Situated in the heart of Aarhus, Denmark’s second largest city, the theatre was built in the 1890s and opened in 1900. Architecturally lavish and the city’s most popular cultural attraction, it boasts four stages and a total of 1,200 seats.

Aarhus Theatre has a long history of investing in new equipment, but with much of its infrastructure becoming old, in the summer of 2018 a complete rebuild was undertaken, including power and stage machinery. Every single cable, hoist, gallery, turntable stage and elevator was pulled out and re …

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Taking over the entire Southbank Centre and its performance rooms for one evening, Arnalds describes OPIA as a celebration of music and film, friendship and collaboration. Headlining in the Royal Festival Hall, Arnalds was supported by featured sets in other areas from piano/electronic duo, Grandbrothers; pianist, violinist, and composer, Poppy Ackroyd; breaks-infused techno, Vaal; R&B from Rhye; and Kiasmos, Arnalds’ collaboration with Faroe Islander, Janus Rasmussen.

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Siril Gaare, Trøndelag’s head of sound, has worked at the theatre since 1998, first on a freelance basis, then making it her full-time home in 2008, before taking up her current role in 2011.

“In 2018 we knew it was time to change our main stage console,” she says. “We were looking for a more mobile and flexible system. We wanted to be able to sit in the auditorium, but still be part of the team during rehearsals. We also missed having an App that would allow us to go on stage to do certain settings from there.”

Gaar …