The show is sacred
The curtain goes up on time, every time. Schedules, surprises and moods are arranged around that fact — never the other way round.
Lux Oasis Entertainment — Stage Operations
The show runs because someone runs it.
Twenty-plus years in live entertainment: stage operations, load-ins and rigging calls, crews built and led, venues opened from scratch.
Damiano Pesciaioli — Stage Operations Manager at Dubai Opera and part of the venue’s pre-opening team.
The run sheet
Six cues. One person calling them.
Every engagement runs like a show: numbered, rehearsed, called on time. These are the six things I’m hired to run — scroll the sheet and watch the cues go, or open any cue.
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The core discipline. Running the stage: show operations, department coordination, and safe, precise execution — night after night.
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Technical load-ins run properly: rigging, staging systems, schedules and crews — with the trucking sequence and the venue’s real constraints planned in from the start.
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Planning and overseeing rigging calls and staging builds with certified teams. Coordination and management — the right people, properly briefed, on the right call.
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Recruiting, structuring, scheduling and leading stage and technical crews — including local crew integration for touring productions.
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Taking a new venue from construction handover to first performance: systems commissioning support, SOPs, crew hiring and training, show-readiness. I’ve done it — as part of the Dubai Opera pre-opening team.
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End-to-end production coordination for events and shows: suppliers, technical departments, schedules, budgets, delivery.
Numbers that matter
Only the ones that are true.
20+
Years in the live entertainment industry
Dubai Opera
Stage Operations Manager — and part of the pre-opening team that opened the venue from scratch
Stage · Crew · Venue
The core disciplines: stage operations, crew leadership, venue openings
What I’ve run
From construction handover to opening night.
Two decades and more across live entertainment — theatres, arenas, touring productions, and one landmark opening.
I was part of the Dubai Opera pre-opening team: I opened the venue from scratch, from construction handover to first performance. Today I am Stage Operations Manager there, responsible for the stage night after night.
The job has been the same in every house. Build the crew. Plan the call. Protect the show. Load-ins that land on schedule, rigging calls that run to standard, a running order that holds under pressure. That is what I bring to yours.
Dubai Opera is named here as the principal’s professional role. Lux Oasis Entertainment is an independent consultancy and is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by Dubai Opera.
How I work
Three rules. No exceptions.
Safety is the first cue
Rigging, crews and calls run to standard, not to luck. A safe stage is the only stage worth running.
Calm is a skill
Pressure is the job. The crew takes its temperature from the person calling the show — so the person calling it stays level.
Who I work with
If it goes live in front of an audience, it’s my kind of work.
Venues
Opening a new house or upgrading an existing one — and needing the stage side taken to show-ready.
Producers
Bringing shows to the Gulf and needing someone on the ground who runs stages for a living.
Event agencies
Delivering live productions and needing senior show operations in the room, not on a slide.
Touring productions
Needing local stage and crew leadership: local crews integrated, venue constraints handled, the show delivered as designed.
Contact
Tell me about your show.
A date, a venue, a production in whatever state it’s in. Message me and we’ll talk through what it needs.
Base Dubai Available across the GCC and internationally