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If you’re a Madonna superfan, you may want to know how to watch Madonna’s “Madame X” film online for free to see her as her secret agent alter ego.

Madonna ‘s “Madame X” concept film chronicles her worldwide Madame X Tour, which ran for 75 dates from 2019 to 2020. The film was shot at Madonna’s Madame X Tour stops in Lisbon, Portugal in 2020. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporte r in September 2021, Madonna explained why she decided to film her 11th concert tour for her fans.  “There was nothing between me and the crowd, and that was an incredible experience,” she said. “I needed to document that — the process, the rehearsals, the show itself, what was in my mind, what inspires certain songs. It’s a different show, it’s a different time in my life.”

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Nuno Xico, who directed the documentary alongside Sasha Kasiuha, also explained that concept film is more than just a concert, with songs about gun control, minorities, women and the LGBTQIA+ community. “If you distill the songs, those themes are already there, so to bring those themes [to the film] was easy,” Xico said. “Madonna is political.” As for what it was like to work with Madonna herself, Xico called the collaboration “intense” and “exciting.” “It’s great. You get to work with someone who has a unique point of view and a unique experience,” Xico said. “It’s really inspiring, honestly. We’re definitely lucky to be able to work with someone like Madonna.”

Madonna —who told THR that “artists are here to disturb the peace”—described her work ethic as leaving “no stone unturned” and explained that “Madame X” is essentially a story of her life. “Pay attention to detail, to leave no stone unturned, to keep pushing until you get to what you feel is the best possible,” she said.. “Madame X … is me telling a story about my life.”

What is Madonna “Madame X” about?

“Madame X” is a documentary concert film that chronicles Madonna’s Madame X Tour, which consisted of 75 dates across the world and ran from September 2019 in New York City to March 2020 in Paris. The concept film—which supports Madonna’s 14th studio album, Madame X —was filmed in 2020 at Madonna’s Madame X Tour stops in Lisbon, Portugal. The movie—first premiered at the Paradise Club on top of the Times Square Edition hotel in New York City—sees Madonna take on the persona of Madame X, a secret agent who travels around the world as she fights for freedom. To celebrate the release of “Madame X”, which is co-directed by Nuno Xico and Sasha Kasiuha, Madonna also released a limited-edition merch collection that consists of hoodies, matching sets and more items.

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Madonna Red “Madame X” T-Shirt

When does Madonna “Madame X” come out?

Madonna “Madame X” is available to stream on Paramount Plus on Friday, October 7, 2021.

How to watch Madonna “Madame X” online for free

So how can one watch Madonna “Madame X” online for free ? Lucky for you, Paramount Plus offers a free trial, which is more than enough time to stream Madonna “Madame X” at no cost. Read on for how to sign up for Paramount Plus’ free trial and what else comes with it.

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The best way to watch Madonna’s “Madame X” film online for free is with Paramount Plus’ seven-day free trial , which is more than enough time to watch “Madame X” at no cost. Along with “Madame X,” Paramount Plus, CBS’ exclusive streaming service, 30,000 episodes, 2,500 movies and 30-plus original series like The Good Fight and the iCarly reboot. After the trial ends, users can choose to subscribe for $4.99 per month for Paramount Plus’ ad-supported plan and $9.99 per month for its ad-free plan. Students also receive a 25 percent discount , which costs them $3.74 per month for the ad-supported plan and or $7.49 per month for the ad-free plan. Read on how for how to sign up for Paramount Plus’ seven-day free trial.

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If you’ve already used your Paramount Plus free trial, fans can also watch Madonna’s “Madame X” film online for free with Paramount Plus’ seven-day free trial on Amazon Prime Video. To score the free trial, users need to first sign up for Amazon Prime’s 30-day free trial, which comes with the same benefits of Amazon Prime, such as Prime Music and Prime Delivery (a.k.a. free two-day shipping, free same-day shipping, free release-date delivery and free no-rush shipping.) after the Paramount Plus free trial ends, users can choose to subscribe for $5.99 per month for its Limited Commercials ad-supported plan or $9l99 per month for its no-ads Premium plan  Read on for how to sign up for Paramount Plus’ free trial with Amazon Prime.

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Madonna’s experimental record “Madame X,” creatively inspired by her life in Portugal, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart but didn’t produce any hits.

Nor did her creation of the eyepatch-wearing secret agent Madame X gain much pop-culture traction outside of her devoted fan base.

But at this stage in her extraordinary career, Madonna is – and should be – doing whatever she damn well wants.

Her film “Madame X,” which debuts Friday on Paramount+ , is artistically impressive but often confounding – an apt reflection of the music titan these days.

Directed by Ricardo Gomes and SKNX as the visual companion to her 14th studio album released in 2019, the film – and Madonna herself – are determined to make not just social statements but cinematic ones as well.

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Living in Lisbon since 2017 to support son David’s soccer interests, Madonna chose the city as the site of the concert recording in January 2020. 

Her guests in the film are sweet and surprising – daughter Estere is part of a group singalong of “Express Yourself,” son David escorts her offstage to a chair in the crowd next to … Dave Chappelle – and the presence of   all illuminate Madonna at her most unguarded.

