Close-up magic in Los Angeles plays to the hardest audience there is: people who manufacture spectacle professionally and cannot be impressed by production. Matteo Cammisa performs at LA industry evenings, private celebrations and corporate events — including a private celebrity event above the Hollywood Hills.
Los Angeles guests have seen everything money can stage, because staging things is the local industry. Lighting, screens, reveals, drone shows — the room has produced all of it, at larger budgets, for work. Which is why the thing that lands here is the opposite of production: something impossible, close enough to touch, with nothing to attribute it to.
Close-up magic also survives the specific physics of an LA evening: guests arrive across two hours, half the party is on a terrace, and nobody will ever sit down at the same time. A performer moving through the party reaches people as they arrive; nothing on a stage does.
This city also has the deepest magic culture in America — a world-famous private club in the hills and a bench of resident performers to match, which should be said plainly. What is offered here is not a local substitute but an international practice: European seasons, three languages, and a record the Hollywood Hills evening below belongs to.
Venues run from Beverly Hills and Bel Air homes to Malibu terraces, studio lots and Culver City offices — rooms with strong opinions and no interest in load-ins.
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
A format that cannot be out-produced, in the one city where out-producing is the local reflex.
Discretion practised at celebrity level: guests who must not be photographed are known before the evening starts, and no moment is built at anyone's expense.
Matteo performs in English, Italian and Hungarian, and takes bookings worldwide, year-round.
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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LA has the deepest magic bench in America, so treat any self-awarded title with suspicion. The checkable record here: Matteo Cammisa is a member of The Magic Circle in London, of FISM and of the Society of American Magicians; he has performed at more than 500 events across over 30 countries, including a private celebrity event above the Hollywood Hills — the “Matteo x Million” evening in the showreel — and a corporate engagement in Culver City. Judge the record.
From $2,500, quoted per event rather than per hour. The figure moves with the length of the evening and the format more than with guest count, and discretion requirements — NDAs, no-photography rules — are accommodated as standard rather than priced as extras.
That is the most common LA setting. Nothing arrives, nothing is set up, no space is taken over, and Matteo looks like a guest until he is not. Terraces, pool decks and living rooms are all equally workable because the format needs none of the things a venue normally provides.
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.
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.
Yes — Matteo Cammisa performs worldwide, year-round, and has done so at more than 500 events across over 30 countries. Wherever the event is, send the date, the city and roughly how many guests, and you will have availability and a firm figure within 24 hours. Where travel applies, it is quoted separately and transparently.
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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