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• Song played from tape Virgin Mary (with Kalakan ) ( with snippets of "Psalm 91" and "Birjina Gaztetto bat Zegoen" ) Play Video
• Girl Gone Wild ( with samples from "Material Girl" and "Give It 2 Me" ) Play Video
• Revolver Play Video
• Gang Bang Play Video
• Papa Don't Preach Play Video
• Hung Up ( with samples from "Girl Gone Wild" ) Play Video
• I Don't Give A Play Video
• Song played from tape Best Friend ( video interlude; with samples from "Heartbeat" ) Play Video
• Express Yourself ( with snippets of "Born This Way" by Lady Gaga and "She's Not Me" ) Play Video
• Give Me All Your Luvin' Play Video
• Song played from tape Radio Dial Static ( video interlude; with samples from several Madonna songs ) Play Video
• Turn Up the Radio Play Video
• Open Your Heart (with Kalakan ) ( with snippet of "Sagarra jo!" by Kalakan ) Play Video
• Masterpiece (with Kalakan ) Play Video
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• Song played from tape Justify My Love ( video interlude ) Play Video
• Vogue Play Video
• Candy Shop ( with samples from "Ashamed of Myself" by Kelley Polar and snippets of "Erotica" ) Play Video
• Human Nature Play Video
• Like a Virgin ( with snippets of "Evgeni's Waltz" by Abel Korzeniowski ) Play Video
• Song played from tape Nobody Knows Me ( video interlude ) Play Video
• I'm Addicted Play Video
• I'm a Sinner (with Kalakan ) ( with snippets of "Cyber-Raga" ) Play Video
• Like a Prayer ( with snippets of "De treville-n azken hitzak" by Kalakan ) Play Video
• Celebration ( with samples from "Girl Gone Wild" ) Play Video

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Madonna   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ July 17, 2012 Hyde Park, London ………………………………………………………………………………………….

Not known for subtlety, Madonna rolled into London on the jetstream of controversy trailing from her previous MDNA live shows: namely her excessive firearm use, flesh-flashing in Italy and superimposing a swastika over Marine Le Pen’s face in a video montage in Paris. Anyone thinking that Madonna is past her best should parallel the current controversies with the Blonde Ambition era, where she was nearly arrested in Toronto for merely simulating masturbation.

In a beautiful and theatrical opening sequence, a huge incense lantern swings from the ceiling and red-cloaked monks ring a church bell against a backdrop of a huge crucifix adorned with the letters MDNA. As the crucifix opens, a confessional box appears on the stage and we hear the lady of the hour give her ‘Act Of Contrition’. In a breathtaking entrance and set-piece, Madonna appears to smash the glass with a rifle whilst wearing a catsuit and thigh high boots any Tarantino heroine would kill for. She takes to the floor with the now disrobed clergymen, and a banging rendition of the Benassi produced stomper ‘Girl Gone Wild’ electrifies the stage. Using the underrated ‘Revolver’ to segue into the pitch-dark, dubstep number ‘Gang Bang’, the gun-toting badass takes a swig from a bottle of bourbon in a sleazy motel room, about to embark on a murder spree involving some visceral imagery and fantastically choreographed moves.

As the iconic strings of ‘Papa Don’t Preach’ reverberate around Hyde Park, the crowd goes into hysteria, the musical chameleon writhing around the stage for her rendition of the ‘80s track. As some henchmen appear and cast her in chains, she is then carried off and we hear the riffs of ‘Hung Up’ underpinned by dramatic church bells with vocoder vocals against a stripped down, abridged version of the dancefloor anthem. Madonna then wows the crowd with an impressive, albeit assisted, walk on the slacklines with her captors, before bursting into an aggressive rendition of ‘I Don’t Give A ****’, the crowd going wild when Nicki Minaj appears on the video screen to deliver her fantastic middle-eight rap.

As our vixen disappears through the floor, the tone has formidably been set for a cathartic, ambiguous, sexually-charged, tongue-in-cheek, preachy, vibrant, emotional evening, all of which typify a Madonna concert.

The mood lightens with the fantastic ‘Express Yourself’, with a sly dig at Lady Gaga where she incorporates lyrics from ‘Born This Way’, but the joke backfires when Madonna all too seriously sings ‘She’s Not Me’. We get that Gaga was inspired by this song, but the point is beaten to a bitter death and one must not forget how Madonna has been “influenced” by other artists over the past three decades. I was left longing for the days where the Queen of Pop once supported her junglings by draping their names across her T-shirts.

Another low point of the show is a risible, bawdy performance of album filler ‘Candy Shop’. These blips, however, are rebalanced by a wondrous folky Basque version of ‘Open Your Heart’, featuring Basque trio Kalakan. ‘Vogue’ is executed beautifully with a stunning self-referencing Gaultier outfit bringing that conical bra smack bang into the noughties.

‘Like A Prayer’ is as superlative as ever, with a huge choir adding to the song’s emotional punch. The ethereal ‘I’m A Sinner’ features some outstanding choreography and the latest album’s stand-out track ‘I’m Addicted’ has Madonna belting out the lyrics with some truly inspired Japanese dance compositions.

One of the show’s two highlights is a formidable performance of ‘Celebration’ with some sensational, vibrant visuals. Madonna truly lets go and dances around like a woman 30 years her junior on a plinth, more than keeping up with her backing dancers, in a fantastic closer to the show. The show’s stopper, though, is a thoroughly genuine and passionate reinterpretation of ‘Like A Virgin’, although the dramatic and loaded impact suffers at the hands of the Westminster’s noise abatement legislation. I must admit the show would be far better suited to a more intimate, indoor venue.

People will inevitably criticise Madonna for not kow-towing to the tiresome nostalgics amongst us and not doing a Greatest Hits tour-by-numbers. Those pining for usual stompers ‘Music’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘Ray Of Light’ should leave their longing at the gates. The setlist is a 50/50 split of MDNA tracks and reworked classics with a welcome smattering of more obscure tracks like ‘Cyberraga’.

