Sponsorship

Advertising creates brand awareness, but sponsorship creates brand experience! 

Why Sponsor the Arts?

Sponsorship is about engaging with your customers in a space they feel passionately about. It is a sensitive business more so now than ever, as we become cynical in response to having their personal space infringed upon by intrusive ads and logos. Being sensitive to the integrity of arts forms is what we are all about and as a sponsor this sensitivity and integrityrubs off on your brand giving it authenticity and winning you loyalty. Sponsoring the Arts ensures your brand is fully integrated with the experience and our patrons see you as the force which made that moment of magic happen. Why watch from the side-lines when you can take centre-stage?  

  1. Enhance your corporate reputation in the community
  2.  Inject authenticity to your brand
  3. Engage with your customers on a personal level
  4. Bring creative thought into your business
  5. Develop your cause-related marketing strategy

 Achieve all this with a well picked arts sponsorship and a clever activation strategy. 

Why Sponsor Cork Opera House?

Cork Opera House has been part of the fabric of cultural life in Cork city for over 150 years. By positioning your brand name with a well established brand deeply rooted in the hearts ofCork people, you will not only assume a strong community image and prestige but you will benefit from hospitality, advertising, PR and promotional opportunities surrounding the sponsorship. 

We have an extensive track-record of delivering a healthy return of investment on sponsorships and we have worked with some of the biggest brands in the world. Please get in touch to find out more about which opportunities are currently available.  

Sponsor a Seat 

Be part of the show

You are invited to take a seat in our new auditorium as a Seat Sponsor. 

Cork Opera House received funding from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism and Cork City Council to carry out long-overdue refurbishments of its 1000 seater auditorium, re-opened on 10th June 2009 by President Mary McAleese. Some seats in our auditorium had been therelese since the new Opera House was built in 1965!

The Sponsor a Seat campaign aims to raise money to bridge the shortfall in public funding and gives the people of Cork an opportunity to get involved and be acknowledged as a supporter for all our patrons to see.

Sponsor a Box 

Get the best seats in the house and call them your own!

Cork Opera House’s four private corporate boxes (Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, and Bizet), offer sponsors an excellent opportunity for you to entertain your clients and colleagues, and indeed friends and family for that exclusive night out. A sponsorship package can be tailored to meet the needs of your entertaining or marketing objectives and may include:

8 box tickets for the opening night of ALL shows for 1 year 

VIP Service including champagne on ice and bar service. Canapé/buffet menus and bar tab facilities are available on request. 

Complimentary tickets for the Annual Pantomime

Complimentary tickets for selected shows at the Half Moon Theatre, our intimate, rear of house theatre

Complimentary hire of the Blue Angel Lounge, our top-floor front of house bar with spectacular views over the river

Discounts on exclusive use of the Blue Angel Lounge

Sponsor a Show 

The Cork Opera House brand offers a highly effective and affordable investment opportunity for corporate sponsors. Opportunities include full title sponsorship of a show, a touring production or series and one-off performance sponsorship. 

Link your company name to a show which attracts your target audience from our wide ranging programme including panto, drama, dance, opera, comedy, musicals, concerts and family & educational shows. Packages can be tailor-made to suit the business and marketing objectives of your company.

Sponsoring a show at Cork Opera House will give your company unprecedented exposure and specifically; 

Unique brand identity and association with a show/event

Corporate branding on promotional materials

In-venue branding

Advertising across newspaper, magazine, poster and outdoor, electronic and radio media associated with a show

Excellent PR coverage 

Education & Outreach 

We actively seek grant support and corporate donations from partners and businesses to continue the valuable work of our Education and Community Programmes. For further information on how to become an Education Mentor and support our work, see Education & Community Outreach.