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Report from Markus Klatt @ www.Feuerwerk.net

LORENZO LA ROSA: Authentic Italian rhythm

Today La Rosa from Sicily gave their performance at Punta del Miracle and where as effected by massive smoke formation as the two companies before.

The Italians showed what they are known and loved for: a rhythmic and loud display from the beginning to the very end where especially the sequences with big calibre cylindrical shells before the finale produced an authentic Italian steam engine. And they had a lot of original Italian made effects to offer. Starting from simple star bouquets with small salutes, to the beautiful farfalle with all the silver whirls, to lots of stutata shells which burst without effect but then suddenly fill the sky with dozends of spiders, peonies or very loud truenos. The most special effects where produced by “bomba de tiro”, big multibreak shells with 8, 10 or even more bursts of polyps or coloured stars, ended with a big star bouquet and an heavy final salute. This type of shells is especially made for very important events like competitions only.

Additional to the Italian material LA ROSA used Chinese effects like falling leaves, peonies and chrysanthemum shells, popping flowers and crossettes which always were shot in waves and were often supported by salutes. As aquatic shells there are two sequences made by silver or golden swimming fountains to mention. The biggest shells used in the display were four round shells with a calibre of 400mm which produced huge star bursts in the sky.

The finale was a steadily increasing crescendo by countless salutes which followed a pattern of rhythmically fired really loud salutes. Although this display, which was controlled by the two firing systems FireOne and Firemaster, used less material and maybe had less ideas then the two shows before, LA ROSA was the third company which fully proved the high standard of this years fireworks display competition in Tarragona. If only the weather could be improved…


Markus Klatt