>> in various meetings related to immediate strategic
The Royal Opera House is one of the busiest Opera
issues, these can vary from problems over the
Houses in the world, not all theatres organise
size of sets, how much they cost and the
things in the same way, so the term ‘Technical
practical issues of actually making it happen.
Department’ can encompass various disciplines. At the Royal Opera House, Technical includes
Later in the morning I have a meeting to plan The
lighting, sound, broadcast, flys, stage engineering,
Royal Ballet tour technical budget for summer
logistics, costume, wigs & makeup, Linbury Theatre
2007. We have to plan a long way ahead and we
and events technicians, daily stage crew teams,
often have to ‘leapfrog’ staff to keep up with the
specialist project teams and stage management.
punishing tour schedules that they have to maintain.
We also have our warehouse in Wales where we store our sets.