Considered the most influential newspaper in the world, the “New York Times” highlighted Madonna’s historic show on Copacabana Beach, held last Saturday (04/05).
In a publication on Sunday (05/05), the North American media outlet stated that “the show in Rio de Janeiro was a milestone in the singer’s career”, with the largest audience (around 1.6 million people) of his 40 years of musical history. O ”NY Times” also highlighted that, “In a time of astronomical ticket prices and rising production costs for major shows, a free concert that attracts a crowd of this scale is extremely rare”.
The show gained prominence on the vehicle’s Instagram where it had tens of thousands of likes, in free translation it says:
“Madonna performed a huge free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on Saturday, wrapping up her global tour and scoring the biggest live crowd of her four-decade career.
The show was a grand finale to the pop superstar’s retrospective Celebration Tour, which has performed 80 performances since last October. Without ticket data, concert crowd size can be difficult to assess; Riotur, the city’s tourism department, estimated that 1.6 million people flooded the 3.8-kilometer stretch of sand on Saturday, which had been transformed into a park measuring approximately 111 square meters around the 808-square-meter stage. .
It was the culmination of days of “Madonna-mania” in the city, where talk about the singer was inevitable. Her songs played in stores and on car radios. Fans gathered outside her hotel and chanted her name. Updates about the concert, which was broadcast on the Globo television network, dominated local media reports.
“Here we are, in the most beautiful place in the world,” Madonna announced at the beginning of the concert, indicating the ocean and mountains around her. “It is magic.” She later expressed her gratitude for her Brazilian fans. “You have always been here for me,” she said. “That flag: that green and yellow flag, I see it everywhere. I feel it in my heart.”
Balance sheet released
This Monday (06), the balance of the event was released. According to the State Government, Madonna’s arrival in RJ generated more than R$300 million to the Rio de Janeiro economy.
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