Taiwan - When Kaohsiung, the second largest town in Taiwan, won the hosting of the World Games 2009, work started immediately and two years later, in January 2009, the first tests were conducted to open the new Kaohsiung Stadium.

Once testing was completed, planning for the stadium's opening ceremony started, and in May everything was ready. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera Chorus together with four top soloists were among the performers for this event.

Two grandMA full-size consoles were used by Henry Wu, Rom Zhau and MG Kao who completed the lighting design for the show and operated the consoles.

Rom Zhau comments: "The grandMA is fast, stable and intuitive - that's exactly what I needed. Running two desks gave us the comfort of splitting the programming work and having a reliable backup. Nothing could go wrong on a show that was this high-profile."

(Jim Evans)


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