Much like the self-referential MDNA , the show has elements of past personas and the darker, edgier vixens present in some of the MDNA tracks. A very cathartic journey, MDNA is a brilliantly executed show with some overly preachy moments rebuffed by some sheer, visceral wonder and some stomping renditions. Madonna continues to show the pretenders how it’s done and has just set the bar even higher.

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Swarovski Presents: Backstage at Madonna's MDNA tour

Released on 08/28/2012

(Turn up the Radio by Madonna)

(audience cheers)

Madonna is involved with everything, she has final say,

just like the background to how things work,

why the color's there,

how comes there's a piece

that fits together and watching the whole process

when they're actually directing it

was absolutely incredible because you get to see

all of that develop.

♫ To feel the wind on your face and your skin

♫ And it’s here I begin my story

On show day, we're here at 9 a.m.

And we start prepping and all this stuff

gets checked every day, it gets retouched.

Everything gets steamed and ironed.

We have two cases filled to the brim

with 30 racks each.

It's unreal how much goes into one night's performance.

One of the most significant things in the show

is the patent stiletto heel with the Swarovski crystal

that opens the show, it's never been done before.

It's the first time that anybody's done it on stage.

[Woman] I had to keep these wrapped special for Tony.

That's right, yes. (woman chuckles)

So they won't get scuffed. I put my name on those.

♫ I'm so tired of playing--

[Lana] Over 315,000 Swarovski elements were used

on the tour, and most of our sparkle happens during Vogue.

This is Pono's mask that he wears in Vogue.

♫ Turn up the radio

[Lana] We've got the top hats, we've got the riding props

and gorgeous masks, when that light shines

and they feel amazing on that stage, they work it.

All of these little loops are also crystals.

Each one of them is a circle that's linked together.

If you count all of those too, there'd probably

be a few thousand, yeah, easy and then the very finale

is Celebration where she wears this, which is like

it's off the hook, you have to see it.

It's incredible, it's just you'll get chills.

They really are just show stoppers, everything.

These crystals add so much.

Nothing makes an impact like Swarovski

but it's such an incredible element and important

to any show that anybody does, you just can't do without it.

♫ Let me turn up the radio (vocalizing)

(electricity buzzing)

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Madonna Wows Fans As She Brings 'MDNA' Tour To London's Hyde Park

18 July 2012, 09:15 | Updated: 18 July 2012, 10:28

The 'Masterpiece' singer began her UK tour with a spectacular show in Hyde Park this week.

Madonna kicked off the UK leg of her 'MDNA' world tour last night in London's Hyde Park with a powerful show themed around violence, sex and religion.

The 53 year-old singer took to the stage on Tuesday evening (17th July) around half past eight to begin her highly anticipated UK show with a rousing performance of recent single 'Girl Gone Wild' , and dove straight in to a stripped back concert that saw her lead the crowd through a set mostly based around new album 'MDNA' alongside a few classics from her extensive back catalogue.

Madonna showed off her inner action hero during performances of 'Revolver' and 'Gang Bang' by mock shooting down several assailants while blood spatters were splashed across the stage big screens, before keeping the audience keen with older hits like 'Papa Don't Preach' and 'Hung Up', all of which were reworked to have more of an 'MDNA' feel.

View a picture of Madonna brandishing a prop gun on stage in Hyde Park below (Credit: Getty):

Celebrity guests at the much hyped Hyde Park show included supermodel Kate Moss, singer Kylie Minogue, George Michael and Madonna's regular collaborator William Orbit, who tweeted ahead of the concert: "Really looking forward to seeing Madonna in Hyde Park tonight!! I'll be singing along with everybody else!"

Standout moments from the extensive two-hour live set included Madonna's mash-up of her single 'Express Yourself' with Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way', which draw huge cheers from the crowd and boasted a regiment of drummers suspended above the stage, as well as an emotional piano-led performance of her 1984 hit 'Like A Virgin'.

The 'Give Me All Your Luvin' singer interacted with the crowd regularly throughout the show, making jokes about the inevitable rain downpour and taking time to introduce her son Rocco on stage who then preceded to join the star's backing dancers for the remainder of the concert.

Madonna wrapped her Hyde Park performance with a rousing gospel choir led performance of 'Like A Prayer', before ending with a remix of 'Celebration' to round off the show. 

Madonna's 'MDNA' UK tour continues with two further performances tomorrow (19th July) at Birmingham's NIA and on Saturday (21st July) at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh.

Check out full highlights of Madonna's London performance in Hyde Park in our gallery below:

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Madonna, Hyde Park, review

Neil McCormick reviews US pop star Madonna's concert at Hyde Park, part of her MDNA Tour.

No one pulled the plug on Madonna at Hyde Park. Well, who would dare? Judging by the content of this show, she might garrotte, kick, shoot or whip any antagonist, then make a sanctimonious speech about world peace over their broken and bleeding body.

It was a typically sensationalist and schizophrenic Madonna production, mixing sex, ultra violence, religion, kitsch and politics to bizarre but entertaining effect.

It has been an interesting week of Hyde Park concerts, with big guns all impressing in very different ways. Springsteen did it with charisma, emotional content and dynamic rock power. Paul Simon did it with subtlety, detail and complex musical interplay. Madonna did it with lights, dancers, giant video screens, hydraulics, costume changes, flying drummers, tightrope walking, cheerleaders, a basque folk trio ... And music too.

I have criticised Madonna in the past for an over reliance on backing tracks and backing singers to fill in the vocal gaps while she's doing her yoga moves. But amidst the autotuned super-choreographed dance productions, the real highlight of this show was a stripped back version of Like A Virgin , performed to piano and violin in the style of Brechtian cabaret. Fragile and intense, it openly embraced the ever present subtext of her age, displaying a sexual vulnerability that was far more resonant and effective than her brief stint as a superannuated cheerleader during Gimme All Ure Luvvin . I honestly did not suspect she had that performance in her. It suggests that she might actually have somewhere creative to go as her pop appeal wanes.

