Tiziano Ferro Stadi 26 Tour Features CHAUVET Professional Gear

	The lighting setup featured five 32.8'-long in-line truss systems, automated and arranged across the entire width of the stage.

Italian singer-songwriter Tiziano Ferro performed this summer on a ten-city tour. Providing a visually rich backdrop was Giovanni Pinna's lighting design, integrated with Comix-created video content displayed on a 10,673-sq.ft. screen.

Pinna worked closely with creative director/stage designer Gio Forma, video director Cristian Biondani, associate lighting designer Marco De Nardi, and programmer Marco Zucchinali, on the show. Critical to their creative fusion was a collection of 26 Maverick Storm 3 BeamWash moving heads and 55 Color STRIKE M motorized strobe washes from CHAUVET Professional, imported by Zalight and serviced by Agora.

"The content and all interactions with the LED walls were meticulously crafted and carefully planned from the start," Pinna says. "Thanks to our direct contact with Comix, the English company that created all the content, we already had a clear vision of the work they were preparing six months in advance. With this in mind, we reviewed the content for each song, but above all, we worked on the interaction between content, automation, and lighting."

The lighting setup featured five 32.8'-long in-line truss systems, automated and arranged across the entire width of the stage. The fixtures on this truss continuously interacted with the LED wall content. For many songs, automation framed the content, creating a multitude of looks and video matrices. This dynamically defined new spaces and greatly accentuated the interaction between content, lighting, and automated truss systems.

The video component of Stadi 26 wasn't that invasive," Pinna says. "Of course, we're talking about a huge screen, but it was used with great care and also very well calibrated, leaving a lot of space for the lights compared to many other situations in which you have such a large LED wall as a backdrop; so, I absolutely can't complain; in fact, the result in many cases was exceptionally good, both in terms of balance and light output.

"In this balance between LED walls and lights, the Maverick Storm 3 BeamWash and Color STRIKE M were fundamental," he continues. "The Mavericks did a tremendous job. I dedicated them mainly to lighting the choreography, which was one of the central motifs of the show -- keep in mind that there were ten dancers on stage, and more than half the show was choreographed. I used 18 Mavericks alternating on the front of the stage for backlighting, and another eight, always on the ground, for the dance floor area: three plus three external and two plus two internal. They were almost always dedicated to the choreography, with cuts to Tiziano and the dancers; used constantly."

Pinna used the Maverick fixtures for audience lighting in addition to accenting the dance routines, explaining that he called on for "high-quality colors," and a zoom wide enough to guarantee widespread coverage of the stage and the catwalk. "In short, I used them in their essence as washes -- color and power -- and they really gave me a lot," he says.

Already familiar with the Color STRIKE M through his work designing for Vasco Rossi, Pinna praised their performance. "The Color STRIKE Ms were another key piece of the show," he said. "They covered the entire width of the stage and always worked at 100-percent. They were the real 'hard core' for illuminating the audience. Beyond that, they did a lot of 'graphic' work, both in effects and color, with an extremely strong impact on the show."