Spectacular Opera
LED digital illumination
Cairo Opera House,
Cairo, Egypt
The Cairo Opera House is a cultural landmark renowned for leadership, excellence and imagination. It has carved itself a significant place in the cultural landscape of Egypt and the Middle East.With its appealing mix of high-quality traditional events, and its unique venues as well as its state of the art facilities, the Cairo Opera House is exceptionally suited to fulfill its mission to become a representation of art in Egypt and across the world.
One of the biggest challenges was allowing Philips to introduce a vibrant ambience that changes depending on the performance taking place inside the Opera House.
The Cairo Opera House wanted to increase its prominence as a culturally significant building for the city and the Middle East region so, Philips new lighting concept focused on highlighting the importance of the building as a source of cultural pride and to do this the Philips team applied its innovative Vaya LED lights which create an endless spectrum of colors to highlight the features of this architectural masterpiece, allowing Philips to introduce a vibrant ambience that changes depending on the performance taking place inside the Opera House.
The design consisted of 160 Philips latest Color Kinetics
Vaya LED RGB (Red, Green & Blue) Lighting luminaires.By using its latest LED lighting technology, which has a lifespan of up to 50,000 hours, Philips has also enabled the Opera House to reduce its energy consumption by up to 80% compared to conventional lighting.
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