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Thomas Hase's Life in Lighting
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Cincinnati Opera's Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director Evans Mirageas interviews lighting designer Thomas Hase.
Show Notes
- Hase was Lighting Designer at Giessen State Theater (Stadttheater Giessen)
- Hase was Lighting Designer for open-air ballet called The Shadow of Gobustan in front of Gobustan Mountains in Azerbaijan
- Hase mentions that stage lights range from 750-5000W
- Hase pioneered programmable moving lights in opera
- Each light uses a 20A circuit (household breaker boxes use 15-20A)
- History & literature degrees; Masters in Aesthetics (from the Institute of Theater & Design in Cologne, Germany)
- King Louis
- Tosca
- La Boheme
- A Doll’s House at the Abbey Theater in Dublin
- A gobo is a dark plate or screen used to shield a lens from light.
- Bonn, Germany
- Fulbright Grant
- Die Meistersinger
- Cologne State Theater
- Opera Cologne
- Meredith Monk
- World Premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass Erfort, Germany
- Tony Award-winning Company at Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati
- Frida
- Triumphant march in Aida
- The Demon (opera) in Barcelona
- 1,200 lighting units for Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 season, avg. 800-900 lights/season
- Giessen State Theater
- Single-source lighting
- Lighting cues
- Moving lights
- Wash lights
- CAD = Computer-aided design/drafting software
- LED = light-emitting diode
- Tungsten lights
- HID (high-intensity discharge) lamps are used in moving lights
- Aronoff Center for the Arts
- The Magic Flute
- Hase wants to work on The Rake’s Progress and Wozzeck again, as well as The Flying Dutchman
- La Boheme at San Francisco Opera
- Ice (opera based on the Lundberg novel)
- Cincinnati Opera Brat Fry: invented by Hase; Miesfeld’s brats flown in from Sheboygan, Wisconsin for staff, cast, and crew
- Gary Kidney (technical director)
- In the Garden of the Beast
- Sherlock
- The Bridge
- NextFlight app
- Arnold’s Bar (Cincinnati)
- Frank Rich
- Hase mentioned Gilbert Hemsley and Hans Tolstead as two of his mentors
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