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Romanian National Opera invests in Robe

The Romanian National Opera in Bucharest (Opera Nationala Bucuresti), Romania’s leading national opera and ballet company, has invested in Robe moving and LED lights, which were delivered at the start of the year via Robe’s Romanian distributor, Senia Music.

The new investments include iFortes, Spiider LED wash beams, LEDBeam 350s, Tetra2s and ParFect 150s, totalling over 100 fixtures, a decision that was overseen by the Opera’s maestro, Daniel Jinga who is also the creative director and general manager - as well as chorus master and principal conductor - of the Muntenia Symphony Orchestra in Targoviste.

He has been at Opera Nationala Bucuresti for four years, where he immediately recognised that a technical upgrade was overdue and set about getting the funding in place. An upcoming production in 2026 of the musical “Phantom” was a further catalyst to kickstarting the process of getting contemporary production lighting installed. Jinga led the lighting team into looking for a solution.

The most important change - apart from being able to light shows more imaginatively than before using lights with greater scope and more features - was that the Opera has advanced from being dependent on rental and external factors for moving lights, to being practically self-sufficient. Lighting designer Stefan Dragu has worked at Opera Nationala Bucuresti for thirty years and recalls how the previous moving lights in the house (from other brands) were getting old and tired, so the need came to replace them. 

The lighting department produced a wish list of essential features for any new luminaires, which included power, functionality, silent running, high CRI, and good shutters, among other things. They then started looking at the options and Robe was voted as the best choice. They had previously had a couple of old Robe ColorSpot 1200E ATs in the house, and Robe products were frequently among the rented-in items for various shows, so they did know the brand, but are now in the position of being able to fully service their own productions.

A typical season will see two musicals and one opera running in rep, and over the year there are nearly forty operas, musicals and ballets presented in the 1000-seater classic horseshoe shaped main auditorium, lit by a giant illuminated chandelier. The lighting crew of ten will support the LDs of incoming shows when there is one, and when there is not, will step up and design lighting themselves in conjunction with that show’s producer and director.

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