Bookended by the spirit of James Baldwin and his quote that artists exist to disturb the peace, the show also presents Madonna telling the audience more than once during the production, “Don’t forget, none of this is real.”

Maybe so, but it is compelling. A few highlights:

Madonna's impressive handstand 

Though only a moderate chart hit in 1994, the gently thumping “Human Nature” is the first immediately recognizable song in the set. Fans respond rapturously, but their biggest cheers are saved for Madonna’s acrobatic move – a handstand inside a circular cutout that would be impressive at any age, never mind at 61, her age when the show filmed.

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The advantages of the intimate environment Madonna cultivated throughout the tour – her first small-venue dates since 1985 –   are showcased in her frequent interactions with the crowd. “I love to irritate people,” she tells fans with a wicked grin.

Her Polaroid selfies taken onstage (and air-dried in a most Madonna method), which she auctioned off to fans to benefit her charity Raising Malawi, were an exceptional keepsake, since smartphones were prohibited at her shows.

New 'Life' for an old song

The much-maligned “American Life,” the title track of Madonna’s 2003 album, plays much better live. The midsong rap, which critics eviscerated when the album arrived, is delivered with fiery urgency as it seesaws with her high-voiced questioning: “Do I have to change my name? Am I gonna be a star?”

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The ornate staging is ideally used during “Crazy” (Madonna stands atop a baby grand piano, warding off handsy dancers) and the double punch of “La Isla Bonita” and “Medellín.” Her “True Blue” gem from 1986 ( originally written for, and rejected by, Michael Jackson ) coupled with the “Madame X” track – which features Colombian duet partner Maluma , shown on video during the show – are a sensuous melding of Latin sensibilities. Even Madonna’s theatrical tapping at a typewriter morphs into the backbeat of “Medellín,” which employs a significant chunk of the nearly 50-person cast to conga across the stage.

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In a visually stunning creation, Madonna sings “Frozen,” in all its haunted beauty, while inserted in a video of her oldest daughter, Lourdes “Lola” Leon, whose lithe dance moves prove her strong genes. The song is brushed with an additional percussive thrust, which only augments its exquisiteness.

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Toward the end of the show, Madonna is joined by a choir, perfectly aligned on the steps in the shape of an “X” behind her, to perform “Like a Prayer.” It’s the closest to the original of any non-“Madame X” songs buffed and tweaked for this new era, and Madonna continues to revel in the anthem’s religious overtones as she stands garbed in a black cassock adorned with crosses. The uplift provided by the song has not diminished with age.

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Directed by Ricardo Gomes and SKNX, ‘Madame X’ will exclusively stream on Paramount Plus from Friday, October 8.

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A concert documentary filmed last year during the European leg of Madonna’s ‘Madame X’ Tour is coming to Paramount Plus.

Directed by Ricardo Gomes and SKNX, ‘Madame X’ will exclusively stream on Paramount Plus from Friday, October 8 for subscribers in North America, Latin America, Australia, and the Nordics . Fans outside of those territories can tune in on MTV.

“Sharing my vision with global audiences has been profoundly meaningful to me,” the Queen of Pop said in a statement issued early Thursday (July 15).

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“The opportunity to bring its message and the incandescent artistry of all involved to an even wider audience comes at a time when music is so deeply needed to remind us of the sacred bond of our shared humanity.”

Created by MTV Entertainment Studios, the doc captures all the highlights from Madonna’s January 2020 stop in Lisbon, part of a trans-Atlantic ‘Madame X’ jaunt in support of her Billboard 200 chart leader of the same time.

Madonna has a strong connection with the capital of Portugal. She moved there for her son’s soccer aspirations, and was inspired by the music she was exposed to there: Fado, morna, salsa and more.

“Madonna is undoubtedly the world’s biggest superstar, never ceasing to push boundaries and shape the pop culture landscape,” said Bruce Gillmer, chief content officer, Music, Paramount Plus and President of Music, Music Talent, Programming & Events, ViacomCBS.

The pop veteran and MTV together “have an incredibly storied history and we are thrilled to continue to amplify our partnership globally,” he continued.

The seven-time Grammy Award-winner sent her followers into a frenzy last week when she teased the doc and revealed it would arrive this October on Paramount+.

Madame X debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in June 2019 , for her ninth leader in the U.S.

The ‘Madame X’ trek was an eventful one, with Madonna scrapping several dates due to a recurring knee injury, and the itinerary was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Madonna Announces Madame X Concert Documentary: Watch the Trailer

The film — which documents Madonna's Madame X tour — will be available for streaming Oct. 8 on Paramount+

Madonna will soon share her adventures as her alter-ego Madame X.

On Thursday, the queen of pop, 62, announced that her concert documentary Madame X will begin streaming on Paramount+ on Oct. 8.

The film will document her last world tour , an intimate, theatrical outing on which she performed her hits, in addition to tracks off her genre-spanning 14th album Madame X , released in 2019.