Her latest album, MDNA , has been a bit of a flop, in large part, I suspect, because she's trying too hard to keep up with the kids. Live she plays to different strengths, emphasising her showmanship with enough drama and spectacle to cover up the gap in class between her classic hits and rather more feeble recent stabs at electropop. The opening section is actually quite unpleasantly aggressive, particularly the blood spatter and multiple murders set piece for Gang Bang , although it's hard to deny that aggression suits her. Madonna stomps around the set in black leather like an ageing dominatrix, which is hard to equate with the love-in at the end, with monks, Buddhists and gospel singers joining in a happy clappy version of Like A Prayer .

But Madonna makes no attempt at consistency. Perhaps that's part of her genius, everything and anything goes. During Express Yourself , she even threw in a few bars of Lady GaGa's Born This Way , then danced around singing "She's not me, she's not me". For sheer wacky mass pop entertainment, Madonna proved herself more than equal to the challenge of all her young pretenders.

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Madonna, hyde park, the mdna tour finds madge disastrously sapping the joy out of even her most triumphant choruses.

Madonna earned her place in the pop elite many years ago, and there are many reasons for this, which needn't be reduced into a list. Certainly though, a big reason will be the obvious - how much better her fans' lives are with her songs in them. And 65,000 of them turned up in Hyde Park to see the spectacle and dance to the hits.  Her latest album MDNA may be a weak, disengaged affair with singles that have failed to chart well, but with a back catalogue like no other, there was a huge expectation that its best moments may be reinvigorated for the live setting - or at least swarmed with familiar highs.

The biggest surprise was that the MDNA tour felt even more disconnected from the fans than the album. The joy was sapped out of even her most triumphant choruses, with Madonna being dragged around in the lower regions of the stage, hidden out of sight rather than forward-facing, presenting and communicating her music. The presence in the set list of largely untreasured album tracks such as “Candy Shop” felt disrespectful; sure, Madonna’s in control, but whoever thought this would have worked made a decision out of touch with the fans. 

It all felt like a huge gathering of fans watching a rarities DVD

“Like A Virgin” was reworked with Abel Korzeniowski’s "Evgeni’s Waltz", a piece on the soundtrack to her flop film W.E. - there was no post-song applause as the chorus drifted away incomprehensibly and a dancer pulled tighter on Madonna’s corset strings. The ABBA sample on “Hung Up” was similarly stripped, and the song was devoid of punch. “Gang Bang”, from the new album, was presented more as an extended video than something that might work for a live show of this scale. It featured Madonna contorting on a bed, laden with a gun while huge extravagant projections lit the screen with blood-like splatterings every time she pointed it at her lover. This absence of concept would have worked had the song been strong, but unfortunately it was the template for much of the set. 

While the set list was never going to please every fan, this approach lacked a consistent concept to underpin its staunch disregard of the big hitters. Largely, it all felt like a huge gathering of fans watching a rarities DVD: there was a dry lack of atmosphere and connection. An obscure rework of “Open Your Heart” reduced a cheerful song to sinister background noise.

Only untouched versions of “Vogue”, “Human Nature” and “Like a Prayer” saved this show from being an utter disaster. On “Like a Prayer” the audience danced as if it was the first time they’d connected with music. Two hours passed like a black hole, attention never capitulating even for the multi-budget set. The set-closer “Celebration” (a modest song exclusive to her greatest hits collection of the same name) said it all. Rather than bowing out on “Like a Prayer”, she chose an unfamiliar chorus which just underlined the sense of disconnection. Is an acoustic album the next sorry step?

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Madonna – review

S o Madonna's holed up in a fleapit motel, glugging shots of bourbon. She's just shot this guy, who may have been her lover, as per the lyrics of Gang Bang , one of the more arresting electronic tracks from her most recent album, MDNA . As she recovers, masked assailants come at her, one by one. The 53-year-old dispatches each of them gymnastically, like a cross between Catwoman and Uma Thurman in Kill Bill . Cool! Madonna's murder spree goes some way to even out pop's ridiculously unfair body count. In murder ballads by guys like Nick Cave or Neil Young you lose sight of how many women meet their end by their man, "down by the river".

Each time she offs a dancer, though, blood and gore spatter across the giant video screens. Is it shocking? Well, slightly, yes. The violence is pretty graphic, given the smattering of kids in attendance, and those onstage. Madonna's son Rocco, 11, is one of tonight's guest performers; he's dressed at one point as a skinhead in DMs and flopping red braces for reasons best understood by his mum's stylist. But then young Rocco is probably inured to his mother's little ways by now. He's probably seen her rub her own crotch more times than he's had hot dinners, and is perfectly blasé about the prospect of the former Mrs Ritchie shooting her way out of a confessional booth with a machine gun, as she does on the set opener, Girl Gone Wild.

It's little surprise that the MDNA tour should focus so heavily on songs from Madonna's lastest album, one that received a mixed reception, but for every Masterpiece (honk!) there are thrilling rewinds and remixes. For all the firepower on offer, the marching band treatment given to Express Yourself steals the show. Conceivably Madonna's greatest song, it features marching drummers suspended from the sky, and a snide interpolation of Lady Gaga's soundalike Born This Way. Even better is the slow, prone waltz of Like a Virgin which showcases Madonna's generous lower register and, if we are to take the walking stick she brandishes literally, seems to examine love in maturity.

Given Madonna's latterday directorly bent, it's little surprise, too, that this tour should be full of complex dramatic set pieces choreographed with the kind of athletic precision usually lent to sword-fighting scenes at the RSC. The visuals become all the more important tonight, given the sound restrictions for all gigs at Hyde Park, not least Bruce Springsteen's recent show, now infamous for cutting off Springsteen and McCartney . I could hear fine but was fortunate enough to be stood in the privileged golden triangle at the front. Over towards Marble Arch it may have been a different matter.

