic place in French history. Inaugurated in 1770, it was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel and is also known as the Théâtre Gabriel. The interior decoration by Augustin Pajou is constructed almost entirely of wood – for enviable acoustics – and painted with a faux marble technique.

Theatre

06/06/2024

Robe T1s go “Upstream” for National Ballet of Portugal Production

Groundbreaking choreographer and contemporary dance innovator Andrew McNicol presented the world premiere of “Upstream” his first collaboration with the Companhia Nacional de Bailado (CNB) – the National Ballet of Portugal – for which he asked acclaimed lighting designer Yaron Abulafia to create scenography and lighting for the performance which was staged at the São Carlos Opera House, Lisbon, Portugal.

Theatre

21/05/2024

Robe Gets Magical for Mat Franco Las Vegas Residency

Amazing, popular, charismatic, and award-winning American magician Mat Franco’s current Las Vegas residency – “MAGIC REINVENTED NIGHTLY” – is staged at the Mat Franco Arena at the LINQ Hotel+Experience, and is every bit THE hot-ticket in town – a fast-and-furious, thrilling show-stopper full of cool tricks and humor … immersing and delighting fans!

Theatre

10/05/2024

Robe Flies with Hatupatu / Kurungaituku Production

Lighting designer Jo Kilgour created edgy and graceful lighting for Hatupatu / Kurungaituku: a forbidden love, a breathtaking new aerial dance work produced by Aotearoa’s boundary-pushing kaupapa Māori theatre company, Taki Rua Productions. The work, written by creative director Tānemahuta Gray and Kapa Haka by Wētini Mītai-Ngātai, premiered at the Tãwhiri Warehouse in Wellington as part of the 2024 Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts.

Venue

25/04/2024

Robe Spiiders for TPAC

The spectacular Taipei Performing Arts Centre (TPAC), which contains three world class performance spaces – The Grand Theatre, the Globe Playhouse, and the Blue Box, has recently invested in 40 x Robe Spiider LED wash beam luminaires, which will help light an array different of productions staged at the venue.

Cruise Ship

23/04/2024

Robe PAINTES and LEDBeam 350s Add More Carnival Magic at Sea

The action-packed 1500-capacity Showtime Theatre show lounge and central entertainment hub of the 306-metre long Carnival Magic cruise ship has been recently upgraded with the installation of 30 x new Robe PAINTE, 30 x LEDBeam 350 and 12 x miniPointe moving lights, which were installed while the ship was still in operation around Miami.

Television

11/04/2024

Robe for Brigada Tech TV series

Brigada Tech is a new Spanish TV series presented by Luján Argüelles, directed by Eva Castillejo, and lit by Manuel Ricoy, broadcast on prime time LA1 the first TVE (Spanish Television) channel of RTVE (Radio y Televisión Española, S.A.). The format sees ‘digital mentors’ and popular SoMe influencers assisting people with limited access to the information superhighway in tackling assorted digital challenges that can benefit their day-to-day living.

Venue

04/04/2024

Over 200 Robe Fixtures for Schouwburg Gouda

De Goudse Schouwburg (Gouda Schouwburg) is a busy municipal theatre and hub of the arts community in the city of Gouda in the Netherlands – also world famous for its cheese!

Theatre

03/04/2024

Robe Footsies Crack It at Orlando Ballet

As the cornerstone of its 50th Anniversary Season, the Orlando Ballet commissioned a spectacular new production of The Nutcracker, one of the world’s most popular and most performed ballets, which debuted last December.

Theatre

26/03/2024

Robe Gets Wild in Singapore

Wild Rice @ Funan is part of a modern performing arts complex sitting at the heart of Singapore’s buzzing civic and cultural district. Built in 2019, the main Ngee Ann Kongsi Theatre space offers an intimate 358-capacity space with Singapore’s only thrust stage, which was inspired by the Royal Shakespeare Company’s famous Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in the UK.

Theatre

18/03/2024

Robe Rocks the Circus Again

Rock Circus Volume 2 – a completely new version of this exhilarating performance concept – returned to the stage at IFEMA in Madrid, Spain, produced by Productores de Sonrisas, choreographed by Albert Sala and lit by Juanjo Llorens with a set design by Anna Calvo. The show meshed the thrills of extreme circus with a string of the most inspiring and monumental rock anthems!

Venue

12/03/2024

Robe Helps Perpetuum Celebrate 40 at Ljubljana’s Cankarjev Dom

Popular Slovenian vocal group, Perpetuum Jazzile, celebrated their 40th anniversary with a series of high-profile shows at Ljubljana’s Cankarjev Dom, the country’s biggest theatre venue, asking Crt Birsa from design studio Blackout to create lighting suitable for the occasion.

Venue

08/03/2024

Robe FORTES in Heaven

Lighting designer Mikael Kratt was super happy to be among the first visiting creatives to use the Royal Danish Opera’s new Robe FORTE moving lights in a recent production at the Copenhagen Opera House.

Theatre

07/02/2024

Panto Time for Robe

Lighting designer Andy Webb didn’t have any hesitation about which additional production lighting he wanted on the rig for two high-profile UK 2023-24 pantomime seasons … and that was Robe!