In a statement, the artist said: "Sharing my vision with global audiences has been profoundly meaningful to me. The opportunity to bring its message and the incandescent artistry of all involved to an even wider audience comes at a time when music is so deeply needed to remind us of the sacred bond of our shared humanity."

Madonna filmed the documentary in Lisbon, Portugal. Madonna and her children — David Banda, 15, Mercy James, 15, and 8-year-old twins Estere and Stella — relocated to the coastal city in 2017 so David could play soccer there. The Grammy winner has said the local culture inspired Madame X .

During the tour, the pop icon's eldest daughter Lourdes Leon, 24, appeared dancing in a video projection while Madonna performed her hit "Frozen," and her younger daughters would join her onstage for a singalong to "Express Yourself."

"Madame ❌ is finally ready to disturb the Peace," Madonna teased in an Instagram post Wednesday, sharing the trailer (watch above).

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Inside the Premiere for Madonna’s New Concert Documentary Madame X

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It was once said that a queen is never late—everyone else is simply early. Never was that more true than Thursday night at The Edition Hotel‘s Paradise Club in Times Square, where Madonna presented an intimate screening of her new concert documentary film,  Madame X . A slew of New York’s finest—including Drew Barrymore, Jeremy O. Harris, and Antoni Porowski—turned out to toast the Queen of Pop until it seemed like everyone in town was there except the host herself.

Arriving fashionably late in a black lace bustier, a gold-plated necklace that declared “Trust No Bitch,” and a diamond tiara that read “Fuck You,” Madonna certainly made an impression once she finally made her grand entrance. The 63-year old superstar has been fine-tuning the edit for her new documentary since the inception of the  Madame X Tour , which launched during the fall of 2019 before ending abruptly in March 2020 due to the ongoing pandemic. Filmed over the course of her sold-out, 16-night run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the intimate tour marked Madonna’s first time performing at smaller theatre venues since her debut concert tour in 1985. Since then, she’s almost exclusively played arenas and sold-out stadiums, with the  Madame X  shows allowing the pop icon the rare opportunity to reconnect with her fanbase on a more personal level.

“Every night on the  Madame X Tour , I did a show with just a couple thousand people, which is really quite small for me,” Madonna told  Vogue . “I could interact with the audience, and no one had phones, so people couldn’t take pictures—there was nothing between me and those crowds.”

The vibe at the premiere event was similarly intimate, with a room consisting of Madonna’s friends and family, including sons Rocco Ritchie and David Banda. She even paused her opening remarks to go embrace a group of background dancers she spotted in the audience (“Oh hey, those are my friends!”). Ketel One’s Vodka Martini Bar–featuring Madame X-inspired cocktails–kept the party going long after the screening ended. And with Madame X  set to stream on Paramount+ starting October 8, fans everywhere will get the chance to relive one of the most thrilling artistic chapters in Madonna’s career yet.

“This tour was one of the most incredible experiences of my life, so I needed to document that: the process, the rehearsals, the show itself, what was going on in my mind,” she elaborated. “It’s different from any other concert documentary I’ve done before because it’s a different show and represents a different time in my life. But don’t take my word for it; you’ll see for yourself soon enough.”

What does Madonna hope fans take away from the Madame X documentary? “That artists are here to disturb the peace, wake people up, and make them think." 

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Madonna has released the Madame X Tour live album titled “Madame X – Music From the Theater Xperience (Live).”

The full tracklist…

Intro God Control Dark Ballet Human Nature Vogue I Don’t Search, I Find American Life Batuka Fado Pechincha (feat. Gaspar Varela) Killers Who Are Partying Crazy Welcome To My Fado Club Extreme Occident Breathwork Medellin Frozen Come Alive Future Like A Prayer I Rise Note: Live at the Coliseu dos Recreios, Lisbon, Portugal, 1/12-23/2020

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Madonna   is here to disturb the peace.

The consummate disruptor and pop music icon is at the center of the new Paramount+ documentary  Madame X,  premiering on Friday, Oct. 8, centered on the  Grammy winner 's fourteenth studio album and Madame X tour in 2019. 

"Artists are here to disturb the peace," the teaser trailer opens as Madonna is revealed on-stage in Lisbon, Portugal.

According to a press statement, the documentary   will "take viewers on a journey as compelling and audacious as Madonna's fearless persona Madame X, a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom, and bringing light to dark places." 

Madame X  features 48 on-stage performers including Madonna's  children , international musicians and dancers and the all-female orchestra,  Orquestra Batukadeiras . Madonna embarks on an equally epic adventure in a cinematic stage play that pairs her power ballads with scenes of  democratic unrest ,  police brutality  and other political issues. As the release states, the concert remains a "love letter to multiculturalism" inspired by Lisbon. 

"Sharing my vision with global audiences has been profoundly meaningful to me," Madonna stated. "The opportunity to bring its message and the incandescent artistry of all involved to an even wider audience comes at a time when music is so deeply needed to remind us of the sacred bond of our shared humanity." 

The Madame X Tour was created and directed by a team led by Madonna, including  Jamie King  as creative producer and  Megan Lawson  as co-director and lead choreographer. Additional creative contribution and choreography by  Damien Jalet , costumes designed by  Eyob Yohannes , musical direction by  Kevin Antunes  and set design by  Ric Lipson  for Stufish Entertainment Architects.