Certainly, there is rarely a moment tonight when the information coming from your eyeballs and eardrums isn't being pooh-poohed by your rational brain. Is the trigger-happy motel scene really giving way to some Cuban santería and tightrope-walking zombies? Are these prison guards bullying dancers in orange a nod to Guantánamo? And, after so many years wearing one, is Madonna really singing a song in Basque? She is. The Kalakan trio are Basque musicians occupying the folkish slot last filled by Gogol Bordello in 2008. Their cadences lend themselves to a nicely revamped Open Your Heart. Soon, though, we're into Sagarra Jo, a song about crushing apples which apparently also works as a statement against prejudice .

Is it all quite preposterously heterodox? Probably. Are the dancers numerous and extraordinary, though, as they always are on Madonna tours? Absolutely. Violence aside, Madonna does show the odd sign of mellowing out the carnival of Vatican-baiting irreligiosity and dry-humping that has accompanied her roadshow for nigh on 30 years. We open tonight with a Greek Orthodox church scene and a smoking censer swinging from a rope, and quite swiftly end up in a place where lascivious masked gimps have trussed another writhing masked unfortunate to a pole. We get to see her G-string and most of her bum. But this is all pretty tame by previous Ciccone standards, not least recent performances in Paris and Istanbul, where her mammary glands got some airtime.

There is, though, no let-up in the sheer physicality of Madonna's commitment as she hoofs about and is thrown around. Vocally, she gives way to backing singers and Autotune when in full flight, but tonight's show is persuasively live, complete with the odd bum note and plenty of banter.

London's Hyde Park is a strange sort of hometown show for the repatriated New Yorker, who made a valiant fist of going native here 10 years ago in the interests of her former relationship. You might argue that the trigger-happiness is quintessential Americana; that Madonna is glorifying firearms with the irrepressible brio of a born-again New Yorker showing her former Notting Hill neighbours how the west was won. Her age-old message about female control and self-affirmation remains strong. But on MDNA, album and tour, it's inflected with the bitterness of break-up. I Don't Give A lays quite bare her side of the divorce proceedings ("I swallowed my light"). Throughout, the men trying to undo her seem to be standing in for someone who is in the audience tonight: her ex-husband. You can only wonder what the little skinhead makes of it all.

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Madonna op zaterdag 7 juli in ziggo dome amsterdam.

Madonna geeft op zaterdag 7 juli een concert in Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam. De kaartverkoop start aanstaande zaterdag om 10.00 uur.

Madonna geeft een geweldig feest en iedereen is uitgenodigd. Live Nation Entertainment, de internationale promotor, heeft officieel aangekondigd dat de Madonna 2012 World Tour op 29 mei begint in Tel Aviv in Israël. De show zal diverse concertzalen, stadions en buitenlocaties aandoen, waaronder bijvoorbeeld de Plains of Abraham in Quebec. Ook zal de tour Zuid-Amerika en Australië aandoen, waar Madonna de laatste 20 jaar niet heeft opgetreden. Deze tour vindt plaats in 26 Europese steden, waaronder Londen, Parijs, Milaan, Berlijn en zo ook Amsterdam op zaterdag 7 juli. 

