Among Germany’s largest opera houses, the Leipzig Opera is setting new standards with a recent comprehensive technical modernisation that includes a high-performance Riedel system.
Planned by Graner+Partner and implemented by Sigma TBL, the opera house is now using Riedel’s MediorNet real-time media network, Artist intercom platform, and Bolero wireless intercom system for latency-free communication and flexibility in day-to-day production. A central element of the modernisation is the new Aduart stage management system, which communicates with the Riedel infrastructure via open interfaces. It comprises two main consoles, a mobile console, 28 info displays, 112 light signs, and 435 IP loudspeakers, and enables higher-level, intuitive control of the entire stage process.
At the heart of the Riedel installation is a MediorNet fiber-optic backbone, which integrates Leipzig Opera’s comprehensively renewed video system with 19 PTZ cameras. The MediorNet network ensures real-time signal transmission, de-embedding, and embedding of audio signals, as well as multiviewing. This guarantees that image and control signals for the conductor monitors arrive with virtually no latency – a decisive factor for musical performance. Thanks to MediorNet integration via NMOS and Ember+, the video system can be controlled directly via touchscreens on the stage management consoles.
In addition, an Artist intercom ecosystem with 31 SmartPanels, 42 Bolero beltpacks, and 20 Bolero antennas was integrated to optimise the communication flow throughout the venue. Using the RRCS interface of the Artist-1024 audio matrix, and AES67, Madi and Dante protocols can now be conveniently triggered via the stage management console, for example to control individual IP loudspeakers.
‘With the new infrastructure, our processes are much more efficient,’ says Oliver Gerds, Leipzig Opera Technical Director. ‘The seamless communication, the flexible routing of audio and video signals, and the ability to control everything in real time offer enormous advantages in our day-to-day operations.’
‘The close cooperation with Graner+Partner and Sigma TBL has allowed us to develop a tailor-made system that significantly increases both work safety and efficiency,’ says Riedel Communications Sales Manager, Bernhard Bauer. ‘This installation ensures that the traditional opera house is ideally equipped to meet all the challenges of future productions.’
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