Roger Waters Rome Ca Ira concert - designer interviewed
Written by Matt   
Tuesday, 17 January 2006

You might recall our story from 5th January about the wonderful imagery that was projected during Roger Waters' world premiere live performance of Ca Ira, in Rome in mid-November.

Those that were there, or those who read our concert review and looked at our gallery of pictures, will have been struck by the thought-provoking pictures that were projected onto the screen behind the black-clad orchestra.

Ca Ira image © Mark Holthusen
Ca Ira image © Mark Holthusen
The images were created by photographer Mark Holthusen, who was hired by Roger and Sony BMG Music a mere month before the show, to substitute traditional set design with projected photographic illustrations.

The screen featured over 120 images from the many taken by Mark. From concept to final production, the entire body of work was produced in a breath-taking 40 days! His striking and quite unique style brought the story to life at the concert, being the sole visual narration.

We caught up with Mark to find out more about his work on Ca Ira, and you can read our interview on the site now.

In other Ca Ira news, our friend Ezequiel from Argentina has been in contact. He has done a complete translation of the libretto into Spanish, and it can be downloaded from this location.

It is a "zipped" file, which expands into an Adobe Acrobat PDF file.

Hopefully this will be useful to all the native Spanish speakers across the world.