De eerste van de 26 shows in Noord-Amerika staat gepland op 28 augustus in Philadelphia met daarna op o.a. 6 september een optreden in het Yankee stadion in New York en op 10 oktober eentje in het Staples Center in Los Angeles. De kaartverkoop zal op 10 februari starten in Tel Aviv en Groot-Brittannië. In Noord-Amerika start de kaartverkoop op 13 februari via Ticketmaster.com en LiveNation.com. Een volledig overzicht van de Madonna World Tour 2012 vindt u onderaan dit persbericht.  De ongelooflijk succesvolle Sticky & Sweet tournee van Madonna bevestigde haar status als een van succesvolste internationale artiesten ooit. Deze historische tour bevatte onder meer hoogtepunten zoals 70.000 kaarten voor het uitverkochte concert in Werchter, België, 76.000 in Helsinki (de grootste show ooit gegeven in  Finland door een solo-artiest), 40.000 tickets in Oslo en 72.000 kaarten in één dag uitverkocht in Tallinn in Estland. Nog enkele andere internationale records waren: 650.000 tickets voor de reeks concerten in Zuid-Amerika, 72.000 voor het Dübendorf vliegveld in Zürich – het grootste publiek dat ooit tegelijkertijd bijeenkwam in Zwitserland, 75.000 verkochte tickets in Londen en vier uitverkochte concerten in Madison Square Garden in New York (60.364 kaarten).  De aankondiging van de wereldtournee van Madonna 2012 komt in een spectaculaire week, met als hoogtepunten Madonna’s optreden tijdens de pauze van de Super Bowl in de VS en haar nieuwe single, “Give Me All Your Luvin” afkomstig van haar nieuwste album MDNA, die wordt uitgebracht bij Live Nation Entertainment/Interscope Records op 26 maart. MDNA staat al op nummer één in iTunes in heel veel landen, waaronder de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Duitsland, Frankrijk, Spanje, Canada, Italië, Zweden en Nederland. De videoclip van deze single, waarin ook Nicki Minaj en MIA een hoofdrol spelen, werd eveneens uitgebracht en vertoond bij American Idol. Daarnaast vond de première plaats van de door Madonna geregisseerde film “W.E.”, die een Golden Globe won, in New York en Los Angeles en zullen andere landen en steden later deze maand volgen.  “Madonna’s status als een entertainer van wereldklasse en rasartiest behoeft geen verdere uitleg. Haar artisticiteit, talent en creatieve producties worden met elke tournee steeds groter en beter. En Madonna 2012 is hierop geen uitzondering. We zijn zeer blij dat ze weer op tournee gaat en weten dat haar fans er ook zo over denken,’ aldus Arthur Fogel, CEO Live Nation Entertainment Global Touring promotor van de Madonna tournee. Gedurende haar carrière heeft Madonna een recordaantal van 37 Top 10 hits in de Billboard Hot 100 Single Chart behaald en een recordaantal van 40 nummer 1 hits in de Billboard Dance/Club Play Songs Chart. Geen een andere artiest heeft dit kunnen overtreffen. Madonna heeft ruim 300 miljoen albums verkocht en houdt het record voor de succesvolste tournee van een solo-artiest ooit gehouden. Als vocalist en songwriter heeft Madonna zeven Grammy’s gewonnen, is ze producer en is zij opgenomen in de Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Haar laatste cd, “Hard Candy”, kwam direct binnen op nummer één in 37 landen, waaronder de VS, Groot-Brittannië, Canada, Frankrijk en Australië. De Madonna World Tour 2012 is de negende tournee van de Material Girl. Haar eerste tournee was de Virgin Tour in 1985.      Madonna’s single “Masterpiece”, die onlangs een Golden Globe won, afkomstig uit de The Weinstein Company film “W.E.”, evenals de “W.E. Music From The Soundtrack “W.E.” film, zijn digitaal uitgebracht door Interscope Records. Deze nummers zullen op 6 februari in Groot-Brittannië en op 14 februari in de VS op cd worden uitgebracht.        Icon is de officiële fanclub van Madonna. Mensen die ‘Lifetime Legacy members’ zijn van Icon, ontvangen als eerste een uitnodiging om op 7 februari een kaart of een VIP-arrangement te kopen. Geregistreerde Icon-leden worden ook als eerste in de gelegenheid gesteld om een ‘Icon Live Pass’ te kopen, waarmee zij toegang hebben tot de voorverkoop van kaarten en VIP-arrangementen, en eveneens voor een forum rondom de tournee en een exclusief tourneecadeau. Bij Madonna.com kunt u zich opgeven voor lidmaatschap. De kaartverkoop voor het concert in Amsterdam start op zaterdag 11 februari om 10.00 uur. De ticketprijzen variëren van € 45,00 tot  € 175,00. Kaarten zijn verkrijgbaar via  http://www.livenation.nl/ ,  http://www.ticketmaster.nl/  en 0900 – 300 1250 (45 cpm).  Van donderdag 9 februari 9.00 uur tot vrijdag 10 februari 9.00 uur is het al mogelijk kaarten voor dit concert te kopen via de speciale American Express presale via  www.americanexpress.nl/livenation .   VIP-arrangementen en ook premium zitplaatsen, exclusieve merchandise en andere zaken zijn ook verkrijgbaar via VIP Nation. Voor meer informatie, ga dan naar:  http://www.vipnation.com/ .   viagogo, Europe’s leading secondary ticketing company ( http://www.viagogo.co.uk/ ), has been named as the Official Premium and Secondary Ticketing Partner for Madonna’s 2012 summer tour dates across Europe.  viagogo will handle premium tickets for select shows this summer, offering fans the chance to see one of the most anticipated concert tours of the year. Fans that can no longer use their tickets will be able to resell them to other fans through viagogo’s secure online platform, and, as always, all tickets are guaranteed. 

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Zaterdag 7 juli 2012 Ziggo Dome – Amsterdam Entree: € 175, € 125, € 99, € 95, € 85 en € 45 (excl. servicekosten) Aanvang: 19.30 uur 

ABOUT LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT: Live Nation Entertainment ((NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment and eCommerce company, comprised of four market leaders: Ticketmaster.com, Live Nation Concerts, Front Line Management Group and Live Nation Network.  Ticketmaster.com is the global event ticketing leader and one of the world’s top five eCommerce sites, with over 26 million monthly unique visitors.  Live Nation Concerts produces over 20,000 shows annually for more than 2,000 artists globally.  Front Line is the world’s top artist management company, representing over 250 artists.  These businesses power Live Nation Network, the leading provider of entertainment marketing solutions, enabling over 800 advertisers to tap into the 200 million consumers Live Nation delivers annually through its live event and digital platforms. For additional information, visit  www.livenation.com/investors .      About viagogo: viagogo is a new kind of live event ticketing company that gives music, sports and theatre fans access to the best in live entertainment through a state-of-the-art online ticketing platform. viagogo’s ticket marketplace allows fans to buy and sell live event tickets in a secure environment bringing safety and transparency to the ticket resale market, which has traditionally been a murky business prone to fraud.   Through its partnerships with many of the world’s leading sports and music properties, including Chelsea FC, the Reading and Leeds Festivals, Roland-Garros, and the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals, viagogo gives fans access to hard to get tickets that are often sold-out at the box office and unavailable through other ticketing channels. viagogo is the market leader in its sector and one of the fastest growing internet companies in Europe, with local language websites in over 26 countries.

MADONNA 2012 WORLD TOUR ITINERARY EUROPE 29-May  Tel Aviv, Israel   Ramat Gam Stadium  On Sale Feb. 10  3-Jun  Abu Dhabi   Yas Arena   On Sale Feb. 27 7-Jun  Istanbul, Turkey   Turk Telecom Arena  On sale soon 11-Jun  Zagreb, Croatia   Maksimir Stadium   On Sale Feb. 17 14-Jun  Milan, Italy   Stadio San Siro   On Sale Feb. 13 16-Jun  Florence, Italy   Stadio Franchi   On Sale Feb. 13  20-Jun  Barcelona, Spain   Palau Sant Jordi    On Sale Feb. 16  24-Jun  Coimbra, Portugal  Estadio Cidade de Coimbra On Sale Feb. 11 28-Jun  Berlin, Germany   O2 Arena   On Sale Feb. 13

