Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
Opening and Closing Ceremonies communications systems
One Line
Stadium Layout
Click on The plan for detail.
This one line diagram shows the functional
interconnection of the equipment and the
plan shows where the equipment was
located in the stadium
View of the stage from the comms control room. Note the Riedel DSP desk panels labeled 1-6 for access to the 6 in ear monitor systems
Here's a view towards the rings stage through the Stage managers room.
The radio interfaces and main Riedel node.
Pete designed storage bags for the outdoors equipment, open at the bottom, and fastened with Velcro at the top, allowed humidity to escape from the bag and wires to stay attached to the beltpacks. Here's one after our first snow storm.
Here's one of the bags in better weather.
Pete Erskine's control desk. The Riedel panel with extra expansion panels above the laptop with a second screen to watch the cross points.
Larry Estrin outside the comms control room before loadin has begun.
Simon Korzen from Riedel hanging around putting up antennas for the radio systems.
over a thousand of Sennheiser in ear packs were used by the performers along with hundreds of Shure packs and almost a thousand FM receivers.
The stage and skating ramps surrounded a seating area for the athletes.
Here are the olympic rings in the performing stage position. There were no platforms, the performers climbed and hung from the rings.
View of the opening from behind Doug Jack, the head Choreographer, at the choreographers position. Note the Riedel panels again.
Andrea the Technical director, Marc Schneider The account exec from Riedel, Julia Whittle the Deputy PSM, Larry Estrin and Sam Hunter the Production Stage Manager.
