Photo above: An aerial view of Madonna’s final Celebration Tour stop in Rio on May 4, 2024 (credit: Bruna Prado/AP-SIPA)
“Madonna is a creature of comfort and habit, so the first and foremost challenge of mixing her sound is to recreate her experience exactly, night to night, venue to venue, on every stage. That’s where L-Acoustics made all the difference,” shares Madonna’s FOH engineer, Burton Ishmael. He’s been mixing for the star from October 14, 2023, at the O2 Arena in London to the massive, record-breaking show on the beach in Rio de Janeiro on May 4, 2024, when an estimated 1.6 million fans took in what Pollstar described as “the largest audience ever assembled for a standalone concert.”
Madonna’s beach concert for 1.6 million fans in Rio was a joint effort between Gabisom, Eighth Day Sound, L-Acoustics, and many others (credit: Alex Soto)
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