Stockholm Stadsteater Purchases BMFL Blades

	Gôsta Bergling Saga Photo: Petra Hellberg

Stockholm's Stadsteater, a prestigious venue in the Swedish capital, has confirmed an order for 12 BMFL Blades ... which will be added to a growing inventory of Robe moving lights in the house.

It is the first theatre in the country to invest in Robe's BMFL range which will be delivered by Swedish distributor, Bellalite.

The Stadsteater is located in a large metal-clad modernist building designed by architect Peter Celsing at Sergel Square in the heart of Stockholm's vibrant commercial and political center. It also contains the Kulturhuset and a plethora of activities including libraries, theatres, debates, art exhibitions, film, dance, and music ... all attracting more than 3 million visitors a year.

The Stadsteater has seven performance spaces including a 700-seat main stage, a 320-seat medium stage, and a 200-seat small stage, plus four other performance spaces including the popular Klara Soup Theatre -- where drama lovers and business people can grab a power-and-performance lunch -- as well as the Puppet Theatre and the Children's Theatre.

The schedule is dynamic, varied, interesting, and highly accessible, with over 1,500 productions staged annually across all the areas. Next season alone, there are four new major premiers in the main house plus one revival from the current season which will all be running in repertoire.

Main house head of lighting Anders "Tuve" Tufvesson and his team are all looking forward to the arrival of the new BMFL Blades just two months after the fixture was officially launched at Prolight+Sound in Frankfurt.

He and Stadsteater's lighting service manager Bobby Leandersson first saw -- initially -- the BMFL Spot in action during a roadshow organized by Bellalite following the worldwide BMFL range launch in September / October 2014. They report they were all impressed with the quality and intensity of the light output, which is perfect for their main stage, they just needed to wait for the Blade version to go into production.

As soon as this happened, the order was placed, and the BMFL Blades will go straight into action for the upcoming season.

They knew first hand from their existing experiences with Robe that the product would be reliable.

Lena Hállstrôm, one of five lighting directors on the main stage relates the story, which also includes the purchase of 12 LEDWash 1200 delivered at the start of 2015 ... which have replaced nine 5K fresnels.

The LEDWashes 1200s are lighter, brighter -- especially in the primary ranges -- and overall more flexible.

They help facilitate quicker changeovers and re-focusing sessions -- essential when working a rep schedule -- and the quality of light emitted, the superior tungsten emulation / effects satisfies most of the demanding lighting designers who work regularly on Stadsteater productions.

Added to that, there's no bulb changing or re-gelling required.

Other Robe's already "in-the-house" include DLS Spots, LEDBeam 100s, LEDWash 300s, and Pointes -- the Pointes are currently in the Kulturehuset. The Stadsteater's first Robe purchase was in 2008 with ColorSpot 700E ATs which are still working hard! That deal was also coordinated by Bellalite's Fredrik Lundberg then in his first year with the leading sales company.

The Stadsteater's Leandersson underlines the rugged build of the Robe products -- saying rarely do any Robes see the ICU / workshop next door to his office on the airy ninth floor. He comments that the Robe units, if they do need servicing, have also been designed with such speed and practicality to the fore, "everything is easy and logical to access and remove or replace."

Current main stage productions utilizing the Stadsteater's LEDWash 1200s include Chicago (lighting designer Palle Palmé) and the Gôsta Bergling Saga (lighting designer Andreas Fuchs).