Hase was Lighting Designer at Giessen State Theater (Stadttheater Giessen)

Hase was Lighting Designer for open-air ballet called The Shadow of Gobustan in front of Gobustan Mountains in Azerbaijan

Hase mentions that stage lights range from 750-5000W

Hase pioneered programmable moving lights in opera

Each light uses a 20A circuit (household breaker boxes use 15-20A)

History & literature degrees; Masters in Aesthetics (from the Institute of Theater & Design in Cologne, Germany)

King Louis

Tosca

La Boheme

A Doll’s House at the Abbey Theater in Dublin

A gobo is a dark plate or screen used to shield a lens from light.

Bonn, Germany

Fulbright Grant

Die Meistersinger

Cologne State Theater

Opera Cologne

Meredith Monk

World Premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass Erfort, Germany

Tony Award-winning Company at Playhouse in the Park in Cincinnati

Frida

Triumphant march in Aida

The Demon (opera) in Barcelona

1,200 lighting units for Cincinnati Opera’s 2018 season, avg. 800-900 lights/season

Giessen State Theater

Single-source lighting

Lighting cues

Moving lights

Wash lights

CAD = Computer-aided design/drafting software

LED = light-emitting diode

Tungsten lights

HID (high-intensity discharge) lamps are used in moving lights

Aronoff Center for the Arts

The Magic Flute

Hase wants to work on The Rake’s Progress and Wozzeck again, as well as The Flying Dutchman

La Boheme at San Francisco Opera

Ice (opera based on the Lundberg novel)

Cincinnati Opera Brat Fry: invented by Hase; Miesfeld’s brats flown in from Sheboygan, Wisconsin for staff, cast, and crew

Gary Kidney (technical director)

In the Garden of the Beast

Sherlock

The Bridge

NextFlight app

Arnold’s Bar (Cincinnati)

Frank Rich

Hase mentioned Gilbert Hemsley and Hans Tolstead as two of his mentors