Second Stage of Mariinsky Theatre

St. Petersburg, Russia

Project start: 09/2007
Completion: 05/2013
Project type: New building
Venue type: Opera house, Ballet theatre, Music theatre
Seats:

2000 seats
Our services:

Schematic design, design development, preparing of tender documents and construction site supervision for stage machinery and stage lighting
Contact: Architect: Engineering company OAO KB ViPS
Client: Company ZAO TDM

 

Below you will find more details about stage equipment:

  • Steel structure including grid level, level of pulleys, point hoist level, galleries and catwalks, machine rooms
  • Over 80 powered fly bars (with lateral fly bars and proscenium fly bars)
  • 9 backstage fly bars
  • 58 point hoists with movable point hoist carriages
  • Technical proscenium consisting of movable proscenium lighting bridge and 2 movable proscenium towers
  • 30 powered fly bars in rehearsal hall
  • 3 vertically movable lighting bridges (back and at the sides)
  • 1 house curtain, Greek (traveller), German (guillotine) and Italian (tab) opening styles
  • Various mobile scene-changing curtains and roll-up curtain
  • 4 double-deck stage platforms 16m x 4m
  • 3 orchestra pit lifts with movable orchestra railing
  • 3 transportation platforms
  • 3 spotlight storage systems (rotating storage system)
  • Stage wagon system (passive) with 16 stage wagons and 38 compensating lifts on the side stages, backstage, in assembly and rehearsal areas
  • 8 trap lifts
  • 1 movable prompter box
  • 1 turntable
  • 1 acoustic shell
  • 1 decoration storage system, fully automated
  • 1 backdrop storage system, fully automated
  • Assembly crane system, including 38 chain hoists (payload 500kg) on side stages, backstage and delivery area
  • Proscenium safety curtain, 10 fire-protection and acoustic separation doors
  • Stage flooring
  • Complete electric and electronic layout of the centralized control system including main and secondary control consoles for all drives of the overstage and understage machinery as well as safety-related systems.
  • 3 digital lighting consoles for 9999 devices and 16384 DMX parameters, transmission via Ethernet
  • 3D visualising with bi-directional connection to the consoles
  • 3 radio remote controls
  • Digital secondary consoles as touchscreen panels with secondary functions control
  • Digital dimmer system in 3 dimmer rooms
  • Complete installation including connection boxes
  • Network installation, partly as fibre optic cables and W-LAN
  • New spotlight equipment, including:
    • 650 units halogen profile spotlights
    • 55 units HMI-profile-spotlights
    • 200 units multi-chamber halogen flood lights
    • 150 units halogen-lens spotlights
    • 350 units PAR-spotlights
    • 25 units HMI-follow spotlights
    • 62 units HMI-lens spotlights
    • 60 units moving-head – multifunctional spotlights
    • Color-string color-changers
    • Mechnical dousers
    • Motorized yokes
    • Various effect-devices
    • Various spotlight auxiliaries

 

 

Phase 1 Design

completed

Phase 2 Construction

completed

Phase 3 Handover

completed