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FÁTIMA — Ópera-Rock

A sensitive subject, a contemporary format, audiences very different from one another

Poster for FÁTIMA — Rock Opera

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Context

In Portugal, Fátima is at once religious, cultural and touristic territory. Any communication on the subject is read by several audiences at the same time.

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Challenge

The central challenge was to build desire without causing rupture: to interest those seeking spectacle, respect those seeking meaning, and not alienate those with a personal relationship to the subject.

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Strategy

The strategy defined tone first and media second. The rock-opera format was communicated as a deliberate artistic choice and a mark of contemporaneity, not as provocation.

Messages were staged: first the existence of the project, then its formal ambition, then the experience.

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Campaign ecosystem

Visual identity, music-led content, video, campaigns segmented by proximity and affinity, press relations and articulation with organised audiences and tourism.

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Audiovisual piece from the FÁTIMA — Ópera-Rock campaign at Teatro Politeama: the scale, tone and imagery of the show condensed into a format built to hold attention on screen.

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Audiences and channels

Musical theatre audiences, audiences connected to the subject, regional audiences, organised groups and visitors.

Channels: Meta, Google, email, press and institutional partnerships.

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Reading the results

Reading the results privileged qualitative signals alongside performance: how the project was talked about, which doubts emerged and which arguments turned interest into attendance.

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What this project demonstrates

That subjects with symbolic weight require a strategy of tone before a strategy of media.

A cultural campaign does not begin when the poster is published. It begins when we decide why someone should want to be there.