Madonna’s
Madame X Tour began last night. Her previous world tours (
Who’s That Girl,
Blond Ambition,
The Girlie Show,
Drowned World,
Reinvention,
Confessions,
Sticky and Sweet,
MDNA, and
Rebel Heart) were all held in stadiums or arenas, though
Madame X is a theatre tour. This makes each concert a far more intimate experience, and Madonna interacted with the audience throughout last night’s show. She has experimented with smaller-scale performances before: she debuted her
Tears of a Clown cabaret show in
Melbourne and
Miami in 2016, and played one night at the Paris Olympia during
The MDNA Tour in 2012.
The new tour includes live performances of almost the entire
Madame X album (
Medellín,
Dark Ballet,
God Control,
Future,
Batuka,
Killers Who Are Partying,
Crave,
Crazy,
Come Alive,
I Don't Search I Find, and
Extreme Occident) and a handful of classics (
Human Nature, an a cappella
Express Yourself,
Vogue,
Papa Don’t Preach,
American Life,
La Isla Bonita,
Frozen, and
Like a Prayer). There are two cover versions (
Fado Pechincha and
Sodade), and the encore is
I Rise.
