Madonna: The Celebration Tour in Rio

Saw this tour in Paris. Absolutely amazing. I can't believe this woman is 65 years old. Always so much energy and presence on stage.

She redefined pop concerts in the 80s/90s with the Blond Ambition tour and the Girlie Show. With this twelfth tour, She's now pushing the lines for mature women in pop while paying tribute to her career and to all the people she met and who played an important role in her life. It is simply poetic, narrative and well constructed, moving, energetic and impressive. The scenography is sumptuous. The light is modern. Stuart Price's arrangements are perfect.

This concert in Rio is impressive. All this crowd. This is madness. Only Madonna can generate this and it is for this reason that she remains the queen of pop.

I saw Madonna on this same tour last year in Amsterdam, it was absolutely mesmerising!, this special really captures the feel you got when you were actually at her show, of course this live registration could've been better (in terms of camera angles), but it's nice to have Madonna's biggest show in proshot! Hats off to everyone who made this huge production possible, and of course to a 65 year old Madonna who can still pull of a show like this! (and can even do a head roll on a five meters of hight platform).

I really loved the opening of this show (Nothing Really Matter), the first act, dedicated to the 80's was really great. Live To Tell (dedicated to all people who lost their lives to aids) and Like A Prayer are certainly the highlights of the first act. The second act is dedicated to the 90's (accept of her performing Hung Up in this act, which was released in 2005), for me the highlights of this act were Erotica, Hung Up and Bad Girl. Than we come to Vogue, which lasts almost 9 minutes if I'm not mistaken, this performances was really great but you could say that even the performance of Vogue on her theater tour was better (2019-2020). After that part the show kinda takes a dip, even though all that comes after that is still much better than most popstar's highlights on their shows. Overal this show is amazing and we are lucky to even get a retrospective show by Madonna, since she always said she would never want to do anything like this. I give the show itself a 8,5/10 and this live registration a 7/10.

The Celebration Tour in Rio was performed in front of 1.6 million Brazilian fans, and celebrated Madonna's four decades in the music industry. Before the tour Madonna did a truth or dare and Amy Schumer dared Madonna to do a greatest hits tour, which Madonna agreed to do.

Unfortunately, just as the tour was to begin Madonna suffered a bacterial infection and was admitted to hospital, so dates were cancelled and the tour postponed.

Like all Madonna shows the lighting and the sets were amazing, and the choreography reflected the themes for the songs. It is unclear whether a video will be released for this show, or a live CD made available.

Only a legend of pop can be do an amazing concert visual music effects, ever at all was so beautiful, Madonna hold on the crown with a dignity like a queen, even though the concert had the instrumentals I felt so immersive and experience the fourth anniversary of career it was so fantastic, I cried, I danced, I sang along everything was magic.

Madonna together with Pablo vittar dancing with the the Brazil flag was so and powerful to LGBT+ community, women, native Indian, black and favela people.

What became the event more special it was the to bring Brazilian personalities me like a Brazilian person felt so represented.

Several times we get to hear a playbacked version of Madonna's voice. THAT"S NOT REALLY LIVE MUSIC AT ALL! That is such a disappointment / shame and a real sin for a live concert.

I mean really, when I go to a LIVE concert I wanna hear live music and not some playback sound recording covering up for the fact that Madonna's voice isnt what it used to be.

Most of the time Madonna's voice gets WAY overpowered by a prerecorded soundtrack or a blasting backing choir.

Madonna's real voice (which we get to hear ocassionally) sounds really flat and small nowadays and not nearly as powerful and beautiful as it once was.

Not any good then? How about the show? It's big. And that's about the only thing that is out of the ordinary. But more people, more and bigger videoscreens dont make for a good concert. But for those who like big and lots of dancing by others on stage, go ahead and give it a try...

I would rather put on any older concert from the nineties than this shameful PLAYBACK show. Such a shame that she often doesnt use her own voice or is overpowered by a backing choir, because Madonna's voice has gone flat and small.