Madonna is bringing her Celebration Tour to a close in grand fashion with a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
With the massive show set for Saturday, which could tally up to 1.5 million fans on the beach, the Material Girl herself was on the stage conducting a sound check to make sure everything goes smoothly come show time.
Despite this being a session to work out any potential issues that may arise, the pop superstar appeared to be taking this more like an actual show decked out in a stylish all-black outfit and a green balaclava mask.
Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone) sang snippets of her songs to backing music while dressed in shorts with a bustier over a matching sheer top and a glittering silver ensemble around her neck.
The Queen Of Pop also added some of the extra fashion touches her fans would expect that includes fishnet stockings, a black lace gloves that covered most of her arms and bulky leather boots.
Madonna, 65, looked to be in top form as she rehearsed on stage ahead of her show on Saturday in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which serves as the finale for The Celebration Tour
The conclusion of The Celebration Tour is expected to bring in up to 1.5 million concertgoers, which would be the largest audience of the pop superstar’s career
The pop icon rehearsed intensely, like she typically does, surrounded by an assortment of international dancers and musicians.
While the megastar singer, 65, wore a balaclava mask on stage as she put on a very raunchy display while practicing her jaw-dropping performance, she also wore a knee brace for rehearsals to help avoid any injuries.
The Like A Virgin star previously revealed she had to undergo regenerative treatment after suffering extreme pain due to knee surgery.
Eventually, she decided to finally undergo knee surgery in April 2020 followed by hip surgery in November 2020 as well as ‘regenerative treatment for my missing cartilage.’
Billed as ‘the biggest dance floor in the world,’ the show out front of the Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel doesn’t require fans to get tickets, while Brazil’s TV Globo broadcasts the concert live, according to Rolling Stone.
The local mayor’s office has prepared an operation equivalent to the one used for New Year’s Eve celebrations in Copacabana, which is one of the most famous in the world that typically brings in some one million people.
The concert will only be broadcast locally in Brazil. Fans outside Brazil can livestream the big event online on a cable streaming service that carries TV Globo or through a Virtual Private Network (VPN).
Copacabana Beach has been the site of a number of huge concert gatherings over the years, including Rod Stewart, who had 4 million concertgoers for is show in 1994, while the Rolling Stones reportedly had a crowd of 1.5 million in 2006.
Decked out in classic Material Girl garb and a mask, the pop superstar sang snippets of her classic songs
Along with her mask, Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone) also wore black shorts with a bustier over a matching sheer top and a glittering silver ensemble around her neck
The Queen Of Pop also added some of the extra fashion touches fans would expect such as fishnet stockings, a black lace gloves that covered most of her arms and bulky leather boots
The Rebel Heart star wore a knee brace for rehearsals after previously undergoing regenerative treatment following knee surgery
Madonna kicked-off her first-ever retrospective tour at The O2 Arena on London, England back on October 14, and proceeded to travel across Europe into the beginning of December.
She would eventually open the U.S. leg of the tour in New York City on December 13 and then take the show into the the rest of the States and Canada until an April 15 concert in Austin, Texas.
From there, the pop superstar brought the tour to Mexico City for a five night run at Palacio de los Deportes that ended on April 26.
Madonna’s Celebration Tour has been going on for the last eight months
a large crowd of fans gathered to watch Madonna during her rehearsals
At certain points the singer-songwriter sat down on a bench as they worked on the sound
The Celebration Tour kicked-off back on October 14, 2023 with a series of shows in London
This was Madonna’s first-ever retrospective tour in which she paid homage to her four-decade-plus career dating back to the early 1980s
Madonna also got in some rehearsal time in with singer and drag queen Pabllo Vittar
The Material Girl appeared to get an extra pep to her step with Vittar
The pop icon also added the colors of Brazil to her ensemble at this point in rehearsals
After having thee last week off to prepare for the Celebration Tour finale in Rio de Janeiro, Madonna is now preparing for what is expected to be the largest audience she has ever play for during her illustrious career.
The Celebration Tour not only pays homage to her long history of hit songs, Madonna also uses the platform to tell the story of how she become a global pop icon after arriving in New York City in 1978 with just $35 in her pocket.
It would take five years until she released her self-titled debut record in 1983 that shot her to the top of the pop world with hits like Everybody, Holiday, Borderline, Luck Star and Burning Up.
Working the crowd that gathered, the Into The Groove star raised the Brazilian flag up into the air, which got a roar from the crowd
The Michigan native also strapped on her electric guitar during the soundcheck
Fans in Rio de Janeiro are already in party mode ahead of the much-anticipated concert
Billed as ‘the biggest dance floor in the world,’ the show outside the Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel doesn’t require fans to get tickets
With sales of over 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is the best-selling female recording artist of all time
Over the course of her illustrious career, the Bay City, Michigan native has released 14 studio album, with the most recent being Madam X in 2019.
Her retrospective tour came on the heels of her remix album – Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, which marks Madonna scoring 50 number one hit songs on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, the most number ones of any artist on any single Billboard chart.
With sales of over 300 million records worldwide, Madonna is the best-selling female recording artist of all time.
She is also a mother of six that includes her four adopted kids David, 18, Mercy, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 11, as well as two biological children: Rocco, 23, from her marriage to ex-husband and filmmaker Guy Ritchie, 55, and Lourdes, 27, whom she shares with ex-partner and actor Carlos Leon, 57.
