Matteo Cammisa performs close-up magic at Budapest receptions, dinners and private parties — guest to guest, at arm's length, with no stage, microphone or soundcheck. Bookings from €2,500.
Close-up magic happens in the guests' own hands: a card signed and found, a borrowed ring, an object that ends up somewhere it cannot be. There is no stage and no announcement — Matteo simply arrives at a group of four or five, and two minutes later they are calling other people over.
It is the format Budapest venues can always say yes to. The rooms this city is booked for are historic — palace salons on Andrássy út, Castle District courtyards, Danube-facing dining rooms — and historic rooms come with restrictions on staging, rigging and amplification. Close-up uses none of them, and there is nothing to load in.
The natural window is the reception: the hour while guests arrive, drink and wait, when the room is at its most awkward and least programmed. It also works table to table between courses, without interrupting service.
Matteo has performed close-up magic at W Budapest, the Four Seasons Hotel Budapest, Matild Palace, the Budapest Marriott and St. Andrea Wine & Sky Bar.
Matteo moves through the room during drinks or dinner and performs for small groups at a time. No stage, no microphone, no soundcheck — the whole show happens at arm's length. Typically booked from 30 minutes to two hours, sized to the cocktail hour or the dinner it covers.
From €2,500
A seated, focused piece for the full room, built around thought, choice and influence rather than props. Runs 20 to 30 minutes and works as the pivot between dinner and the rest of the evening.
From €3,000
A full theatrical set for a seated audience, with close-up work projected live to screen where the room is large enough to need it.
On request
Nothing is required from the venue and nothing is interrupted — no stage, no sound, no lighting change, no runtime taken out of the programme.
It is photographed well: reactions at arm's length, in good light, with the guests' faces in frame.
It reads in any language, which in Budapest is usually the point — and where words are needed, Matteo performs in English, Hungarian and Italian.
Matteo Cammisa is a member of The Magic Circle in London, of FISM — the international federation of magic societies — and of the Society of American Magicians. Twenty years of performing, more than 500 events, over 30 countries.
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No. That is the whole point of the format: no stage, no microphone, no soundcheck, no lighting change and nothing to load in. It is the reason it is the format of choice in Budapest's historic and listed venues.
Typically from thirty minutes to two hours, sized to the reception or the dinner it covers. Matteo works in passes through the room rather than in one continuous block, so the room stays fresh.
It works group by group, so the number is really a question of time. A ninety-minute pass comfortably covers a reception of a hundred guests; larger rooms are usually paired with a mentalism piece after dinner so everyone shares one moment.
Bookings start from €2,500. The figure moves with the format, the length of the evening, the number of guests and where in the world the event is. Fees are quoted per event rather than per hour, because what you are booking is presence across a window of the evening, not a block of stage time. Tell Matteo the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have a firm figure within 24 hours.
For a specific date in high season, three to six months is comfortable. Shorter notice is often possible and worth asking about: dates open up, and Matteo holds a small amount of the calendar for late corporate bookings. The honest answer is that the date either exists or it does not, and one message settles it.
Almost everything except the word. A party magician performs a set: the same routine, in the same order, whoever is in the room. What Matteo does is closer to hosting — the material is chosen live for the people in front of him, it is built to be photographed, and it is timed around your evening rather than interrupting it. The practical difference shows up in the details: how he dresses, how he works with your planner, whether he needs anything from the venue, and what the room sounds like ten minutes after he leaves.
Send the date, the city and roughly how many guests. You will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours.
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