RO DE JANEIRO.- Everything ready in the city of Ro de Janeirowhich is bubbling with expectations and nerves a few hours before “The Queen of Pop”, Madonnaoffer a monumental concert free tonight -May 4- on the legendary Copacabana beach.
The 65-year-old American artist will close the tour The Celebration Tour with a show for which 1.5 million fully dedicated souls are expected to attend.
D-Day comes after weeks of intense preparations in which thousands of people worked and which generated an unusual stir for these dates in the iconic Brazilian city, where nothing else is talked about.
“I’m on edge, I haven’t slept well, I’ve been listening to Madonna all week. It’s like I’m having a big energy rush,” In Odara, a 29-year-old sociologist who sports a phrase from her dola tattooed on her shoulder, told AFP. arm: “Everything you learned, try to forget it.” “Madonna helped me leave the Catholic Church, to think about many things, to change my relationship with my family,” added this trans woman near the stage raised on the sand, which is twice the size of previous ones. shows of the tour, with more than 800 m2.
As night falls, the largest dance floor in the world will light up with several DJs performing.
And around 9:50 p.m. (00:50 GMT on Sunday), Madonna will walk along an elevated walkway from the emblematic Copacabana Palace hotel, where she is staying, to the stage for what will be the most important performance of her career.
Of Like a Virgin to act with your children
After 80 performances in Europe and North America, the concert in Rio will be the finishing touch to a tour that became especially significant, after a serious bacterial infection in June raised fears for the singer’s life.
Since 1984 the success Like a Virgin Catapulting her onto the international scene, Madonna released an album every two or three years and today she is considered one of the greatest pop artists of all time.
Their performances have set the standard for their spectacular productions, but also because they gave the world of entertainment iconic moments such as kissing Britney Spears at the MTV Music Video Awards in 2003.
Her irreverence generated a tumultuous relationship with the Catholic Church, to the point of being excommunicated by Pope John Paul II for her video of Like a Prayerconsidered blasphemous.
After four decades, it continues to amaze the industry and the public with its ability to innovate.
And today, the chameleon-like Madonna will be all the Madonnas for two hours: the material girl, the girlfriend, the mischievous Catholic, the virgin, the cowgirl… also the one who claims her eroticism, and simultaneously motherhood: four of her six children. They will share the stage with her.
Madonna prepares in Ro
Two rehearsals in full view of everyone, the eve of the concert offered some clues as to what would happen.
Madonna enton Nothing Really Matters y Burning Up. Also Live To Tellwith which to pay tribute to victims of AIDS, including Freddie Mercury and the legendary Brazilian musician Cazuza.
The singer Pabllo Vittar and a group of young people who played drums to the rhythm of funk also rehearsed.
In addition, the presence of Anitta, the queen of funk, who in 2020 made Makes it delicious in collaboration with Madonna.
Other inevitable hits from the thirties that he will perform will be the captivating Material Girl, Papa Don’t Preach and the melody The beautiful island.
The concert is a great economic bet by Rio de Janeiro, which injected 20 million reais (USD 4 million) of the 12 million dollars that the production costs.
The authorities estimate that the show will contribute 293 million reais (USD 57 million) to the local economy.
On every corner of Copacabana there are billboards, souvenirs or T-shirts with Madonna’s face or emulating a version of Jean Paul Gaultier’s conical corset that the diva made famous.
Since he arrived on Monday, hundreds of his fans have swarmed in front of the Copacabana Palace.
But the excitement rose several decibels on Thursday night, when Madonna appeared unexpectedly at a sound check and sang with her face completely covered by a yellow balaclava.
The scene was repeated on Friday. “Oi Rio!” she shouted in Portuguese to those who had approached the stage in the hope of seeing her.
“Hi queen Madonna!”, say this night in Rio.
FUENTE: AFP
