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Friday, September 12, 2025
Lana Del Rey’s Stadium Tour mesmerizes with Hippotizer-Powered Visuals
LightSoundJournal.com: LED walls, IMAG screens, and holographic projections elevated U.S. singer Lana Del Rey’s five-date summer stadium tour across the U.K. and Ireland, delivering a “theatrical and emotionally charged spectacle,” powered by Hippotizer Media Servers.
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Reece L
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This article is really interesting. I have of course heard lots about Lana Del Rey, but have never really listened to her music. I never realized that she had a fan base that would warrant a production of this size. This production looks incredible, and reminds me of Eurovision in some ways! The entire house set on stage, with video walls and projection surfaces surrounding it looks insane! I don't know much about video, but would love to learn more about the media servers that were discussed in the article! I would also like to hear about the load in process, strike, and traveling with this rig, as it looks massive. I am curious if there were any complications with traveling across the UK and Ireland with this amount of gear. I have always been curious about how artists collaborate with the other creatives for their concerts, and it sounds like Lana was pretty heavily involved which I find very cool!
I love when you can so clearly see the influence of live theater on other art forms such as live concerts. The light design and video media design are out of this world, but I also want to touch on the entire house design that they pulled off for this tour. The house set, combined with the lighting of the different shadows moving throughout the floors, is so immersive, especially for a concert. It feels like the audience is transported to a land that is so similar to where we are now, and yet Lana del Ray’s music provides that other-worldly aspect. I also completely agree with Lipson in how he has commented on the impacts of the house on the overall stage. Specifically, the idea that this set anchors the entire stage. Bringing set designing into the world of concerts is not new, but I rarely see sets that remind me of actual theater I have seen. It is almost inspiring, showing that there is a path for any theater discipline in other “stages”.
I love Lana Del Ray’s design team. The live feeds look absolutely great, and the led screens upstage are absolutely stunning. I think it's great when arena concert designers overlay the live feed with other pre-made visuals. I think it's a really clever way to mix media and make each performance uniquely embellished for each separate night.. Backdrops aside, the scenic elements of her tour are gorgeous and absolutely fit Lana's aesthetic vision for her upcoming album. I think the house’s structure looks a little bit flat, but the addition of shadows to the windows is a great way to bring more dimension to the structure, as well as movement. I also love how there is a porch swing downstage left. I saw Lana live at lollapalooza in 2023, and noticed she always has a porch swing on stage which is such a cute and dynamic set up for a performance.
I love when people use projections and media walls in ways other than just as a backdrop. the way that their projectors and LED screens interact with each other seems really cool, and means they can incorporate a ton of different effects. The designs themselves are super visually appealing, and though I can't say I'm at all familiar with lana del ray, seem to match the aesthetic and just general vibes of the tour. The way that the visuals interact with the physical set pieces is really cool as well, bringing us from a more realistic version of someone's porch and front yard, to something otherworldly, exciting and intense. I'd be curious to see what this looks like from angles other that straight on though, because with a big stadium tour like that you're going to have people viewing the show from so many diffrent places, and I've often found that if you don't sit in the middle sometimes visuals like this don't line up properly.
This looks fantastic! It’s a shame it's not coming to the United States, at least for now, because it seems to be on such a grand scale. The article specifically mentions holographic projections, and I wonder how accurate that statement is, given that holographics implies a 3D projection. I’ve only seen successful holographics demonstrated once, and that was on what Sony called a ‘spatial display’ that used eye tracking in order to create a successful illusion. Regardless, based on the production photos within the article, Lana Del Rey’s team certainly seems to have done a great job on this production.
5 comments:
This article is really interesting. I have of course heard lots about Lana Del Rey, but have never really listened to her music. I never realized that she had a fan base that would warrant a production of this size. This production looks incredible, and reminds me of Eurovision in some ways! The entire house set on stage, with video walls and projection surfaces surrounding it looks insane! I don't know much about video, but would love to learn more about the media servers that were discussed in the article! I would also like to hear about the load in process, strike, and traveling with this rig, as it looks massive. I am curious if there were any complications with traveling across the UK and Ireland with this amount of gear. I have always been curious about how artists collaborate with the other creatives for their concerts, and it sounds like Lana was pretty heavily involved which I find very cool!
I love when you can so clearly see the influence of live theater on other art forms such as live concerts. The light design and video media design are out of this world, but I also want to touch on the entire house design that they pulled off for this tour. The house set, combined with the lighting of the different shadows moving throughout the floors, is so immersive, especially for a concert. It feels like the audience is transported to a land that is so similar to where we are now, and yet Lana del Ray’s music provides that other-worldly aspect. I also completely agree with Lipson in how he has commented on the impacts of the house on the overall stage. Specifically, the idea that this set anchors the entire stage. Bringing set designing into the world of concerts is not new, but I rarely see sets that remind me of actual theater I have seen. It is almost inspiring, showing that there is a path for any theater discipline in other “stages”.
I love Lana Del Ray’s design team. The live feeds look absolutely great, and the led screens upstage are absolutely stunning. I think it's great when arena concert designers overlay the live feed with other pre-made visuals. I think it's a really clever way to mix media and make each performance uniquely embellished for each separate night.. Backdrops aside, the scenic elements of her tour are gorgeous and absolutely fit Lana's aesthetic vision for her upcoming album. I think the house’s structure looks a little bit flat, but the addition of shadows to the windows is a great way to bring more dimension to the structure, as well as movement. I also love how there is a porch swing downstage left. I saw Lana live at lollapalooza in 2023, and noticed she always has a porch swing on stage which is such a cute and dynamic set up for a performance.
I love when people use projections and media walls in ways other than just as a backdrop. the way that their projectors and LED screens interact with each other seems really cool, and means they can incorporate a ton of different effects. The designs themselves are super visually appealing, and though I can't say I'm at all familiar with lana del ray, seem to match the aesthetic and just general vibes of the tour. The way that the visuals interact with the physical set pieces is really cool as well, bringing us from a more realistic version of someone's porch and front yard, to something otherworldly, exciting and intense. I'd be curious to see what this looks like from angles other that straight on though, because with a big stadium tour like that you're going to have people viewing the show from so many diffrent places, and I've often found that if you don't sit in the middle sometimes visuals like this don't line up properly.
This looks fantastic! It’s a shame it's not coming to the United States, at least for now, because it seems to be on such a grand scale. The article specifically mentions holographic projections, and I wonder how accurate that statement is, given that holographics implies a 3D projection. I’ve only seen successful holographics demonstrated once, and that was on what Sony called a ‘spatial display’ that used eye tracking in order to create a successful illusion. Regardless, based on the production photos within the article, Lana Del Rey’s team certainly seems to have done a great job on this production.
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