Presupuesto: The bulk of the costs come from: - Venue rental - Staging and lighting - Artists professional fees (including costumes) - Catering
Programa: We suggest the following program flow: - Cocktail in 18th century setting - Dinner with live orchestra music - Between courses, you can arrange to have a short performance or different acts of the opera - Dessert and coffee accompanied by the opera performance - Souvenirs and gifts for the event - End of evening or followed by dancing if it is a fiesta
Actividades: Venue Even if you cannot hire a real opera house (quite exclusive...), look for venues with a grand historical setting or simply a grand ballroom - with chandeliers, decorated in gold, complemented with splashes of red velvet, china and silverware for table setting, glitters of gold... Decoration Apart from the ambience from the venue, there are details that you can add to elaborate on this theme. Set up a majestic stage (including a stage backdrop) and work with your AV company to give the stage a commanding presence with light effects. Get ideas of a stage design and setting the ambience from pictures of different opera houses. Of course, you can integrate your company logo and name of the event on the stage backdrop. After all, it is your event! Lighting plays an important role in creating the ambience -play with different colours, intensity of the lights during the entire event to create the sensation of being in an opera. Maximise your theme: - In all your communications - why not design your invitation like an entrance ticket to an opera? Offer an opera CD as a door gift? If you have a big group, why not include a binocular as part of the door gift to add to the going-to-the-opera atmosphere? - Integrate your table setting into the theme - white / gold table linens, white floral centrepieces with gold glitters on the table-top, dine with china and silverware, printed program leaflet of the opera. - Work with your caterer - create the cuisine to the theme by naming the dishes with different operas or elements of opera. - Dress up your ushers / service staff with costumes of the 18th century to create the era of the first operas, including the artists. - Getting your guests to dress up with costume of the era... Now that's 100% participation and integration. - Of course with this theme, an opera performance is inevitable! You can either do a showcase of songs from a selection of operas or selection of songs of a specific opera.
Consejos: - If your budget allows, hire an orchestra to play the opera. They can also provide ambience music while the group is dining. - In your invitation, you can also include some general information about opera, or about the opera of that night. - Make sure you allow time for the artists to do their rehearsal before the event. Also, if you can, go see them perform or get a video tape of their performance before confirming the engagement.