Our first pre-match stadium spectacle
The Department were set the challenge of creating and managing the pre-match show for this Opening Ceremony. The result was a combination of stunts, dance routines, and celebrity appearances with film elements to celebrate this enormous club match, while involving 800 moving parts, including umbrella props that revealed club emblems.
At a glance
90k stadium audience
160 million global TV audience
864 choreographed elements
288 dancers