Knight Crew Opens

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Knight Crew has opened at Glyndebourne Opera House, to 4 star reviews, many of which mentioned the use of projection in the show. Pictures and links below:



And as much as Gramophone muddled my name and that of the movement director it is very nice to see such a traditional journal warming to the use of projection in Opera.

One of the major challenges for the show was filming two of the singers underwater, for the overture, told almost entirely in video and for the big love aria towards the ends of the first part. I spent a day at The Studio in Clapham working with my colleague at Mesmer, Dick Straker, using a Sony EX-3 in a Aquaflex housing to get the camera to where ever we wanted it to be in the tank. You can see some of the results here.









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