Camacho Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Associated Press Rome In Frenzy Over Madonna POSTED: 2:20 pm EDT August 6, 2006 UPDATED: 2:37 pm EDT August 6, 2006 ROME -- Madonna has Rome in a frenzy. Hundreds of fans have gathered in front of the singer's hotel, and a rumor that she was shopping on one of Rome's most chic streets sent fans rushing there in hopes of getting a glimpse. Madonna's was to perform in Rome on Sunday night -- her only Italian tour date. Some 70,000 people were expected at the show. The concert has drawn criticism in Roman Catholic Italy -- especially for Madonna's plans to appear crucified on a mirrored cross while wearing a crown of thorns. Madonna's spokeswoman said the show "is not negative nor disrespectful toward the church." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 6, 2006 Author Share Posted August 6, 2006 Fans outside her hotel yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindi Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Italians do it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Camacho Posted August 6, 2006 Author Share Posted August 6, 2006 Pedro Almodovar and Lenny Kravitz (at least the 4th time seeing the show! ) attended the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario24 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Lenny has attended more times that some Iconers and Nation's fan here!!!! jejejejeje ............. Good for him !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeMySoul Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 I have a feeling Madonna and Lenny are working on a new project together! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Lenny traveled all the way to Rome to see the show, after seeing it a few times in the USA? Hmmm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maverick25 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Lenny has attended more times that some Iconers and Nation's fan here!!!! jejejejeje ............. Good for him !!! Yes cause hes either getting free tickets or the fact he can well afford to. Go Lenny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dindi Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Pedro Almodovar and Lenny Kravitz (at least the 4th time seeing the show! ) attended the show. A dream of mine would be for Madonna to work with Almodovar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverwide Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Did the crowd get to sing Crazy For You to her?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest maverick25 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Wooo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 6, 2006 Author Share Posted August 6, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeMySoul Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 FORZA MADONNA FORZA MADONNA FORZA MADONNA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FreeMySoul Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Here are the HQ press photos: http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/5024/454690eo6.jpg Look at that gorgeous smile: http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/6167/454691wh1.jpg http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2944/454694bi0.jpg http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/2258/454695oz4.jpg http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7812/454698iq0.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 6, 2006 Author Share Posted August 6, 2006 Thanks! :agnetha: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littlebastard Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 LENNY AGAIN? WTF???????????? I LOVE IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skin Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 During FL did the two guys always have those Jewish and Muslim symbols painted on them? If not than good for Madonna thinking it up. Makes the statement that more powerful. She looks amazing by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Papi Si. Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 OMG at Lenny and Madge. Please do a song together. PLEASE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ai Papi Si. Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 And let me just say how much I'm enjoying Italy's love towards Madonna... It really would have been incredible to see the show there. All the press she's been getting for it makes it feel like opening night all ova again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 6, 2006 Author Share Posted August 6, 2006 During FL did the two guys always have those Jewish and Muslim symbols painted on them? No it's something new added to the show @ a London Wembley show last week. Here's a RAI UNO news report from Italy (this news report aired early Sunday before the show took place, that LAV concert footage in the report is from Wembley!): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Madonna "crucified" in Rome, Vatican protests By Rachel Sanderson ROME (Reuters) - Madonna staged a mock-crucifixion in the Italian capital on Sunday, ignoring a storm of protest and accusations of blasphemy from the Roman Catholic Church. In a sold-out stadium just a mile from Vatican City, the lapsed-Catholic diva wore a fake crown of thorns as she was raised on a glittery cross during the Rome stop of her worldwide "Confessions Tour". The Vatican had accused her of blasphemy and provocation for even considering staging the sham crucifixion on its doorstep, anger Madonna further enflamed prior to the show by inviting Pope Benedict to come and watch. The self-styled "Queen of Pop" went on to pepper her two-and-a-half hour show with more controversial imagery, at one point showing photographs of the pope after those of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. "Did you know two miracles have taken place in Rome?," the star, dressed in skin-skimming black, later joked with the crowd. "Italy won the World Cup and the rain stopped before my show." The 70,000 fans, crammed into the Olympic Stadium, shrugged off the scandal, by dancing, singing and jumping as she performed songs from her latest album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" and classics, such as "Like a Virgin". Yet, the cheering lulled when she was raised on the cross and some fans