Theatre

18/01/2024

Full Frontal assault for Robe Tetra2s at Dutch National Ballet

Stark, raw and provocative, “Full Frontal” is an uncompromising new dance piece by choreographer Juanjo Arqués billed as ‘a ballet about real people and actual feelings’ set to “Weather One” a musical score by Michael Gordon. It was presented by the Dutch National Ballet and staged at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. It explores the stresses and tensions of our fractured and often polarised society as it faces physical obstacles that swap – ironically – with psychological projections of challenging conditions.

Theatre

11/01/2024

Robe Helps De Tocht Production Look Icy Cool

De Tocht is an exciting new ice-based musical production staged in the purpose-built 1475-capacity Friso Theater in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Directed by Eddy Habbema and choreographed by Marc Forno, the production design was created by Luc Peumans, artistic director of Painting with Light (PWL), whose brief encompassed lighting, video and scenography, an ambitious collage of visual disciplines to capture all the skating action presented in “spectacular” style.

Investment

14/11/2023

Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES

The Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen has invested in 80 new Robe FORTE luminaires in a package featuring 32 x FORTE Profiles, 34 x FORTE Fresnels, 4 FORTE FollowSpots and 10 x iFORTE (IP rated) moving lights, as part of a technical upgrade to ensure that this high- profile venue can offer its productions and creative teams the most appropriate and sustainable technologies to create and craft their art.

Television

11/10/2023

Robe Fixtures Plays Key Roles in James the Musical

James the Musical is a new Belgian live broadcast concept – and runaway success – staged at the beautiful NT Theatre in Ghent and produced by Dedsit.

Investment

19/09/2023

Bellevue Theatre Chooses Robe TX1 PosiProfiles

Bellevue Teatret (Bellevue Theatre) is located in Klampenborg, a desirable suburb north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Its scenic location is about 100 metres back from the beach, and stunning views from the front of the building overlook the Øresund strait.

Theatre

31/07/2023

Small is Beautiful for Robe Getting Back to its Base

Basement Theatre in Auckland, New Zealand is living proof of how the ‘small is beautiful’ concept can become a hub of creative endeavour, a hot bed of ideas, experimental art, and the instigator of lively political and social discourse as well as an inclusive place for talented live performance imagineers to hone their craft.

Arena

18/07/2023

Robe Gets intoxicated with Helene Fischer

It’s been a busy year so far for lighting designer Tim Routledge, including crafting a stunning production lighting design for Helene Fischer’s audacious new ‘LIVE 2023’ arena tour collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, which is playing to sold out audiences across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland until the autumn, presenting an energetic collage of a 360-degree production, seat-edge acrobatics, and superlative musical performance.

Theatre

07/07/2023

Robe T2s and Tetras are on the Money for Theatre Royal de la Monnaie de Munt

The impressive façade of the Theatre Royal de la Monnaie de Munt (Royal Theatre of the Mint) in central Brussels dates to 1818 and announces The National Opera of Belgium in great style and presence. Belgium’s leading opera house is a federal funded institution taking the name of this theatre in which it is housed – ‘La Monnaie’ in French or ‘De Munt’ in Dutch – referring both to the building and the opera company itself.

Exhibition

23/06/2023

Robe at ABTT 2023

The Robe UK team report a busy, successful, and very positive ABTT (Association of British Theatre Technicians) expo staged at Alexandra Palace in London, UK.

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News

Zwolle theatres Choose Robe

Schaffelaar Theatre PAINTES the Town

Robe Flies at The Panto

Lighting Jedermann in Salzburg

Robe T11 Time for Kunstmin Dordrecht

From Rock to Opera at Saaremaa 2024

Shakespeare Theatre Gdansk Invests in Robe T1 Profiles

Theatre Muzyczny Gdynia invests in Robe FORTES

Robe Shines for Opera Hedeland

Assembly chooses Robe for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2024

PAINTE-ING GIGANT Robe Style

Royal Theater Carré is illuminated by ANOLIS

Robe Makes a Positive Impression at the Baltic Opera Gdansk

The Royal Opera of Versailles Invests in Robe

Robe T1s go “Upstream” for National Ballet of Portugal Production

Robe Gets Magical for Mat Franco Las Vegas Residency

Robe Flies with Hatupatu / Kurungaituku Production

Robe Spiiders for TPAC

Robe PAINTES and LEDBeam 350s Add More Carnival Magic at Sea

Robe for Brigada Tech TV series

Over 200 Robe Fixtures for Schouwburg Gouda

Robe Footsies Crack It at Orlando Ballet

Robe Gets Wild in Singapore

Robe Rocks the Circus Again

Robe Helps Perpetuum Celebrate 40 at Ljubljana’s Cankarjev Dom

Robe FORTES in Heaven

Panto Time for Robe

Full Frontal assault for Robe Tetra2s at Dutch National Ballet

Robe Helps De Tocht Production Look Icy Cool

Royal Danish Opera Invests in Robe FORTES

Robe Fixtures Plays Key Roles in James the Musical

Bellevue Theatre Chooses Robe TX1 PosiProfiles

Small is Beautiful for Robe Getting Back to its Base

Robe Gets intoxicated with Helene Fischer

Robe T2s and Tetras are on the Money for Theatre Royal de la Monnaie de Munt

Robe at ABTT 2023

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