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