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Bruce Gillmer , Chief Content Officer of Music at Paramount+ and President of Music at ViacomCBS, explained, "Madonna is undoubtedly the world's biggest superstar, never ceasing to push boundaries and shape the pop culture landscape. She and MTV together have an incredibly storied history and we are thrilled to continue to amplify our partnership." 

Madame X  is directed by  Ricardo Gomes  and  SKNX , in partnership with MTV Entertainment Studios.

Watch the eye-popping trailer above!

Madame X  premieres Friday, Oct. 8 on Paramount+. 

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T his documentary opens with the old James Baldwin quotation about artists being here to disturb the peace, alongside a montage of the many controversies Madonna has sparked over the course of her career. There’s the quaint outrage she provoked in the Like a Virgin era; the Like a Prayer video with its flaming crosses, stigmata and snogging of a Black saint; the Sex book; the New York Post devoting its front page to an op-ed piece proclaiming her the “degenerate queen of sleaze” with the headline: “WHAT A TRAMP!”

Of course, the Madame X tour generated disquiet too, but not of Madonna’s traditional conservatives-clutching-their-pearls kind. The album it promoted was, by her standards at least, a commercial disaster – it entered the US charts at No 1, dropped 76 places the following week and vanished entirely the next. There were hotly denied claims that ticket sales for her series of theatre residencies were sluggish. Before Covid brought it to a premature end, the tour itself was pockmarked with cancelled dates, 16 in all, thanks to technical problems and injuries sustained by the singer, which underlined that the schedule was perhaps too punishing for its own good. In the US, there were reports of fans booing her for arriving on stage hours late: this being America, one enterprising audience member attempted to sue her . When a show at London’s Palladium ran over its allotted time, the venue dropped the curtain and turned the house lights up, prompting the singer to yell, “Fuck you motherfuckers! Censorship! Censorship!”

Clearly there is a fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary to be made about the Madame X tour, and the wider issue of not merely maintaining a career for 39 years but doing so at the absolute centre of pop: a fickle, ever-changing space that’s changed more dramatically than ever in recent years thanks to the advent of streaming. But the Madame X film isn’t it: a straightforward concert movie, the closest it comes to Madonna’s revealing 1991 documentary Truth or Dare is when you see a brief clip from Truth or Dare between songs.

It’s beautifully shot – so beautifully, in fact, that you wonder how they filmed it without impeding the live audience’s enjoyment – and occasionally subject to a little light updating: the footage of protests featured during opener Gun Control now includes those provoked by the murder of George Floyd, killed a couple of months after the Madame X tour ended. It can’t capture the sense of occasion that attended the shows – the excitement that a star of Madonna’s stature was playing smaller venues than stadiums – but it does allow the viewer to boggle at the sheer bullishness of her set. Not many artists with a back catalogue as rich in beloved, surefire anthems would choose to perform 11 songs from their new album and only seven old hits.

The staging is impressive and wilfully arty. It’s beautifully choreographed – the closeups on Madonna herself reveal a woman working extremely hard indeed and, judging by the occasional grimace, pushing herself through considerable pain – and the appearance by Cape Verde’s all-female Orquestra Batukadeiras is an untrammelled delight. But without the buzz of being there in person to carry you along, there are moments when the documentary lags.

Intriguingly, it was filmed in Lisbon, which is both the singer’s adopted home town and one of the few places on Earth where Madonna performing a succession of fado-inspired songs with lyrics in Portuguese – an entire section of the show was given over to these – is guaranteed to go down as well as Madonna singing, say, Hung Up or Into The Groove. You find yourself admiring Madonna’s desire to focus forward artistically and to recast her music as expressly political, while wondering if the songs from Madame X are really good enough to warrant so much of the spotlight.

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Madonna 's highly-anticipated new concert documentary officially has a release date.  Madame X  will exclusively debut on Paramount+ Oct. 8.

Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare concert performance there and will "take viewers on a journey as compelling and audacious as Madonna’s fearless persona, Madame X, a secret agent traveling around the world, changing identities, fighting for freedom, and bringing light to dark places," the documentary's log line reads.

Madonna called the experience of bringing her music and the culture of Lisbon to a global audience, "profoundly meaningful."

"Sharing my vision with global audiences has been profoundly meaningful to me. The opportunity to bring its message and the incandescent artistry of all involved to an even wider audience comes at a time when music is so deeply needed to remind us of the sacred bond of our shared humanity," the pop star said of the film.

The documentary aims to celebrate the seven-time Grammy-winner’s fourteenth studio album of the same name and will include new music alongside previous hits and fan favorites.  Madame X  will feature 48 on-stage performers including Madonna’s children, musicians and the all-female Orquestra Batukadeiras, whose style of music was created by women originating from island of Cape Verde.

From MTV Entertainment Studios, Madame X  is directed by Ricardo Gomes and SKNX.

Madame X  will premiere on  Paramount+ beginning Friday, October 8th.

