Big Art Festival Singapore 2026Il Divo at the Capitol Theatre. Six weeks, one build day, one invoice.
Local production partner and licence holder for Il Divo's black-tie gala in a 1930 heritage theatre. An arena rider fulfilled in a dinner room, every licence in our name, one build day on Grand Prix Saturday, one invoice in one currency.
- guests at round tables
- 340
- from rider to show
- 6 wks
- build day · load-in 02:00, doors 20:00
- 1
- rider lines · 58 sourced outside the house
- 74
- screen cues
- 41
- licences and certifications in our name
- 8
// 01 / THE BRIEF
A heritage theatre, an arena rider, Grand Prix Saturday.
Big Art Festival's first Singapore edition. The organiser brought the format, the headliner, the partners and the guest list. We made it legal, made it work in a 1930 theatre with no build day, and carried every local contract so the organiser paid one counterparty in one currency.
- 01 The room
A theatre as a dinner room
340 guests at round tables on the stalls floor, four courses around a live programme, a house rig designed for seated shows.
- 02 The rider
A rider written for arenas
74 lines. The venue had 16 of them. The rest — a second console, twelve wedges, six channels of Sennheiser 6000, the artist's own FOH system on a carnet — came from outside.
- 03 The date
Grand Prix Saturday
The busiest night of the Singapore calendar. Suppliers, riggers and wireless spectrum all spoken for.
// 02 / LICENSING
Eight approvals. One name on all of them.
Every licence sat with our Singapore entity. The organiser signed nothing with a Singapore agency, before the show or after it.
LICENCE HOLDER
What we held
- IMDA Arts Entertainment Licence
- Police Public Entertainment Licence, for the after-party
- SCDF fire-safety compliance: haze, CO₂ confetti, no pyrotechnics
- COMPASS music licence, interim fee and Programme Return
- LEW certificates on both 32A boards
- PE endorsement for the hoist and the aerial point, IRATA rigger on site
- Insurance, public liability and personal accident
- IRAS withholding for non-resident performers paid locally
How the stack works: Event licences in Singapore — the checklist.
- approvals and certifications
- 8
- LEW-certified 32A boards
- 2
- pyrotechnics in a heritage building
- 0
- licence holder
- 1
// 03 / TECHNICAL PRODUCTION
An arena rider in a 1930 room.
SOUND
The artist's FOH on a carnet. The house PA in the room.
The Waves LV1 system arrived on carnet and went into the venue’s d&b XSL. Monitors ran on the house DiGiCo SD9 through an isolated split. We hired and briefed the FOH engineer: the artist tours without one.
- wedges, plus side-fills and front-fills
- 8
- Sennheiser 6000
- 6 ch
- PSM1000 in-ears
- 6 ch
- RF tech on the F1-weekend spectrum
- 1
LIGHTING
House rig. Scene-by-scene brief.
32 house fixtures on grandMA2, two followspots on Clear-Com, two hazers, a mirror ball for the after-party. The brief came out of the show director’s walk-through: room black whenever the stage is live, colour drift through dinner, white only for the jewellery défilé.
- house fixtures
- 32
- followspots
- 2
- of spend — the house rig did the work
- 9%
VIDEO & LED
41 cues against the host's script.
A Resolume cue sheet built on the script: partner loop before doors, live Apple TV input for the giveaway, a media server added in show week, two screens for the host. Only two clips carried audio.
- screen cues
- 41
- clips with audio
- 2
- host screens
- 2
RIGGING, BACKLINE, STAGING
One point, load-tested before dawn.
Chain hoist and hardware for the aerial act, rigged and load-tested between 02:00 and 05:00 under PE endorsement, the IRATA rigger as the rescue plan during the act. Two DJ set-ups, a digital grand, autocue, 100 m of fibre to FOH.
- rig and load-test window
- 02–05
- DJ set-ups, foyer and hall
- 2
- fibre to FOH
- 100 m
// 04 / THE NIGHT
What 340 guests saw.
