Madonna is more than an hour late, but is delighted with the start of the show in Rio

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Madonna was late, of course, but it wasn’t a surprise to many people. There was some anticipation around this show, as it was a special closing to The Celebration Tour, broadcast on TV Globo, scheduled to start at 9.45pm.

The North American resorted to her royal (pop) blood, for which time flows at its own pace, and took all the time she wanted to reach the gigantic stage set up in Copacabana, erected 2.4 meters from the floor.

Dressed in black, neck to floor, and with a halo around her head, Madonna finally appears at 10.47pm, 62 minutes late. Elegant, chin held high, she begins the performance with Nothing Really Matters, a song from the classic Grammy-winning album Ray of Light (1998). “Nothing really matters, love is all we need,” Madonna sings.

The audience, expected to number 1.5 million, of course, sang and shouted, struck by the grandeur of the spectacle.

They all come later, as a reminder of a Madonna from the past, from 1983, when she debuted with the album that bore her name. Energetic, with intense rhythms and a chorus that invites you to dance, the music raises the temperature of Copacabana. “Okay, Rio de Janeiro!” Madonn shouted, before editing Into the Groove.

“Finally we did it! We have arrived! Thanks for waiting for me. I’m so happy to be here, I don’t know if you understand that.”

In a long conversation with the audience, Madonna jokes about not speaking Portuguese, revisits her arrival in New York with dreams of becoming a dancer and explains that she did what she needed to do to climb the music ladder pop.

“Without a dream, you don’t make the possible possible,” he says, like some kind of coach. “Remember the past, the present of what is yet to come. Keep all this, okay?”

After this sequence, Madonna sang the electrifying Burning Up and Open Your Heart, the first major chorus sung by thousands of people in Copacabana.

Nothing compares to the celebration of the holidays and the high dose of energy.

Opening with Macetando and funk

DJ Diplo’s performance, which took place at 8.15pm, divided opinions. The North American artist, an old acquaintance of Brazilian music, has prepared a sequence of songs designed to satisfy the tastes of the audience already packed in front of the stage set up in Copacabana.

Diplo opted for electronic music themes interspersed with popular Brazilian hits, mainly Macetando, by Ivete Sangalo with Ludmilla, the biggest hit of the 2024 carnival, and other funk, with names like Renan da Penha from Rio.

The biggest complaint about the set, which ended at 9.20pm, was the alternating volume, especially during the chorus, so the audience could sing along – in a way there were those who preferred to listen to the original version, not the person next to them.

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MC in the style of Marie Antoinette

As usual, before Madonna’s arrival, Bob, The Drag Queen appeared, who worked as a kind of master of ceremonies, preparing the audience before the queen’s appearance. She dressed as Marie Antoinette, queen consort of France and wife of Louis XVI, with a tall wig adorned with a huge white feather and a pink dress.

Who plays Bob is Christopher Delmar Caldwell, actor, musician, comedian and winner of the eighth season of the reality show RuPauls’s Drag Race.

“This is a celebration,” he shouted excitedly.

The end of the Celebration Tour

Madonna’s idea was to take the tour celebrating four decades of her career – and will it be the last? – as a message: as if to reiterate her importance, as one of the most significant artists to understand what pop is known for.

This is the biggest show of Madonna’s career (and one of the biggest in history). Madonna is unlikely to repeat Rod Stewart’s feat, in front of more than 4 million people, due to the different structure of the shows.

However, everything is superlative. The assembled stage structure measures 821 m², with three walkways. The Celebration Tour spanned 14 countries over 80 shows. The show, lasting 120 minutes, is divided into seven acts, with changes of clothes, guests and scenography (the production has in fact separated 45 trunks with clothes for the changes of clothes between the Queen of Pop and the dancers).

Source: Terra

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