sanah Live at PGE Narodowy (Stadium Tour)
Venue & Year: PGE Narodowy, Warsaw, 2025
Production
Lighting Designer: Tomasz Sierotko
INTRODUCTION
Stadium concerts represent the pinnacle of live production, where the ultimate challenge lies not just in the sheer scale, but in the ability to translate the artist’s intimate emotions to a massive audience. For sanah’s stadium tour, the key was creating a visual design that would fully capture the poetic nature of her music while harnessing the immense potential of PGE Narodowy.
The artistic concept and lighting design were helmed by Tomasz Sierotko, one of the country’s most renowned Lighting Designers. His vision aimed to create a cohesive, multi-dimensional space where the lighting builds the atmosphere without overpowering the artist’s delicate presence. As part of this ambitious project, our Brighter X-Beam IP and Brighter X-Strobe IP fixtures were integrated into the rig, becoming vital tools in the hands of the lighting designer.
PROJECT BRIEF
Technical Objective
To provide specialized lighting tools that formed an essential part of the overall visual concept, supporting the audience’s experience from the most intimate moments to the show’s major climaxes, while simultaneously ensuring the necessary coverage and throw required for stadium-scale venues.
THE CHALLENGE
Collaborating on a production as demanding as sanah’s stadium tour presented Brighter technology with the following challenges:
Precision on a Grand Scale: Due to its massive scale and volume, PGE Narodowy demands fixtures with exceptional light output and intensity. The core challenge was to integrate the fixtures in a way that delivered a striking visual experience for the audience without eclipsing or overpowering the artist’s performance.
Atmospheric Flexibility: The unique nature of sanah’s concerts requires the lighting to be highly versatile—shifting seamlessly from delicate, soft accents to sudden transitions into high-energy dynamics. The fixtures had to offer immense flexibility and a diverse palette of built-in effects.
System-Level Reliability: As components of a much larger lighting setup, the fixtures had to demonstrate flawless compatibility and rock-solid operational stability within a complex stadium infrastructure, working in perfect sync with the rest of the rig throughout the entire show.
THE SOLUTION
Tomasz Sierotko’s design leveraged the specific characteristics of Brighter Lighting fixtures to form a vital component of the stadium rig:
Building Space and Motion (Brighter X-Beam IP): 48 X-Beam IP moving heads served as a dynamic source of sharp, tight beams. Placed upstage (behind the stage), this group of X-Beams was put in a somewhat “challenging” technical position, tasked with generating powerful backlighting effects and “punching through” from behind the main set structure. Thanks to their ultra-narrow optics and high intensity, the fixtures were able to create distinct, monumental light structures from behind the artist without losing beam definition.
Accents and Dynamics (Brighter X-Strobe IP): 24 X-Strobe IP units were integrated into the system to heighten the show’s dramatic impact. Their role focused on building tension through rapid, precise bursts of light that perfectly complemented key musical cues.
Visual Cohesion: Thanks to their high-quality components, the Brighter fixtures blended seamlessly into the aesthetic of Tomasz Sierotko’s design. They offered exceptional color and technical stability, allowing for absolute control over the concert’s visual narrative on such a demanding scale.
CONCLUSIONS
Brightness and Optical Quality as Key Factors: This production confirmed that the X-Beam IP series excels even in challenging rigging positions and tight mounting configurations. The fixtures’ ability to project a highly intense, focused beam from behind scenic elements grants Lighting Designers greater creative freedom when designing spatial layouts.
Seamless Adaptability & Integration: Deploying Brighter fixtures within such a massive setup demonstrated our solutions’ flawless capability to integrate into a larger, mixed-brand lighting ecosystem comprised of fixtures from various manufacturers.