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‘Madame X’ Review: A Madonna Concert Film That’s Heavy on Message, Light on Euphoria

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“ Madame X ,” the new Madonna concert film, opens with a montage of some of the pop superstar’s most legendary performances, music videos, and shock-theater provocations: the infamous moments from the MTV Video Music Awards, the transgressive S&M imagery and Gaultier fashion, the tabloid headlines like “What a Tramp” and “Madonna Has No Shame” (how quaint in the age of Instagram!), the on-cue outrage from the Catholic Church. The film closes with a montage of oppressed people and groups from around the world set to Madonna’s onstage performance of “I Rise,” a song about the powerless standing up to fight the power. The opening montage reminds you of the impassioned and sometimes scandalous effusiveness of Madonna in her heyday; each clip gives off a buzz. The final montage is earnest to a fault, and the song, while working overtime to be an anthem, is serviceable and far from ecstatic. (I don’t think it would inspire many people to rise.)

She tries to morph, seamlessly, from one to the other, playing up the idea that “artists are there to disturb the peace,” and evoking how much she has always been attacked for doing that very thing. Early on, she sits at a desk onstage, typing out a lengthy quote from James Baldwin, and by the end she has repeated the silhouetted typing number so often that we get the point: She herself is an artist just like Baldwin. Certainly, there’s a political dimension to Madonna’s art. At her height, she was a revolutionary, changing the possibilities for women, smashing more than a few ceilings to do so. For those of us who adore her, in song after song her passion and her message are inseparable. But one other thing that’s inseparable from those two things used to be her joy.

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“Madame X,” on the joy scale, feels drained. The show is a concert that plays, at times, like a lecture — or maybe the world’s most extended Oscar/Grammy star-makes-a-statement speech. But I don’t say that because I begrudge Madonna’s message. It’s just that she didn’t use to be so deadly serious and, at times, almost punitive about it.

Madonna, at her height, is one of the greatest live performers I’ve ever seen. She has put on transcendent shows, and the last time I saw her in concert, on the Confessions Tour in 2006 at Madison Square Garden, the show was held together by a rapture that was a form of reverence — her belief in life as a disco dream. But the mood of “Madame X” is quite different. It was filmed in January 2020 during Madonna’s six-night stand at the Coliseu dos Recreios in Lisbon, Portugal, as part of her 11th concert tour, which marked the first time she had played in theaters and smaller venues since the 1985 Like a Virgin tour. Given that, you might expect that she’d be striving for a newly intimate connection with her audience. But the Madonna we see in “Madame X,” wearing robed layers and, for a while, a black eyepatch with a bejeweled X at the center of it, is an imperious figure: a film-noir diva alter ego (code name: Madame X), stern and formidable, demanding of her sway in the universe.

Her feminism has evolved. She now presents herself as part of a collective, a larger women’s consciousness, and as a mother in every sense — the mother of her children, but also the mother of a movement away from the entrapment of male attitudes. In a sense, she’s been singing about that her whole career, but now it’s more explicit, more pointed. She’s a “freedom fighter,” she tells us, “but fighting for freedom comes with a price, as we all know.” She lets us feel the price. Though she’s still striving, in theory, to have a good time, she comes off as a tad defensive, as if people were still unfairly attacking her, and all the years of it had gotten to her. But I don’t recall Madonna being persecuted in recent times for letting her erotic freak flag fly. The culture is now freakier than she is, and the biggest change in her career is that she’s no longer center stage.

Let’s be brutally honest: The songs from the 2019 album “Madame X” lack the X factor. The movie opens with “God Control,” which has a monotonous groove, and features Madonna filtered through excessive autotune (“We’ve got to wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up…” ). The second song, “Dark Ballet,” with its sample from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, is better, if only because onstage it features wood nymphs in animal heads with gas-mask eyes. But then Madonna does “Human Nature,” from “Bedtime Stories,” and the concert springs to life. It’s a song I’ve always heard as her explicit answer to David Letterman — to the atrocious way he treated her during her appearance on his show in March 1994, when he wielded his uptightness like a nightstick.

In “Madame X,” the song is beautifully staged, with a trumpet out of an old Fine Young Cannibals track, a female chorus, a set that’s like Caligari by Escher, and scolding finger shadows on the wall. The number seethes more than ever, as Madonna turns its ultimate line (“I’m not your bitch don’t lay your shit on me”) into a mantra. It’s followed by “Vogue,” which features a collection of Madonna clones on stage, in Ray-Bans and platinum hair and trench coats, and you’re struck, more than ever, by what a gorgeous song it is — a reminder, through its celebration of the liberating aesthetics of drag balls, of the faith that echoed through the ’90s.

But those are rare high points in “Madame X,” which keeps getting pulled into a kind of didactic austerity. I seriously don’t mean to pillory Madonna on the greatness of her past work, but a song like “I Don’t Search I Find,” with its one-chord ostinato, could be retitled “Confessions of Tedium on a Dance Floor.” The song has no hook! As the movie goes on, the feeling it gives you is that for Madonna, art has become all about weighing the dynamics of power. And that has dampened her showbiz instincts.

