Mediterranean Games

Pescara, (IT) 2019
2019
Completed
Concerts

Mediterranean Games: a spectacular water ceremony centered around Abruzzo's traditional cultures and iconography

30,000 spectators, 1,300 volunteer performers and 23 nations celebrated the opening of the Mediterranean Games in Pescara.

To show has begun with a powerful sense of humanity demonstrated by all the participants with a tribute dedicated to the victims of the Aquila earthquake. The traditional culture of Abruzzo, the Italian region hosting the games was the main aspirational theme of the ceremony.

For the first time in the history of Mediterranean Games the “water ceremony” took place during the Opening, becoming a leitmotiv of this sport event and being reproduced in the next ceremonies.

Giant illuminated figure on a frame above performers waving blue fabric in the stadium – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event design
Sculpted tree of tangled figures with branches of white lights, lit blue at night – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event designNight view of the stadium with fireworks fountains above a blue-lit field and the audience – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event design
Performers in yellow costumes with tall flexible yellow rods dancing on the grass – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event designHundreds of performers in flowing blue and white costumes covering the stadium field – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event design
Tall statue-like figure in a scaffold of ladders and nets with sail-like fabric wings, lit blue – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event designAcrobats in white posing below a glowing lantern crowned with branches of white lights – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event design
Giant illuminated figure on a frame above performers waving blue fabric in the stadium – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event designUpward view of the giant figure inside its net and ladder structure, flanked by blue-lit fabric sails – Pescara 2009 Mediterranean Games Opening Ceremony, Italy, 2019 – event design