Matteo Cammisa is a luxury magician and mentalist based in Budapest, performing at corporate events, galas, weddings and private celebrations across the city and Hungary. A member of The Magic Circle and FISM, he works in English, Hungarian and Italian. Bookings from €2,500.
Budapest hosts two kinds of event at once. There are the evenings the city throws for itself, and there are the evenings the world brings here: incentive trips, European conferences, brand launches and destination weddings, chosen because the Danube frontage photographs like Vienna and costs like Central Europe. The second kind almost always has a mixed guest list, and a mixed guest list is where most entertainment quietly fails.
Magic does not depend on a shared language. Mentalism does — which is why it matters that Matteo performs in English, Hungarian and Italian rather than in one of them. A room of German engineers, Hungarian hosts and Italian clients gets the same evening, not a translated version of it.
He works the rooms this city is booked for: the palace interiors along Andrássy út, the Danube-facing salons, the rooftop bars above Erzsébetváros, the ruin-bar venues that corporate clients rediscover every year. Close-up magic suits all of them for the same practical reason — it needs no stage, no sound and no lighting change, so a listed ceiling is never a problem.
Matteo has performed at W Budapest across several engagements, including two Halloween celebrations, and at the Four Seasons Hotel Budapest, Matild Palace, the Budapest Marriott and the 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
The same show that plays Miami, Dubai and the Côte d'Azur — performed here, in this city, for the evenings this city hosts.
Three working languages — English, Hungarian and Italian — which is the difference between entertainment that includes your foreign guests and entertainment they watch other people enjoy.
Nothing required from the venue: no stage, no microphone, no soundcheck, no load-in. Budapest's best rooms are historic, and historic rooms have rules.
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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Yes — in English, Hungarian and Italian. For events in Budapest that is usually the deciding detail, because the guest list is rarely all Hungarian. Close-up magic reads in any language; mentalism does not, and that is the part most visiting clients are actually booking.
Yes, and it is the natural fit. Matteo has performed at W Budapest, the Four Seasons Hotel Budapest, Matild Palace, the Budapest Marriott and St. Andrea Wine & Sky Bar. Close-up magic needs no stage, no amplification and no lighting change, so the restrictions that come with a listed building never apply.
The same way it works for a local booking. Send the date, the venue if you have chosen one, and roughly how many guests — you will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours, in English.
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.
Prefer to message directly? WhatsApp · management@matteocammisa.com
