The curtain raised on the 4th edition of Rome’s Mia Market Thursday night with an eye-popping opening ceremony, featuring a lavish, state-of-the-art, surround-sound live show dramatizing Michelangelo’s painting of the Sistine Chapel while offering a glimpse of the growing market’s sky-high ambitions.
A full house packed into the Auditorium della Conciliazione, just steps from St. Peter’s Basilica, for a performance of “Universal Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel,” a $10 million high-tech spectacle produced by Marco Balich, who’s devised opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Rio, Sochi, and Turin.
With a theme composed by Sting and starring A-list Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, along with a voice performance by Susan Sarandon, the immersive show featured dancers, acrobats, 4K projections onto giant ceiling screens, and floor-shaking 9.1 surround sound.
Mia director Lucia Milazzotto opened this year’s post-Mipcom, pre-afm confab by expressing her hopes that guests...
A full house packed into the Auditorium della Conciliazione, just steps from St. Peter’s Basilica, for a performance of “Universal Judgment: Michelangelo and the Secrets of the Sistine Chapel,” a $10 million high-tech spectacle produced by Marco Balich, who’s devised opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Rio, Sochi, and Turin.
With a theme composed by Sting and starring A-list Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, along with a voice performance by Susan Sarandon, the immersive show featured dancers, acrobats, 4K projections onto giant ceiling screens, and floor-shaking 9.1 surround sound.
Mia director Lucia Milazzotto opened this year’s post-Mipcom, pre-afm confab by expressing her hopes that guests...
- 10/19/2018
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
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