2-Jul  Copenhagen, Denmark  Parken Stadium   On Sale Feb. 13  4-Jul  Gothenburg, Sweden  Ullevi Stadium   On Sale Feb. 17 7-Jul  Amsterdam,The Netherlands Ziggo Dome   On Sale Feb. 11 12-Jul  Brussels, Belgium  Stade Roi-Baudouin  On Sale Feb. 17 14-Jul  Paris, France   Stade De France   On Sale Feb. 14 17-Jul  London, UK   Hyde Park   On Sale Feb. 10   21-Jul  Edinburgh, UK   Murrayfield Stadium  On Sale Feb. 10  24-Jul  Dublin, Ireland   Aviva Stadium   On Sale Feb. 17 29-Jul  Vienna, Austria   Ernst-Happel-Stadion  On Sale Feb. 24

1-Aug  Warsaw, Poland   National Stadium   On Sale Feb. 17 7-Aug  Moscow, Russia   Olimpiski Arena   On sale soon.   8-Aug  St. Petersburg, Russia  SKK Arena   On sale soon 12-Aug  Helsinki, Finland   Olympic Stadium   On Sale Feb. 14 15-Aug  Oslo, Norway   Telenor Arena   On Sale Feb. 20 18-Aug  Zurich, Switzerland  Stadion Letzigrund   On Sale Feb. 24 21-Aug  Nice, France   Stade Charles-Erhmann  On Sale Feb. 14 NORTH AMERICA 28-Aug  Philadelphia, PA   Wells Fargo Center  On Sale Feb. 13   30-Aug  Montreal, QC   Bell Centre   On Sale Feb. 18

1-Sep  Quebec City, QC   Plains of Abraham Site  On Sale Feb. 17 4-Sep  Boston, MA   TD Garden   On Sale Feb. 13 6-Sep  New York, NY   Yankee Stadium   On Sale Feb. 13 10-Sep  Ottawa, ON   Scotiabank Place   On Sale Feb. 13 12-Sep  Toronto, ON   Air Canada Centre  On Sale Feb. 13 15-Sep  Atlantic City, NJ   Boardwalk Hall   On Sale Feb. 27 19-Sep  Chicago, IL   United Center   On Sale Feb. 13 23-Sep  Washington, D.C.   Verizon Center   On Sale Feb. 13 29-Sep  Vancouver, BC   Rogers Arena   On Sale Feb. 13

2-Oct  Seattle, WA   Key Arena   On Sale Feb. 13 6-Oct  San Jose, CA   HP Pavilion   On Sale Feb. 13 10-Oct  Los Angeles, CA   Staples Center   On Sale Feb. 13 13-Oct  Las Vegas, NV   MGM Grand   On Sale Feb. 27 16-Oct  Phoenix, AZ   US Airways Center  On Sale Feb. 27 20-Oct  Dallas, TX   American Airlines Center  On Sale Feb. 27 24-Oct  Houston, TX   Toyota Center   On Sale Feb. 27 27-Oct  New Orleans, LA   New Orleans Arena  On Sale Mar. 5 30-Oct  Kansas City, MO   print Center   On Sale Mar. 5

1-Nov  St. Louis, MO   Scottrade Center   On Sale Mar. 5 3-Nov  St. Paul, MN   Xcel Energy Center  On Sale Feb. 27 10-Nov  Cleveland, OH   Quicken Loans Arena  On Sale Mar. 5 15-Nov  Charlotte, NC   Time Warner Cable Arena  On Sale Mar. 5 17-Nov  Atlanta, GA   Philips Arena   On Sale Mar. 5 Tbc  Miami, FL   To Be confirmed   On sale soon The tour will also visit South American and Australia.  Additional cities and venues to be announced. Itinerary subject to change.

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31-May Tel Aviv, Israel Ramat Gam Stadium 03-Jun Abu Dhabi Yas Arena 04-Jun Abu Dhabi Yas Arena 07-Jun Istanbul, Turkey Turk Telecom Arena 11-Jun Zagreb, Croatia Maksimir Stadium 12-Jun Rome, Italy Stadio Olimpico 14-Jun Milan, Italy Stadio San Siro 16-Jun Florence, Italy Stadio Franchi 20-Jun Barcelona, Spain Palau Sant Jordi 21-Jun Barcelona, Spain Palau Sant Jordi 24-Jun Coimbra, Portugal Estadio Cidade de Coimbra 28-Jun Berlin, Germany O2 Arena 30-Jun Berlin, Germany O2 Arena 02-Jul Copenhagen, Denmark Parken Stadium 04-Jul Gothenburg, Sweden Ullevi Stadium 07-Jul Amsterdam, Netherlands Ziggo Dome 08-Jul Amsterdam, Netherlands Ziggo Dome 10-Jul Kőln, Germany LANXESS Arena 12-Jul Brussels, Belgium Stade Roi-Baudouin 14-Jul Paris, France Stade De France 17-Jul London, UK Hyde Park 19-Jul Birmingham,UK NIA 21-Jul Edinburgh, UK Murrayfield Stadium 24-Jul Dublin, Ireland Aviva Stadium 26-Jul Paris, France ‘L Olympia Theatre 29-Jul Vienna, Austria Ernst-Happel-Stadion 01-Aug Warsaw, Poland National Stadium 04-Aug Kiev, Ukraine Olympic Stadium 07-Aug Moscow, Russia Olimpiski Arena 09-Aug St. Petersburg RussiaSKK Arena 12-Aug Helsinki, Finland Olympic Stadium 15-Aug Oslo, Norway Telenor Arena 18-Aug Zurich, Switzerland Stadion Letzigrund 15-Aug Nice, France Stade Charles-Erhmann

