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Stage designers must create an immersive and engaging environment that lasts only hours or days but is remembered for a lifetime. Whether it´s Jay-Z at Carnegie Hall, Radiohead on a world tour, Celine Dion in Las Vegas, Nelson Mandela´s 90th birthday, a dramatic production of Hairspray,´ or the launch of McLaren´s latest Formula One race car, every situation demands memorable staging that works in perfect harmony with the central event. Here individual examples of remarkable stage design are chronicled, while wider questions of why stage design matters are also raised.´

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