This prestigious Russian theater now features two native 4K laser projectors from Digital Projection, an automated lighting equipment of Elation and a sound system of EAW to attract the next generation of viewers.
Despite being located thousands of kilometers east of the best-known cultural centers of Russia, Moscow and Saint Petersburg, the city of Irkutsk has a long and historical theatrical tradition of its own. Among its many spaces in this sense, the Irkutsk Academic Theater from NP Okhlopkov, the oldest in Eastern Siberia and the cultural center of the region.
Founded in 1850 and currently celebrating 170 years as a cultural institution, those responsible for this theater have recently completed an ambitious project to update its technical systems.
For this they have turned to the Russian specialist Light Power Design (LPD), which has installed a automated lighting equipment latest generation of Elation Professional; a sound system of the range Adaptive Systems from EAW, and two projectors native 4K laser from Digital Projection.
How do you explain Alex Gnatyuk, Digital Projection Business Development Manager for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), “LPD has been working with our teams for many years and they have always been more than satisfied with the result. When they received the request to upgrade the Irkutsk Theater, they asked us for a new system, on the first line of 4K native resolution and projection technology.
Although the Irkutsk Academic Theater has a tradition of technical excellence, the management decided that the best way to captivate the new generation of spectators was to use more modern means of communication with its audience.
When Mikhail Morozov, CEO of LPD, began to shuffle ideas related to holograms, the head of Digital Projection suggested that Insight Dual Laser 4K was the perfect system for such an ambitious project.
«We were the only projector manufacturer DLP 4K natives with an acceptable price in the Russian market – points out Alex Gnatyuk-. We provide them with a Titan Laser 37000 WUXGA and a Insight Dual Laser 4K, as well as seven lenses for different purposes ”.
The Insight Dual Laser 4K projector offers 27,000 lumens of brightness and 20,000 hours phosphor laser light source, resulting in minimal maintenance cost.
This team is capable of creating additional figures and crowd scenes using a braided silver net as a projection surface, although this is still not very common in the theater given the difficulty of creating holographic content.
“The main problem in the start-up of the project was to guarantee the operability of the entire system with 4K content without compromising quality,” adds Alex Gnatyuk. The goal was to ensure that the audience was fully immersed in what was happening on stage. ‘
Delivery difficulties and work restrictions due to the pandemic “also increased the complexity of the project. However, despite these obstacles, the entire process went smoothly by LPD’s team of specialists, ”says Gnatyuk.
“We were looking for the best possible solution for the theater, in addition to ensuring the best image, light and sound quality,” said Mikhail Morozov, CEO of LPD. We needed to make sure that, first and foremost, the equipment was reliable. Digital Projection, with the IP60 sealed optics found in its projectors and its five-year warranty, was the best choice to create the most reliable system that will delight viewers for years to come. “
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