Formentor Sunset ClassicsClassical music festival

Every year the Formentor, a Royal Hideaway Hotel, part of the Barceló Group, organises the Formentor Sunset Classics Festival in the bay of Formentor, at the northern tip of Mallorca. The classical music concerts begin at sunset, in a pine wood beside the sea, and the festival has become an established date on the classical music calendar.

We built the orchestra’s stage under a truss structure, closed at the sides with transparent panels. Above it we hung an LED screen that showed the soloists and the musicians up close. The audience sat in rows of chairs on artificial grass, with high tables spread across the lawn.

By day the set-up sat among the pine trunks. As night fell we lit the trees in blue and purple and left a warm light on the orchestra. Sound was mixed from a digital desk placed among the audience, and the video signal was controlled from a separate position.