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Updated Saturday, March 9, 2024-12:40
The combination confirmed by the star and the venue is too powerful not to aspire to something very big: when this May 4, Madonna takes the stage on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro,
one million spectators
will be part of the concert biggest that the American has ever given.
That is, at least, the expectation that the organizers of the Brazilian stage of the Celebration Tour
have set
, confirmed this week.
Given the history of popular festivals in Brazil and
the "thirst for Madonna" that exists in neighboring countries, especially Argentina,
it would not be strange if that million people ended up being a conservative expectation.
One fact is enough to understand the dimension of Madonna's Brazilian scale in less than two months in Rio de Janeiro: the largest audience recorded at a concert of hers so far was
126,000 people in 1990
, on a date of the
Blond Ambition
tour in the Old Wembley Stadium, London.
The
show
also has the particularity of being free, although there are already "tickets" for sale on the Internet.
Madonna was
invited and hired by one of the largest banks in Latin America
, the Brazilian Itaú, for her fourth visit to Brazil.
The Brazilian media recalled that the 65-year-old singer has a history in her country, after the first visit in 1993, in which she performed before 120,000 people at the legendary Maracaná, among other stops.
"In 2009, the news that Madonna was dating the Brazilian model Jesús Luz was received by fans with the pride of winning a World Cup," noted
O Globo
, which also recalled a private visit by the pop star to the Rio Carnival in 2010.
Hotels and accommodations near Copacabana beach have already tripled their prices for the weekend of May 4 and 5, and values are expected to continue growing.
Security, in an
already violent
city , is a concern for the Rio authorities, although there is plenty of experience: the Copacabana area usually receives notable crowds during Carnival and New Year's Eve celebrations.
Last December 31, two million people came together on Rio beach, one of the most famous in the world.