Madonna performs during The Celebration Tour at The O2 Arena on October 15, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation)
Madonna is set to perform for a massive crowd at Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Copacabana Beach in early May, Brazilian media and tourism officials announced.
“Yes, it’s true: Madonna is coming to Brazil for a mega show on May 4, which can potentially become the largest show of the Queen of Pop’s four-decade career,” the Rio de Janeiro-based newspaper O Globo, one of the country’s most traditional publications, reported Thursday.
Rio de Janeiro’s official tourism office, Visit Rio, also told Brazilians to “get ready” for “a free and historic” show with Madonna at Copacabana Beach, adding the singer has chosen the city to wrap her international Celebration Tour.
The show, which is being paid for by the Brazilian bank Itaú, is said to be a celebration of Madonna’s 40-year career and the bank’s 100th anniversary.
For months, social media platforms in Brazil have been inundated with rumors of a possible Madonna concert in Brazil, where she last performed in 2012, bringing her ninth concert tour, MDNA, to three different cities in the country.
Last year, after the multi-Grammy-winning artist announced she would go on a world tour to celebrate her 40-year career, fans in South America couldn’t hide their disappointment when it was announced the 80-stop tour would only include cities in North America and Europe.
But according to Brazilian media, that likely changed after the “Express Yourself” singer signed a multi-million-dollar contract to create and star in a television ad for Itaú.
Directed by Madonna’s longtime collaborator Jonas Åkerlund, who directed the singer’s Grammy-winning video “Ray of Light” in 1989, the 60-second film centers around the bank’s “Made of Future” anniversary theme and earned the…