At one point, she brings on an ensemble of Batuque singer-dancers from Cape Verde, and as she joins their traditional performance, the number gives off a glow. But she segues from that into several songs done in a Latin idiom (much of “Madame X” was recorded in Lisbon, where Madonna had moved in 2017 so that her son could find the ideal soccer club — we should all have such revolutionary options), and the truth is that the songs are nondescript. That goes even for a reworked “La Isla Bonita” (one of my favorite Madonna songs) that here becomes a “one two cha-cha-cha” banality. Madonna’s art has always been about a great many things: sex, romance, danger, kink, womanhood, defiance, the impulse to express yourself, the right to be — and, more than anything, what holds all of that together: the euphoria of pop music. In “Madame X,” there are bits of euphoria, but they take a back seat to something more grounded: the lure of purpose. Frankly, the euphoria served more purpose.

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Following her incredibly stunning performance at the Billboard Music Awards and the announcement of her highly anticipated new album Madame X available globally on June 14, Madonna , Live Nation and Maverick have announced a series of rare and intimate performances to take place exclusively in theaters , giving fans an opportunity to see Madonna in an environment like they never have before.

The Madame X Tour will kick off September 12, 2019 at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York and will feature multiple nights of shows in each city including performances at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago , the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas , The Wiltern in Los Angeles , the Boch Center Wang Theatre in Boston , The Met Philadelphia and at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theatre.

The European Leg of the Madame X Tour will kick off January 16, 2020 at the Lisbon Coliseum   and will then visit the Palladium in London and Le Grand Rex in Paris .

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“Stop raping the matriarchy!” Madonna , clad in a sequin-encrusted Revolutionary war costume, shouted to the sold-out crowd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House on Thursday night. Like the Madame X character she crafted for her 14th album , the Madonna who has opted for a theater residency after 37 years of touring stadiums and arenas is playing with multiple dualities. And like the alter-egos at the center of the album that dominates the concert, the show itself has a range of identities: at times it’s performance art, a political rally, a comedy show, a church and even her home in Lisbon, which inspired the record. And Madonna is everything from a political activist and a spy to a comedian and a “cha-cha” dancer on the stage. So why not mix sequins with a getup Thomas Jefferson might have sported while trying to protect women’s rights?

As she never really lets you forget, Madonna is calling the shots with “Madame X,” this show and plenty else besides. And for her, that means attempting to use her privilege and power to enact change while still owning her artistry, even if it is inexplicable at times.

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Like the first two nights of Madonna’s residency — which opened Tuesday but waited till Thursday to invite the press — attendees were required to lock up their phones for the entirety of the two-hour-plus performance. “I’m not here to be loved — I’m here to be free,” she says during the show, and part of that freedom apparently means not being photographed on anyone’s cellphone. Still, she knows the rule is controversial, so she takes the opportunity to auction off one Polaroid selfie she takes on stage to an audience member for $1,000 (on opening night, the buyer was Rosie O’Donnell).

Another part of being free is playing a set focused on the present and dominated by new material, as she has done for most of her tours in recent years. While longtime fans were probably prepared for this, it’s almost cruel: The few songs from Madge’s earlier career that she performs, including “Express Yourself” and “Papa Don’t Preach,” are largely cut to under a minute, while her “Madame X” tracks are performed in full. One couldn’t help but get the sense that the words in her recent song “Future” rang true for some members of the audience: “Not everybody’s coming to the future.”

The present Madonna is also 61, and the move from stadiums and arenas to a more intimate setting reflects that as well. She’s more than capable of dancing, but the demanding routines and choreography that a stadium tour would require may be off the table. Instead, the set is steeped in political commentary. For the opening of the set, she provides another duality: a James Baldwin credo and gunshots to introduce her anti-firearm disco anthem “God Control,” which sees the pop icon prompting the audience to “wake up.” Soon enough, she’s taken on an espionage persona in “I Don’t Search I Find” with a noir-style narrative where the vocoder is an interrogation tool and is hiding in plain sight as a blonde-bombshell spy with “Vogue.” Later she becomes a Lisbon club singer, putting her own spin on Portuguese genre “fado” backed by the guitarra-playing grandson of late fado singer Celeste Rodrigues, Gaspar Varela, and invite a group of batuque musicians to support her for “Batuka.”

Whether it’s more sequins — on nun garb during a choir-backed performance of “Like a Prayer” — or altering her famous lyric “I’m keeping my baby” to “I’m not keeping my baby” on “Papa Don’t Preach,” even the small moments of nostalgia are brought into the “Madame X” era and ethos. Yet, the most undeniably striking moment of the evening was a performance of “Frozen” where the legend sat inside a black and white hologram of her daughter Lourdes reimagining the song’s 1998 music video, bringing the stirring ballad into the present.

Of course, Madonna’s fight for “freedom” comes with creative risks. Some, like “Frozen,” pay off. Others are clunky, like when she does the Hustle in the aforementioned Revolutionary War costume during “God Control” while being bounced between two police officers’ shields. She touts female empowerment in unusual ways, with lines like “This is what it’s like to have Mozart coming out of my pussy,” getting the audience to chant “I’m not sorry,” and having her young daughter Esther declaring #Time’s Up to the audience.

