The Land of Legends resort is a joint venture between Rixos Hotels and world-renowned creative specialist, Dragone and houses a theme park, a water park, a hotel, a shopping avenue and a selection of eateries. The resident Dragone show is a moving performance not contained within a theatrical space but takes place across the entire property, beginning with a boat parade, also stopping at tableaux along the way, concluding with a grand finale at the gate.
Sound designer Corrado Campanelli was presented a lot of challenges during the design process as there were a lot of areas to cover and a lot of time constraints in order to be fully operational for opening day. Great quality and a flexible system was what he required.
A combination of Python-KP102 loudspeakers and Thunder-KMT12 subwoofers were employed in the mile-and-a-half-long canal area used for the parade of boats each shaped like musical instruments with onboard audio: two Pythons and a Thunder to reproduce the instruments’ sounds.
Zoning and routing is managed by a QSC Q-SYS 500i DSP, systems kept in sync via wireless timecode and transport is via a fibre optic network, with each speaker controllable individually via K-Dante. 118 Python-KP102 beam speakers and 63 Thunder-KMT18 subwoofers were also installed on the buildings lining the canal.
For the dolphin show in the resort, 16 Mugello-KH2 line arrays, six Mugello-KS5 subwoofers and 10 Dragon-KX12 line arrays were put in place and for the boxes that are not self-powered, a Kommander-KA84 takes care of the amplification.