The exhibition Saturday night was the last demonstration of The Festival Visit, her most memorable review, which started off in October in London.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Madonna put on a free show on Copacabana ocean side Saturday night, transforming Rio de Janeiro’s tremendous stretch of sand into a huge dance floor overflowing with a large number of her fans.

It was the last demonstration of The Festival Visit, her most memorable review, which started off in October in London.

Madonna acts in the last demonstration of her The Festival Visit, on Copacabana Ocean side in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photograph/Silvia Izquierdo)
Madonna acts in the last demonstration of her The Festival Visit, on Copacabana Ocean side in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photograph/Silvia Izquierdo)
The “Sovereign of Pop” started the show with her 1998 hit “Nothing Truly Has much of any meaning.” Immense cheers rose from the humming, firmly stuffed swarm, squeezed facing the obstructions. Others held local gatherings in splendidly lit condos and lodgings neglecting the ocean front. Helicopters and robots soared over, and speedboats and boats moored off the ocean side filled the cove.

“Here we are in the most gorgeous spot on the planet,” Madonna, 65, told the group. Calling attention to the sea view, the mountains and the Christ the Savior sculpture sitting above the city, she added: “This spot is enchantment.”

Madonna acts in the last demonstration of her The Festival Visit, on Copacabana Ocean side in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado)

Madonna played out her exemplary hits, including “Like A Virgin” and “Hung Up.” For the prologue to “Like A Request,” her head was totally canvassed in a dark cape, a rosary grasped in her grasp.

The star honored “every one of the splendid lights” lost to Helps as she sang “Live to Tell,” with high contrast photographs of individuals who kicked the bucket from the sickness blazing behind her.

Afterward, she was joined in front of an audience by Brazilian specialists Anitta and Pabllo Vittar.

Rio went through the most recent couple of days preparing itself for the exhibition.

An expected 1.6 million individuals went to the show, G1 revealed, refering to Rio City Lobby’s travel industry organization. That is in excess of multiple times Madonna’s record participation of 130,000 at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987. Madonna’s true site advertised the show as the greatest ever in her four-decade profession.

An enthusiast of Madonna, wearing a veil, pauses dramatically during a practice for Madonna’s The Festival Visit, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado)
Fans sit tight for the beginning of Madonna’s last demonstration of her The Festival Visit, on Copacabana ocean side in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, May 4, 2024. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado)
Lately, the buzz was unmistakable. Fans processed outside the impressive, ocean front Copacabana Castle inn, where Madonna is remaining, wanting to get a brief look at the pop star. During the sound mind the stage set up before the inn, they moved on the sand.

By early afternoon Saturday, fans swarmed before the inn. A white-unshaven man conveyed a sign saying, “Welcome Madonna you are the best I love you.”

Banners with “Madonna” printed against a foundation of Copacabana’s notable high contrast waved walkway design swung from galleries. The region was loaded with road sellers and show participants kitted out in themed Shirts, perspiring under a baking sun.

“Since Madonna showed up here, I’ve been coming consistently with this outfit to invite my object of worship, my diva, my pop sovereign,” said Rosemary de Oliveira Bohrer, 69, who donned a gold-shaded cone bra and a dark cap.

“It will be a remarkable show here in Copacabana,” said Oliveira Bohrer, a resigned government employee who lives nearby.

Eighteen sound pinnacles were spread along the ocean side to guarantee that all participants can hear the hits. Her two-hour show began at 10:37 p.m. neighborhood time, almost 50 minutes bogged down.

City Corridor delivered a report in April assessing that the show would vinject 293 million reals ($57 million) into the nearby economy. Inn limit was supposed to reach 98% in Copacabana, as per Rio’s inn affiliation. Fans hailing from across Brazil and even Argentina and France searched out Airbnbs for the end of the week, the stage said in an explanation. Rio’s worldwide air terminal had gauge an extra 170 trips during May 1-6, from 27 objections, City Corridor said in an explanation.

Individuals watch a practice for Madonna’s Festival visit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Madonna will close her visit on Saturday with a free show at Copacabana Ocean side. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado)

Madonna fans dance outside Copacabana Royal residence lodging where Madonna is remaining in front of her Festival visit show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado
A Madonna fan moves outside Copacabana Castle inn where Madonna is remaining in front of her Festival visit show in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, May 3, 2024. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado)
“It’s an extraordinary chance to see Madonna, who knows whether she’ll at any point return,” said Alessandro Augusto, 53, who flew in from Brazil’s Ceara state — roughly 2,500 kilometers (1,555 miles) from Rio.

“Welcome Sovereign!” read Heineken promotions put around the city, the lettering over a picture of an improved container cap looking like a crown.

Heineken wasn’t the main organization looking to benefit from the fervor. Bars and cafés arranged “Like a Virgin” mixed drinks. A shop in the midtown neighborhood renowned for selling Festival clothing totally reexamined itself, loading its racks with Madonna-themed outfits, fans, fanny packs and even clothing.

Association of the super occasion was like New Year’s Eve, when a large number of individuals assemble on Copacabana for its light show, neighborhood specialists said. That yearly occasion frequently delivers inescapable robberies and muggings, and there was some worry such issues could happen at Madonna’s show.

Madonna practices in a cover for her Festival visit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 2, 2024. Madonna, who eliminated her cover toward the finish of practice, will close her visit on Saturday with a free show at Copacabana Ocean side. (AP Photograph/Bruna Prado

Rio state’s security plan incorporated the presence of 3,200 military faculty and 1,500 regular citizen cops ready and waiting. In the number one spot up to the show, Brazil’s naval force reviewed vessels that wished to situate themselves seaward to follow the show.

Various immense shows have occurred on Copacabana ocean side previously, including a 1994 New Year’s Eve show by Bar Stewart that drew multiple million fans and was the greatest free live performance ever, as per Guinness World Records. Large numbers of those observers likewise came to see Rio’s firecrackers show, however, so a seriously fitting examination may be to the Drifters in 2006, which saw 1.2 million individuals swarm onto the sand, as per Rio’s tactical police, the paper Folha de Sao Paulo revealed at that point.

Ana Beatriz Soares, a fan who was at Copacabana on Saturday, said Madonna has left her imprint across the many years.

“Madonna needed to run so that the present pop craftsmen could walk. That is the reason she’s significant, on the grounds that she fills in as a motivation for the present pop divas,” Soares said.

“Furthermore, that is a long time back. Not 40 days, 40 months. It’s 40 years,” she said.