NORTH AMERICA 28-Aug Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center 30-Aug Montreal, QC Bell Centre 01-Sep Quebec City, QC Plains of Abraham Site 04-Sep Boston, MA MATD Garden 06-Sep New York, NY NY Yankee Stadium 08-Sep New York, NY NY Yankee Stadium 10-Sep Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place 12-Sep Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre 13-Sep Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre 15-Sep Atlantic City, NJ Boardwalk Hall 19-Sep Chicago, IL United Center 20-Sep Chicago, IL United Center 23-Sep Washington,D.C. Verizon Center 24-Sep Washington,D.C. Verizon Center 29-Sep Vancouver,BC Rogers Arena 30-Sep Vancouver,BC Rogers Arena 02-Oct Seattle, WA Key Arena 03-Oct Seattle, WA Key Arena 06-Oct San Jose, CA HP Pavilion 07-Oct San Jose, CA HP Pavilion 10-Oct Los Angeles, CA Staples Center 11-Oct Los Angeles, CA Staples Center 13-Oct Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand 14-Oct Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand 16-Oct Phoenix, AZ US Airways Center 18-Oct Denver, AZ Pepsi Center 20-Oct Dallas, TX American Airlines Center 21-Oct Dallas, TX American Airlines Center 24-Oct Houston, TX Toyota Center 25-Oct Houston, TX Toyota Center 27-Oct New Orleans, LA New Orleans Arena 30-Oct Kansas City, MO Sprint Center 01-Nov St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center 03-Nov St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center 04-Nov St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center 06-Nov Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center 08-Nov Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena 10-Nov Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena 12-Nov New York,NY Madison Square Garden 13-Nov New York,NY Madison Square Garden 15-Nov Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena 17-Nov Atlanta, GA Philips Arena 19-Nov Miami, FL American Airlines Arena 20-Nov Miami, FL American Airlines Arena

SOUTH AMERICA 24-Nov Mexico City, MX Foro Sol 25-Nov Mexico City, MX Foro Sol 28-Nov Medellin,CO Estadio Atanasio Girardot 29-Nov Medellin,CO Estadio Atanasio Girardot 01-Dec Rio De Janeiro,BR Parque Dos Atletas 04-Dec Sao Paulo,BR Estadio Do Morumbi 05-Dec Sao Paulo,BR Estadio Do Morumbi 09-Dec Porto Alegre,BR Estadio Olimpico 13-Dec Buenos Aires,AR Estadio River Plater 15-Dec Buenos Aires,AR Estadio River Plater 19-Dec Santiago,CL Estadio Nacional 22-Dec Cordoba,AR Estadio Chateau Carreras

• The MDNA Tour official premiere date in Tel Aviv was cancelled, the second planned show in Tel Aviv was branded ‘concert of peace’
• It was extremely humid in Abu Dhabi, causing for M to start the show a little later than planned and making it difficult for everyone to perform
• In Istanbul Madonna surprised the audience by flashing her nipple, leading to a media frenzy. She repeated the act in Stade de France during her show in Paris
• Madonna worked with a new crew for this tour, namely from France
• The show in Zagreb on June 11 was cancelled
• During MDNA in Berlin Madonna cried during Like a Virgin, leading to media speculation, was she thinking about Guy? Was it something different?
• During her stay in Amsterdam Madonna booked the largest theater in the Dutch cinema Tuschinksi to view the English subtitled succes film Intouchables with her crew. She also visited the Anne Frank house and saw Amsterdam by boat. Madonna described her Amsterdam stay as very relaxing
• The Amsterdam ArenA was originally scheduled for the MDNA Tour, however dance event Sensation was booked on the same day (July 7) and they did not want to reschedule. MDNA was moved to the Ziggo Dome, giving us not one but two shows instead
• Amsterdam was the first stop where most crew members invited family to fly in and attend the show in the Golden Triangle
• While in Amsterdam one of Madonna’s shoes needed repair, an expert in Buitenveldert Amsterdam was contacted and he made sure Madonna was able to move her feet on stage that night
• During the soundcheck in Cologne, fans got to hear a rehearsal of Je T’aime (moi non plus) for the first time (later performed at her Olympia gig in Paris)
• Madonna received a lot of negative attention from the start of the tour because of using a Marine Le Pen image with a Swastika on her forehead in the Nobody Knows Me video. Madonna did not remove the sign for the Paris show as requested
• The show in Paris in Stade de France was professionally filmed, some of it is used in the montage for the official MDNA Tour DVD
• In London Madonna performed in Hyde Park with a strict curfew, so she started in sunlight
• Some technical difficulties in Birmingham, no motel room in Gang Bang, video screens that did not close in Justify My Love (seeing the start of vogue) and a late entrance to I’m Addicted
• Madonna announced a special club show in Olympia in Paris in the middle of the tour. This was going to be filmed for live broadcasting through internet. Show started with Turn Up The Radio and ended with the specially rehearsed Beautiful Killer and Je T’aime. Marine Le Pen supporters were there with pre-printed banners, booing Madonna after the show ended and throwing bottles on stage. Media picked this up but stated it were her fans that were disappointed in the length of the show, not mentioning the Marine Le Pen supporters. Madonna issued a statement on this and thankfully media reported it
• In Russia Madonna was welcomed with a lot of controversy, she was warned that if she would stick up for gay rights and Pussy Riot, she was going to be charged. US embassy even issued a warning due to serious threats issued by Russians. However Madonna still spoke out for gay rights and Pussy Riot. She was charged but the case was later dismissed
• In Nice the swastika on Marine Le Pen’s face was removed with a question mark (there had been threats prior to the show)
• Once the tour hit the USA there were no changes made to the show, halfway however ‘Love Spent’ was added with sometimes Holiday thrown in after Open Your Heart. Later Give it 2 Me was mashed up with Celebration
• Madonna followed and stayed true to her promise and stripped to her bodystocking after Obama won the elections
• She decided to keep the striptease in her show and used it to collect money for the hurricane Sandy victims
• During the last show in Madison Square Garden in New York, Madonna brought along a surprise! After Open Your Heart she suddenly performed Give it 2 Me and halfway performer Psy came on stage and performed a mash up with Gangnam Style. After which they sang ‘Music’ together
• It was announced during the shows in New York that Miami was going to be filmed for official DVD release
• First show in Dallas was cancelled as Madonna suffered from a throat infection
• In Buenos Aires Madonna performed ‘Don’t Cry For Me Argentina’ instead of ‘Like a Virgin’
• In Santiago Madonna was really ill with bronchitis, she asked the audience to stop smoking leading to another scandal in the media. The show was almost cancelled due to her illness but as she did not want to disappoint her fans she performed anyway starting the show with ‘Express Yourself’, completely deleting the first section from the show
• During the very last show Cordoba the power went out during Open Your Heart this lasted a full hour before they could continue with ‘Vogue’
• The MDNA Tour was officially the most successful tour of 2012
• Lady Gaga had to ‘borrow’ Madonna’s outdoor stage for her Born This Way Ball

