Lady Gaga He shuddered his fans last Saturday, May 3 with his Gothic opera show, a true presentation full of theatricality and exuberance that characterizes it in each of his concerts.
The show was carried out in the Copacabana Beachin Janeiro RiverBrazil. It is estimated that 2.1 million people attended the concert, according to the City Hall.
However, the presentation was not free of incidents. Brazil’s authorities announced this Sunday that they thwarted a bomb attack during the singer’s concert.
The Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro reported in its X account that together with the Ministry of Justice, “it prevented a bomb attack that would occur in the Lady Gaga show in Copacabana.”
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Detentions after the Lady Gaga concert
In this case, the “responsible for the plan” and a teenager is detained. The police carried out in several cities in the state of Rio de Janeiro, as well as in São Paulo, Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso.
According to the authorities, those involved recruited participants to promote attacks with the use of Molotov explosives and cocktails. For the Lady Gaga concert on Saturday, the authorities deployed an impressive security device, with more than 5,000 agents, drones and cameras with facial recognition.
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– Civil Policy RJ (@Pcerj) May 4, 2025
How was the concert?
The free concert, The most massive in the artist’s careerhe consecrated his triumphal return to Brazil after thirteen years of absence.
After the acclaimed performances in Coachella and Mexico, in April, the winner of 14 Grammy Awards offered in River a show loaded with the chaotic energy of Mayhemhis most recent album, with which he tells the fight with his alter egos until his rebirth.
Dressed in a vibrant red suit, on a Victorian structure and in the middle of a gigantic stage of 1,260 square meters that evoked a Greek theater, the pop superstar inaugurated the show interpreting Bloody Mary.
The operatic atmosphere with which the presentation began quickly gave way to the pop rhythm with Abradacabra.
As by magic, dancers appeared until that moment hidden under the artist’s skirt to give life to energetic choreographies, who unleashed the frenzy of their Little Monsters.
“Brasiiiiiiiiiil, I missed you a lot!” He exclaimed in English.
But the moment he led to his fans was shortly after interpreting Wishwhen he made a parenthesis to thank the attendees.
From an elevated box, He extended the Brazilian flag and read a message that was translated into simultaneous, in which he said he felt “honest”, “luck” and “proud” of acting again in the country: “Thank you for waiting for me for more than ten years,” said nostalgic.
The greatest emotion, however, was lived towards the end of the concert, when Gaga interpreted the most anticipated successes for his little monsters. After an intimate Shallow “Oscar’s gain for best original song,” to the piano, Bad Romance He made attendees vibrate.