Il Divo

In 2024 the Starlite Occident Madrid auditorium was fitted with the HOLOPLOT audio system, an immersive sound configuration that lets the whole audience, wherever they sit, hear with the same quality and at the same volume. It is a format suited to voices like Il Divo’s, with a large-scale stage and an experience the organisers described as feeling closer than ever to the artists. Around the concert, the edition offered the festival’s own restaurants (Tanabata, Nikkei cuisine; Raffaella, an Italian trattoria; Ánima, Mexican), a Food Hall with stalls and food trucks, Christmas shopping and a gourmet proposal in the box area from 7 pm.

Il Divo’s show was one of the concerts of the second edition of Starlite Occident Madrid, alongside Alejandro Fernández, Vanesa Martín, Niña Pastori, Grupo Frontera, Black Eyed Peas, Camilo, Mau y Ricky, Clean Bandit, Isabel Pantoja, Taburete and Estopa, plus DJ Nano’s after parties on Fridays December 20 and 27 and the festival’s first New Year’s Eve in Madrid, with Hombres G and Juan Magán. Three days after their performance, group member Urs Buhler was in the audience for the Black Eyed Peas concert on Wednesday, December 18. According to the organisers, the festival’s return to Madrid in 2024 created more than 1,000 jobs.