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Madonna Is Only Woman to Achieve This Boxscore Feat as The Celebration Tour Wraps

Madonna played the final shows of The Celebration Tour, closing her six-month trek with $225.4 million and 1.1 million tickets sold over 80 shows, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore.

The Celebration Tour is Madonna's sixth trek to gross more than $100 million. The only other acts to achieve this are the Eagles , The Rolling Stones , Bruce Springsteen and U2 , making her the sole woman in this elite group.

The Queen of Pop first announced The Celebration Tour in January 2023, with a planned start date in July of last year. But a medical emergency delayed the North American leg by five months, instead starting in Europe in October. There, she played 27 shows in 10 countries, finishing with $77.5 million and 429,000 tickets.

By year's end, Madonna played three shows in Brooklyn and two in Washington, D.C., before resuming the North American leg with 42 more shows from January through April. In the U.S. and Canada, she earned $133.1 million and sold 616,000 tickets, sending the tour's total figures beyond $200 million and 1 million tickets.

Finally, Madonna went to Latin America for the first time since 2016, as part of the Rebel Heart Tour. Five shows at Mexico City's Palacio de los Deportes grossed $14.8 million and sold 82,400 tickets.

In all, The Celebration Tour's $225 million finish marks Madonna's highest-grossing tour in over a decade. While in Europe, it surpassed her theater experiment on the Madame X Tour ($51.5 million in 2019-20). And during her North American leg, she partied past the Rebel Heart Tour's $169.8 million from 2015-16.

Madonna's recent high dates back to 2012's MDNA Tour, which grossed $305.2 million and sold 2.2 million tickets. That trek played many of the same American arenas as The Celebration Tour, but took her to Europe's outsized outdoor stadiums, plus a lengthier stadium run throughout Latin America. Her biggest tour ever was the one before that, earning $407.7 million from 3.5 million tickets on the Sticky & Sweet Tour (2008-09).

The apples-to-apples improvement over the Rebel Heart Tour – Madonna's most recent all-arena run – combines an uptick in ticket prices ($162.42 –> $199.93) with a 12% increase in average per-show attendance count (12,750 –> 14,274).

That average attendance is missing an obvious asterisk. After playing her final show in Mexico City, Madonna staged a free concert at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, marking her first stop in the city since a Dec. 2, 2012, performance on the MDNA Tour. The show's gargantuan success does not factor into her official Boxscore results because it was a free event, but it's plenty worth noting that she drew 1.6 million people – roughly 40% more than the combined attendance of her entire tour. According to concert promoter Live Nation, it's the largest audience ever for a stand-alone concert by any artist in history.

The Celebration Tour pushes Madonna's reported career total to $1.6 billion and – without accounting for the Brazil show – 12.8 million tickets.

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More than a million music fans gathered at Brazil’s iconic Copacabana beach to prove their love to Madonna over the weekend.

The “Get into the Groove” and “Vogue” pop diva concluded her career-spanning Celebration Tour with a bang over the weekend, treating fans in Rio de Janeiro to a free beach concert on Saturday. “This really happened,” the singer reminisced in an Instagram video shared Sunday.

The Instagram clip shows an aerial view of attendees assembling on the sandy Brazilian strip, which stretches more than 2 miles along the coast. While some fans danced on the beach, others hosted house parties in nearby beachfront apartments and hotels, the Associated Press reported.

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“This place is magic,” the 65-year-old singing icon said during her show, which also featured appearances from Brazilian artists Anitta and Pabllo Vittar.

An estimated 1.6 million people gathered for Madonna’s Celebration Tour finale, Brazilian outlet G1 reported, citing Rio City Hall’s tourism agency. The event was also broadcast on Brazilian network TV Globo. Even before a million-plus fans descended on Copacabana over the weekend, Madonna announced in late March that her send-off would be her “biggest gig yet.”

“The show will be free of charge as a thank you to her fans for celebrating more than four decades of her music over the course of the epic global run of the tour,” her website said.

Saturday’s concert broke Madge’s personal attendance record — 130,000 fans at Paris’ Parc des Sceaux in 1987 — by more than tenfold. Madonna also bested the record previously held by the Rolling Stones’ 2006 Copacabana concert , which drew 1.5 million people.

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” @Madonna makes history in Rio tonight marking the largest ever standalone concert for any artist, with over 1.6 million fans attending as she closes The Celebration Tour,” Live Nation announced on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday.

Madonna’s Celebration Tour launched in October, months after she was hospitalized for a bacterial infection last June. The Grammy winner brought her headline-generating tour to Inglewood’s Kia Forum for several nights in March.

Times critic Mikael Wood wrote that the singer’s Celebration Tour “ was curiously short on joy. ”

“A pop concert is a theater of personality and craft, not one of plot or character development,” he added. “But a narrative this messy needed more razzle-dazzle.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Alexandra Del Rosario is an entertainment reporter on the Los Angeles Times Fast Break Desk. Before The Times, she was a television reporter at Deadline Hollywood, where she first served as an associate editor. She has written about a wide range of topics including TV ratings, casting and development, video games and AAPI representation. Del Rosario is a UCLA graduate and also worked at the Hollywood Reporter and TheWrap.

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