Playfords have successfully completed the electrical, mechanical and plumbing services for the Royal Opera House Open Up project, an exceptionally prestigious project in the heart of London’s Covent Garden.
The Open Up project will make the Royal Opera House a daytime destination open to everyone, every day from 10am. New bars, cafés, restaurants, shops, free events and unique front of house displays will transform the building making it a more welcoming experience. The brand new Linbury Theatre will become the West End’s newest, most intimate theatre, showcasing the best of art and opera providing a wealth of innovative world premieres, co-productions and collaborations.
Following the successful completion of the Open Up project, Playfords secured further works within the building and are now also completing the new external facade lighting installation and extensive new LED RGB Dali controlled lighting installation. This allows the Opera House to change the colour rendering of the building and reflect different themes by use of the changes of the colours of the lights.
We also worked with the Opera House stage specialists in upgrading the flying systems in the Main Stage auditorium and Linbury Theatre, including the backstage automation equipment.
Additional lighting upgrades were carried out in the Paul Hamlyn Hall, another new LED Dali controlled lighting installation again able to provide full control of the levels and colours of the lighting to reflect the environment for the use of the hall.
