GLP Impressions and Ypocs Provide Sparkle for Apassionata's By the Light of the Stars

Europe's most successful entertainment horse show, Apassionata, has just completed its By the Light of the Stars tour. This saw the event visit 30 European cities between November and May, with more than 500,000 tickets sold.

This mixture of horse show and acrobatics was thematically embedded in a romantic story. Altogether, 45 horses starred on the specially-created stage. To reinforce the story, the entire Apassionata manège was continuously bathed in colored lighting, giving extra depth to this equestrian theatre.

Lighting designer Henning Schletter used, among other effects, 20 impression 90 RGB, 12 impression 240 XL, and 36 Ypoc 700 CMY heads, from the German LED moving head manufacturer, GLP.

Schletter has been a freelance lighting designer and operator for many years and is familiar with the impression range of fixtures from productions like the Bambi-Award, or the German Film-Award, where, as a member of Jerry Appelt's technical team, he was responsible for the effects lighting. Henning had already used the Ypoc 700 previously in various shows. "The first time I used the Ypoc, it was for a TV production at the Europapark in Rust. For Apassionata, these lamps became our workhorses, offering everything you would expect from a first-class fixture," he said.

The main technical service provider for the project was PRG Hamburg, who supervised the light, acoustic, video and staging elements of the production.

The upcoming Apassionata tour Together Forever commences on November 5, in Riesa, Germany.