Stage lighting is the art of lighting and lighting the stage for the characters and scenery, also known as stage lighting. Its role is to follow the performance requirements, according to the overall concept of stage art, using the technical equipment and means of stage lighting to match the actors to create a visual image on the stage.

Stage lighting is an important part of the performance space composition. It is a lighting design that comprehensively visualizes the characters and specific scenes according to the development of the plot, and aims to reproduce the artistic intentions to the audience in a visual way. creation. Lighting design should consider the characters and plots comprehensively and systematically, highlighting the visual focus, and using light to express the storyline and character feelings.

Stage lighting

Early dramas have had an open-air or semi-open-air performance history, all using daylight as a light source. However, as the venue moved into the room or at night, stage lighting began to appear.

Early performance

In the 16th century Europe, if it was performed outdoors at night, a bonfire was made from a resin-impregnated rope as a light source.

Early stage lighting

When the Dresden Theatre performed the opera "Yeo" in 1755, 8,000 candles were lit on the stage.

Early stage lighting

Since the 18th century, it has become customary to extinguish the auditorium lights and only the stage lighting during the performance.

Stage lighting

At the beginning of the 20th century, after the advent of the tungsten light bulb, the spotlight was provided with a concentrated spotlight, which did not represent the stage space and created a stage atmosphere to provide favorable conditions.

Tungsten bulb

In the 1950s, studio lighting gradually developed on the basis of stage and movie lights.

Modern stage lighting

In the 1960s, scientists and technicians developed LED light-emitting diodes using the principle of semiconductor PN junction light. The LED used at that time was made of GaASP, and its luminescent color was red. After nearly 30 years of development, LEDs that are very familiar to everyone have been able to emit red, orange, yellow, green, blue and other colors. However, the white LEDs required for lighting were only developed after 2000. In recent years, many stage lamps have used LED lights, and LED stage lamps have gradually become one of the important lamps for stage lighting.