By the end of the evening, the themes reach a closure: The show’s early gunshots are answered by a rallying cry for community with “I Rise,” which begins with an excerpt of a recorded speech by Parkland shooting survivor and activist Emma González. It’s Madonna’s warrior stance — one that includes exiting the stage via the aisle with an all-female choir.

And with that, a show full of extremes — and that, on its three opening nights, began at nearly 11 p.m. and ended after 1 a.m — comes to an end. Earlier in the evening Madonna turned on the charm and apologized for the lateness. “I’m sorry to keep you waiting tonight,” she smiled. “I have a lot of wigs. I have six kids. I’ll never do it again.” And once this tour concludes, she probably won’t — at least not at an opera house in Brooklyn.

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Madonna's fans have had enough of her late concert starts.

A group of fans who attended the pop star's Washington, D.C., concert on April 18 and 19 sued Madonna for "wanton exercise in false advertising, intentional and negligent misrepresentation and unfair and deceptive trade practices," according to the complaint obtained by FOX Business.

"Madonna and Live Nation have publicly stated that it is not reasonable for consumers to believe that the 8:30 start time on the ticket indicates that’s when the concert will begin and that no concerts start on the start time as advertised," the court documents read.

MADONNA SUED BY CONCERTGOERS FOR ALLEGEDLY STARTING SHOW 2 HOURS LATE: ‘NEGLIGENT MISREPRESENTATION’

Fans have sued Madonna again for a late concert start in Washington, D.C. (Getty / Getty Images)

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This isn't Madonna's first lawsuit from fans. She was previously sued in New York by Michael Fellows and Jonathan Hadden for "unconscionable, unfair, and/or deceptive trade practices" after starting her "Celebration Tour" Brooklyn stop late.

Madonna's concert was advertised as beginning at 8:30 p.m., but the "Material Girl" singer did not make it to the stage until 10:30 p.m. on all three nights at the Barclays Center, according to the court docs.

"Madonna had demonstrated flippant difficulty in ensuring a timely or complete performance, and Defendants were aware that any statement as to a start time for a show constituted, at best, optimistic speculation," the lawsuit alleged.

Madonna's legal team has since filed a motion to dismiss the class action suit.

Madonna was sued over a late start at her Brooklyn stops on the "Celebration Tour." (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images / Getty Images)

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Madonna is notoriously late for her concerts and was sued in 2019 for pushing back a Madame X tour stop in Miami. A fan attempted to get a refund after the concert had been rescheduled from the original start time of 8:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., NBC reported.

Ticketholders had to work and go to school the next day, which prevented them from attending a concert that would end at around 1:00 a.m.," the suit claimed, according to the outlet. "(Nate) Hollander attempted, without success, to obtain a refund for the three tickets purchased for the Madonna concert."

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Madonna didn't begin the "Celebration Tour" until December after suffering a medical emergency in June 2023. (Getty Images / Getty Images)

Madonna also took the stage late on the opening night of the Celebration Tour in the U.S., December 13. A source familiar with the matter told FOX Business that Madonna had been about an hour late for the concert in Brooklyn. The pop star sound-checked nearly until the doors opened at 7:30 p.m., the insider said.

At one point during the concert, Madonna asked the crowd whether they could hear her, because she was hearing an echo in her earpiece, the source explained.

Madonna's Celebration Tour, which also marked her 40-year anniversary in the entertainment industry, was postponed in July 2023 after the star suffered a "serious bacterial infection" that required an ICU stay in June.

She eventually took the stage in December following her recovery.

Madonna recently spoke with W Magazine about life on tour with her kids, saying, "nothing brings me more happiness than to know we are all working on the same show, creating the magic together."

The mother of six explained, "It would be boring if they were just traveling from hotel to hotel, and occasionally coming to watch the show. Of course, I am their mother, so sometimes we get on each other’s nerves. We are a family of artists, but we are also a family, and that’s what happens."

Madonna with her son David Banda performing during The Celebration Tour at the O2 Arena on October 15, 2023, in London, England.  (Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Live Nation / Getty Images)

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Madonna Sued Again for Late Concert Start Time 

Pop icon Madonna is known for showing up to the stage late, and now, she’s facing a second lawsuit from frustrated concertgoers.

Madonna made headlines this year after two concertgoers sued her for her tardiness, claiming they “had to get up early to go to work.” While she filed to dismiss the suit, she’s now facing a second lawsuit from three concertgoers in Washington, D.C. The three fans — Elizabeth Halper-Asefi, Mary Conoboy, and Nestor Monte, Jr. — filed the federal class-action lawsuit against the “Like A Virgin” singer and Live Nation, claiming that their tickets to her Celebration Tour said she would take the stage at 8:30 p.m., though she didn’t make an appearance until 10: 30 p.m.

