Operation Madonna: Rio, Ready For The Queen Of Pop’s Biggest Concert

This Saturday, May 4, the city of Jaineiro River will be the scene and witness of a milestone in the popular music of the world when it receives the show of Madonna on the beaches of Copacabana. It will be within the framework of The Celebration Tour, twelfth tour in the Queen of Pop’s journey, with which she has already visited destinations such as London, Barcelona, ​​Paris, Berlin, New York, San Francisco and Mexico City. And now it will come to an end in the wonderful city to crown it with a recital with free admission for the public and for which a higher attendance is expected to one million viewers.

At 65 years old, the “material girl” will give what will surely be the most attractive show of her career and for weeks she has been working tirelessly to prepare the stage that is set up at the height of the famous Hotel Belmond Copacabana Palace. The event has been generating high expectations and a lot of anxiety among Madonna’s fans, but not only from Brazil but from all over the world, who in recent days have been arriving in Rio to witness this unique moment.

The stage on which Madonna will do her thing will have a total area of ​​eight hundred square meters and will be elevated to about two and a half meters, with the aim that the pop diva can be visible to everyone present, regardless of their position in the place. . The show, which marks her return to Rio de Janeiro since her last presentation in 2012, is sponsored and financed by a well-known Brazilian bank. In addition, it will be broadcast throughout Brazil by Globe TV.

– The bank of all Dominicans –

Madonna will give a historic show in Rio de Janeiro this Saturday, May 4 (Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation/Handout/REUTERS)

As revealed by Agencia Brasil, the American team arrived in the city last weekend: This is about 270 tons of equipment that were transported in three cargo planes, which arrived at Copacabana beach in more than 30 trucks. Madonna even shared on her social networks aerial images of the stage preparations and her surroundings: the logistics of her recital are similar to those of the “reveillon”, the party with which Cariocas and tourists from all over the world say goodbye to the year on those same beaches, attracting at least a million people every New Year’s Eve.

In recent days, different videos of the artist’s arrival on Brazilian soil have circulated on social media and revealed the madness unleashed in Rio. The fans follow her every move with hysteria, from the landing at the Galeão International Airport to her movement to the Hotel where she is staying, right next to the stage where she will sing this Saturday.

There were even fans who caught the singer in the lobby of the Copacabana Palace. And outside the Hotel, there is already a significant concentration of people who are there both to encourage Madonna and to get a comfortable place in front of the stage. The artist arrived in Brazil accompanied by her large work team, which is composed by more than two hundred people occupying about ninety Hotel rooms.

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The setting up of the stage for Madonna’s show, next to the iconic Copacabana beach, in the center of Rio de Janeiro (REUTERS/Sergio Queiroz)

Madonna started her The Celebration Tour in October of last year at the O2 Arena in London, England. Although she was scheduled to start in July 2023 and in the Canadian city of Vancouver, a serious bacterial infection forced her to be hospitalized for a few weeks to regain her health.

“I didn’t think I was going to make it. My doctors didn’t believe it either. That’s why I woke up with all my children around me,” said the singer upon her return to the stage. “The angels protected me and my children were there. And my children always save me every time,” she added when referring to Lourdes, Rocco, David, Mercy and the twins Stella and Estere.

The premise of this world tour that will end in Rio de Janeiro is, neither more nor less, that the celebration of its 40 years of successful career in music, showing part of their different stages and walking through almost all their studio albums. “This show every night isn’t really that hard on me physically. It’s hard for me emotionally because I’m really telling you my life story. “My heart is on my sleeve,” defined the artist.

Madonna live in 2023

Divided into seven acts, the shows begin with “Nothing Really Matters,” from the album Ray of Light, almost like a declaration of principles. And immediately she travels towards her own prehistory when performing “Everybody”, from her first album, titled Madonna and released in 1983. Almost all of the songs on the long list contain elements of other songs of his or classic pop songs, giving themselves the luxury of paying tribute to icons such as chic either Michael Jackson.

Of course, the list of songs includes unmissable songs like “Into The Groove”, “Like a Prayer”, “Vogue”, “Express Yourself”, “La Isla Bonita” and even a nod to our country – in which in the end there is no presented due to economic setbacks – with the performance of “Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina”.

Madonna will not be the first artist to give a show of these characteristics in the city of Rio de Janeiro. On February 18, 2006, The Rolling Stones They performed in the same place as the American singer and even based themselves in the same Hotel. From a walkway that connected the Copacabana Palace with the giant stage, the long-lived rockstars They came on stage with an impossible triad: “Jumpin’ Jack Flash”, “It’s Only Rock & Roll (but I Like It)” and “You Got Me Rocking”. They were in full A Bigger Bang Tour, which three days later would bring them to Buenos Aires for the third time. And that night they were seen by more than two million peoplebecoming one of the most crowded recitals in history.

Mick Jagger during the historic Rolling Stones show in Rio de Janeiro

On December 31, 1994 Rod Stewart She was part of the “reveillon” celebrations and sang her hits also on Copacabana beach: “Maggie May,” “Baby Jane,” “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” -defined by Stewart himself as a “unconscious plagiarism” on the theme “Taj Mahal” by Jorge Ben, a melody that the Scotsman learned during a carnival in Rio- and “Sailing”, with which he closed. They were just some of the songs that made people delirious. three and a half million people who attended and who made this event the most crowded show in history, entering the book of records as such Guiness.

This mark would be equaled two and a half years later by the Frenchman Jean-Michel Jarre, who was part of the 850th anniversary of the city of Moscow and gave a show at the State University of the Russian capital. The electronic music icon was seen there by 3.5 million attendees and even linked up with the Russian space station as part of its show.

Source: Infobae