LSI Projects at The Royal Opera House

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LSI Projects at The Royal Opera House LSI Projects have had an account with Canford since at least 2000, and in that time, they have supplied LSI with no end of cable, MDUs, 19” racks, patchbays and other audio and installation items. LSI themselves have been in business for 27 years installing lighting, sound, and audio visual systems and equipment into theatres, television studios, conference centres, hotels, schools, colleges, universities, and cinemas. Another type of venue is Opera Houses, which LSI have had a run of recently – ROH Muscat, Dubai Opera and, most recently, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. As part of the overall £50.7m Royal Opera House refurbishment, LSI Projects were fortunate to be awarded works in 5 spaces as part of the ‘Open Up’ project: The Linbury Theatre, The Clore Studio, Restaurant Level 5, and the Paul Hamlyn Hall and the Front of House foyer spaces.

proscenium, or in the round) performance space for smaller scale productions of both opera and ballet, as well as for other shows, concerts, product launches, exhibitions, and dinners. Working to the consultant Charcoal Blue’s design, LSI supplied and installed the AV cable infrastructure, and facility panels, but this time with over 1600 tie lines across audio, video, data, fibre, MADI (Multichannel Audio Digital Interface), and loudspeaker feeds, and 25 specialist hybrid camera cables. All the tie lines are fed back to a central sound rack room, where they can be re-distributed to almost anywhere in the building. This alone involves 9 large Canford-ES 19” racks, 2250 cables, and 4500 terminations!

The Open Up Project The main idea behind this was to ‘open up’ the Front of House areas with inviting new entrances, extended foyers and terraces and a new café, bar and restaurant, together with an extensive programme of ticketed and free daytime events, activities and festivals for people of all ages and to make the Royal Opera House open to the public every day from 10am. LSI installed the AV cable and facility panel infrastructure to a design from the consultants ARUP. This included 630 tie lines, across audio, data, and video feeds, as well as Canford custom SMPTE camera cables, which allow broadcast quality signals to be fed into the ROH system. The Linbury Theatre Previously called the Linbury Studio, this completely refurbished 400 seat venue, acts as a flexible format (thrust,

The Royal Opera House’s redesigned Linbury Theatre © Hufton + Crow, 2018

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