-
Finale -
Anya Bijelic -
Katty Leen · after-party -
Chopard défilé -
Défilé, part two -
Aerial act -
Chopard -
Laura Geraldine -
Il Divo -
Il Divo
// 05 / SHOW DAY
One production day, by the clock.
No build day. Our producer on site from load-in to load-out; the show director called it on Clear-Com.
- 02:00 Load-in Rigging and load test to 05:00.
- 06:00 Lighting House rig programmed to the brief.
- 09:30 Sound Carnet system in, split to the house SD9.
- 14:00 Stage ready Headliner soundcheck to 16:00.
- 16:30 Défilé rehearsal With the DJ.
- 17:30 Confetti & hazer Alarm isolated, effects checked.
- 18:30 Cue walk-through 41 cues, scenes, blackouts.
- 20:00 Doors Show to 01:00.
- 03:00 Strike Load-out complete.
// 06 / SUPPLIERS AND BILLING
Seven lines of spend. One statement.
Tendered across two production houses, an insurance broker and an independent FOH engineer. Billed to the organiser in EUR at one ECB rate, with every supplier invoice reconciled in an annex.
- 01 Quotes
Seven revisions, approved line by line
The artist's technical director kept adding to the rider. Each addition went into one SGD/EUR workbook for the organiser to sign off.
- 02 Terms
Supplier terms bridged
Deposits and prepayments carried by us against the client's own payment schedule.
- 03 Partner billing
Chopard billed separately
The défilé lighting went on its own invoice to Chopard Asia and stayed out of the organiser's statement.
// 07 / TIMELINE
Six weeks, in order.
- T−6 Rider in Venue gap analysis, first quotes, IMDA application.
- T−5 Site visit With the organiser's technical director.
- T−4 Rider additions Quote revisions. PE and LEW scoped.
- T−3 Suppliers awarded Deposits. Sound and lighting briefs. COMPASS.
- T−2 Content in Script, screens, set lists. Insurance bound.
- T−1 Quotes signed Show-week additions. IRATA rigger found.
- Show 02:00 → 03:00
- T+1 Reconciliation One statement, one annex.
- T+2w COMPASS Programme Return.
- T+2m IRAS Withholding filed.
// 08 / WHAT WE LEARNT
Five things we took to the next edition.
- 01
The date decides the sales.
Grand Prix Saturday competes with the best free night of the year. Next time: Art Week in January or FinTech Festival week in November, on a Thursday.
- 02
Sign the rider before the first quote.
Seven revisions and a quarter more spend. A change mechanism for the artist's additions belongs in the contract.
- 03
Ask the venue about IRATA at the site visit.
We found out at 15:45 the day before a 02:00 load-in.
- 04
Count receiver channels, not microphones.
Ten transmitters on six channels looks like a complete quote. It is not.
- 05
Build the structure before the content arrives.
Video, soundtrack and screen content all landed in show week. The cue sheet and the lighting scenes were ready, so they slotted in.
// 09 / SERVICES USED
What we do for a show like this.
- PRODUCTION Technical production Rider against venue inventory, supplier tendering, briefs, show-day operations.
- LEGAL Licensing, as licence holder IMDA, Police, SCDF, COMPASS in our name. Certifications and insurance carried.
- FINANCE One counterparty, one currency A Singapore entity for every local contract. One rate, one statement.
- SPONSORSHIP Partner billing Partner activations invoiced separately, onboarding handled with the brand.
- TICKETING Table sales A table quota sold through our network, digital-currency checkout on toniq.events.
- KNOWLEDGE Event licences in Singapore The checklist for concerts and galas.
// 10 / NEXT
Same client, next city.
BIG ART FESTIVAL HONG KONG
Bryan Adams · Four Seasons Grand Ballroom · 24 March 2027.
Client: Berin Iglesias Art · Headliner: Il Divo · Laura Geraldine, Anya Bijelic, DJ Katty Leen, host Pietro Polidori · Partners: Chopard, Tatler Asia, DENZA, Royal Caviar Club, The Capitol Kempinski Hotel Singapore · Photography: Big Art Festival.