2036 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

The opening ceremony of the 2036 Summer Olympics took place on the evening of Friday 5 September 2036 in the Azteca Stadium, Mexico City, starting at 20:36 Mexician time (23:36 UTC). As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings combined the formal ceremonial opening of this international sporting event, including welcoming speeches, hoisting of the flags and the parade of athletes, as well as the presentation of the International Olympic Committee's Olympic Laurel distinction, with an artistic spectacle to showcase the host nation's culture and history. The Games were officially opened by President of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Directed by Gary Alazraki, Carlos Carrera, and Alfonso Cuarón, with it produced by Five Currents and Balich Worldwide Shows (co-produced by Feld Entertainment), the ceremony featured presentations of the history and culture of Mexico, including its Architecture and Music, which featured several Mexican music genres. The ceremony made nods to the past Olympics—such as the LED door, inspired by Beijing 2022, and the cauldron, based off of the London 2012 one. Also, it made one nod to the Pan American Games—That nod being that Alejandro Fernández performed the Mexican national anthem to pay tribute to the late Vicente Fernández, who was his father.

Nonetheless, it was praised for being "the most visionally stunning ceremony in Mexico since the 2011 Pan-American Games of Guajadajara".

## Dignitaries in attendance

### Host country dignitaries

* Mexico –
	+ President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador
	+ President of the Senate, Olga Sánchez Cordero
	+ President of the Chamber of Deputies, Sergio Gutiérrez Luna
	+ President of the Mexico Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games María José Alcalá

### Dignitaries from abroad

* Armenia – President Armen Sarksyan
* Australia – Minister for Sport Richard Colbeck and Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk
* Bulgaria – Minister of Youth and Sports Andrey Kuzmanov
* Canada – Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion Carla Qualtrough
* China – Chinese Olympic Committee (COC) President Gou Zhongwen
* Croatia – Former president and member of the International Olympic Committee Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović
* Finland – Minister of Science and Culture Antti Kurvinen
* France – President Emmanuel Macron
* Greece – Deputy Minister of Culture and Sport Lefteris Avgenakis
* India – Minister of Sports Anurag Thakur
* Italy – Secretary for sports Valentina Vezzali
* Jordan – Prince Faisal bin Hussein
* Kosovo – President Vjosa Osmani
* Lithuania – Vice Minister for Science, Education, and Sport Linas Obcarskas
* Luxembourg – Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg
* Monaco – Sovereign Prince of Monaco Albert II, Prince of Monaco
* Mongolia – Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene
* Montenegro – Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić
* Poland – President Andrzej Duda
* San Marino – Captains Regent Gian Carlo Venturini and Marco Nicolini
* Singapore - Speaker of the Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin
* Slovenia – Minister for Research, Education and Sport Simona Kustec
* South Korea – Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hwang Hee
* South Sudan – Fourth Vice President Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior
* Switzerland – President Guy Parmelin
* Turkmenistan – Deputy Prime Minister Serdar Berdimukhamedov
* United Kingdom – Minister for Sport Nigel Huddleston
* United States – First Lady Jill Biden

### Dignitaries from international organizations

* International Olympic Committee – President Thomas Bach and IOC members, Chair of the IOC Ethics Commission and Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
* United Nations – High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi
* World Health Organization – Director-General Tedros Adhanom

## Anthems

* National Anthem of Mexico – Alejandro Fernández
* Olympic Anthem – Conservatorio Nacional de Música

### Ceremony announcers

English - Fernando Viña

French - Nathanaël de Rincquesen

Spanish - Álvaro Morales

### Other members

Carlos Sandoval - Music director

Enrico Chapela - Composer

Juan Trigos - Composer

Javier Torres Maldonado - Composer

Roberto Cortázar - Scenographer

Alejandro Alcondez - Set designer

César A. Amigó - Executive producer

Nicolás Celis - Executive writer

Arturo Márquez - Assistant musical director

Julio Chavezmontes - Senior adviser to the executive producer

Antonio Salinas - Director of choreography

Rodrigo Reyes - Film director

Guillermo Arriaga - Film director

Simon Bross - Film director