According to the filing, obtained by Rolling Stone, the concertgoers said they were “deceived” and had to “leave the concerts early prior to the concerts’ conclusion.” Additionally, the suit claimed that Madonna kept a “hot and uncomfortable temperature in the venue during her performance” and “lip sync[ed]” much of the show. The plaintiffs said these actions represent “Madonna’s arrogant and total disrespect” for ticketholders.

During the show in question on December 18, 2023, the suit claimed Madonna told the crowd: “I am sorry I am late…no, I am not sorry, it’s who I am…I’m always late.”

The suit also pointed to Madonna’s known tardiness — citing her 2016 Rebel Heart tour, as well as her Madame X concerts in Brooklyn, noting that although her alleged tardiness seems well known, “unfortunately, not all people who rely on advertising for concerts know this.

The plaintiffs cite breach of contract and misrepresentation. They are seeking damages, interest, and “any other relief.”

This follows news earlier this year where Madonna, Live Nation, and Barclays Center were named in a suit regarding her show on December 13, 2023 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Madonna has filed a motion to dismiss the suit, challenging that the concertgoers were inconvenienced by the delayed start time. The motion said tickets did not advertise that Madonna would actually take the stage at 8:30 p.m., “and no reasonable concertgoer — and certainly no Madonna fan — would expect the headline act at a major arena concert to take the stage at the ticketed event time.”

“A reasonable concertgoer would understand that the venue’s doors will open at or before the ticketed time … and the headline act will take the stage later in the evening,” the motion reads. “Fans got just what they paid for: a full-length, high-quality show by the Queen of Pop.”

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Salma Hayek Joins Madonna for ‘Vogue’ in Mexico City

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Madonna performed her penultimate concert on her massive Celebration Tour in Mexico City on Friday night, and to mark the occasion she invited surprise guest Salma Hayek . The actress served as a judge during the “Vogue” ballroom competition at Madonna’s concert at the Palacio de Los Deportes.

Hayek shared videos and photos from the moment via Instagram on Saturday. Channeling Frida Kahlo — the legendary painter whom the actress portrayed in the 2002 film — with her vibrant ensemble, she is seen in a Vogue pose and on stage beside Madonna ready to share score cards as a ballroom judge of the dancers’ performances during “Vogue.”

“Thank you so much @madonna for letting me be a part of your iconic celebration tour,” Hayek captioned the post. “This unforgettable night goes in my bag of precious treasures. #VIVAMEXICO #VIVAMADONNA .”

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Madonna’s final tour stop is a big one, in fact it’s slated to draw her biggest crowd yet. On May 4, she concludes the tour with a free show at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil .

The performance marks the star’s first time performing in Brazil since 2012 (during her MDNA run), and is billed to be “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.”

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Madonna is wrapping up her current concert tour over the next few days with a trilogy of shows in Mexico City. Prices have been climbing over recent days, so you'll have to be sharp if you want to buy Madonna tickets for these dates while you can for the The Celebration Tour.

Before she takes her final bow of the Celebration Tour concert series in April 2024, Madonna will have performed 52 shows across 27 cities in the US, Canada, and Mexico. While many dates earlier in the tour were available for under $100, these final dates will cost you at least $245 at the time of writing. Still, it's a few grand cheaper than the Swifties have been paying this year.

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With the concert series being a retrospective celebration of her iconic career, The Celebration Tour's setlist unsurprisingly includes plenty of Madonna's timeless hits. Songs like "Like a Prayer," "Vogue," "Don't Cry for Me Argentina," and "Like a Virgin" have been performed across various dates on her tour.

We've got you covered if you're still looking for tickets to Madonna's Celebration Tour. Here's our breakdown of Madonna's remaining 2024 tour schedule, purchasing details, and original and resale ticket prices. You can also browse the available tickets for sale on StubHub and Vivid Seats at your leisure.

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How to buy tickets for Madonna's 2024 concert tour

Madonna tickets have been on sale for a while now, so all original ones via Ticketmaster are long gone.

However, Madonna tickets are still available through verified resale vendors like StubHub and Vivid Seats .

How much do Madonna tickets cost?

The price for standard original tickets to Madonna's 2024 tour varies depending on date, location, and demand. For example, concert dates in major cities like New York City tend to be more expensive.

Standard original tickets still available on Ticketmaster a few weeks ago  were comparable to prices on verified resale platforms. However, the remaining original tickets have all been snapped up though, so resale vendors are your only hope now.

The Celebration Tour originally had VIP tickets available for premium prices. Madonna's 2024 concert series had The Immaculate VIP Package, Iconic VIP Package), You Can Dance Premium Ticket Package, and Where's The Party Premium Ticket Package. The prices for original tickets for each package on Ticketmaster started at $1,750, $895, $545, and $475, respectively.

Who is opening for Madonna's tour?

Madonna has not announced any additional opening acts for her 2024 concert dates. However, the artist is joined by Bob the Drag Queen, a special guest in each of her shows, who helps introduce the concert and interacts with Madonna as the emcee.

Madonna's 2024 tour began with the international leg in Europe, so the only remaining concerts in The Celebration Tour outside the United States are in Mexico.

In April, she'll have five performances in Mexico City, where she'll take her final bow of The Celebration Tour on April 26.

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