from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy confessed their disappointment. "The crucifixion was unnecessary and provocative. Because this is Rome, I wish she'd cut it out. But it's Madonna, she's an icon, and that balances out her need to provoke," said 39-year old Roman, Tonia Valerio. It is not the first time Madonna, whose father is a Catholic Italian American, has caused religious anger for her controversial religious and sexual imagery. Catholic leaders condemned as blasphemous her 1989 video for hit song "Like a Prayer", featuring burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus. In 2004, a Vatican group warned that her latest religious belief "Kabbalah", a mystical from of Judaism, was a potential threat to the Roman Catholic faithful. And she looks likely to face another storm when the tour reaches Moscow in September, where the Russian Orthodox Church has advised its followers to boycott the show because of the crucifixion stunt, agency Interfax reported on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hyperballad_brad Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Did the crowd get to sing Crazy For You to her?? My friend who went said they didnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HolidayGuy Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 Wasn't that the plan for her birthday show? I don't remember reading about it happening in Rome? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 It was planned for the Italy show. There was even a website made for it. http://www.semplicementegeri.it/madonna/index_en.htm I heard that they tried to do it at the show but they weren't organized and loud enough to make a notice there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Associated Press Fans confess pure adoration ROME, Italy (AP) -- Religious leaders may have snubbed Madonna as a publicity-seeking blasphemer, but there was pure adoration from Italian fans when the pop star staged a mock crucifixion at her concert in Rome. The crowd of 70,000 cheered wildly and many snapped pictures with cell phone cameras when the diva rose from the stage crucified on a mirrored cross and wearing a crown of thorns. "She does it to play, not to offend," said Benedetta Mori, a 31-year-old fan wearing a T-shirt with an image of Madonna on the cross. "If they allowed her to stage the show here they must also play by her rules." The planned stunt, part of the singer's worldwide "Confessions" tour, had drawn fire from religious leaders, who condemned it as an act of hostility toward the Roman Catholic Church. Some had wanted her to give up the mock crucifixion during her show at the capital's Olympic Stadium, some 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the Vatican. Madonna's representatives have insisted the performance on the cross is not disrespectful toward the church. Besides Madonna's rendition of "Live to Tell" while on the cross, religious symbols abounded throughout the two-hour show. Two dancers with a star of David and a Muslim crescent painted on their torsos embraced and held hands during their routine. A figure wearing a robe and turban did a solo on the shofar, a ram's horn traditionally blown during the Jewish high holidays, then joined Madonna to perform "Isaac" -- a song about Yitzhak Luria, a 16th century Jewish mystic and Kabbalah scholar. "Two miracles have happened," Madonna told the crowd. "Italy won the World Cup and it stopped raining before my show." Keeping in touch with her material side, Madonna also got the crowd moving with her more traditional gyrating dancing and disco-flavored numbers. "Ciao Roma! Are you ready to ride with me?" said the equestrian-styled Madonna as she opened a concert that included recent hits "Hung up" and "Music" as well as classics "Like a virgin" and "La Isla Bonita." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 My Italian translation skills suck, but they'd sound less goofy than running it through Babelfish Anyway the gist is that they basically summarize the show, say The QUEEN OF POP's show was a triumph and that the delirious crowd loved it. Penelope Cruz saw the show too http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/ar...olo322188.shtml Roma, 70mila stregati da Madonna Trionfo per l'unico show italiano Camaleontica, travolgente, super-tonica nonostante le 48 primavere, Madonna ha conquistato i 70mila fan accorsi all'Olimpico per l'unica data italiana del suo "Confessions Tour". Dopo 5 anni di assenza dall'Italia (e 16 dalla capitale), l'ex Material Girl non ha mancato di provocare, spaziando dai frustini sadomaso alla chiacchierata scena della crocifissione. Cantate tuttele hit, da "Like a Virgin" a "Live to Tell". L'Olimpico esplode in un boato impressionante quando si spengono le luci, poco prima di tramutarsi in un enorme dance hall. "Ciao Roma, are you ready?", chiede la regina del pop alla folla urlante. Sale su un cavallo meccanico, si contorce, sensuale e ammiccante cantando "Like a Virgin". Molti i brani attesi dai fan in delirio, poi il momento più atteso dello show, diviso in quattro atti, e "Live to Tell", che arriva dopo "Jump", nel quale la diva appare con una corona di spine d'acciaio sul capo e appesa all'ormai celebre crocifisso che ha unito contro di lei esponenti cattolici, musulmani ed ebrei. Il gusto della provocazione si accende anche quando la cantante, durante "Future Lovers" gioca a fare la dominatrice-sadomaso soggiogando i suoi ballerini-acrobati con tanto di frustino. Non manca la pagina dell'impegno, quando sulle note di "Sorry" la popstar ha lancia messaggi politici contro i potenti della Terra (e sullo sfondo appaiono le immagini di Papa Ratzinger, Condoleeza Rice, Bin Laden, Mussolini, Hitler, Tony Blair, Nixon, Saddam e Bush), quando ricorda i milioni di bambini malati di Aids e parla di pace: "E' possibile avere la pace in questo mondo - dice Madonna, sempre in inglese - Dovete credere che cambiare il mondo è possibile". Per chiudere, Madonna, in body, corpetto di paillettes e occhialetti, sceglie quattro canzoni simbolo della sua carriera: "Erotica", "La Isla Bonita", "Lucky star" e "Hung up", cantata assieme al pubblico adorante. Lunghissima la lista dei vip che hanno assistito all'unica data italiana dello show di Madge: da Francesco Totti e Ilary Blasi a Piero Chiambretti, da Baglioni a Pino Daniele, da Stefano Accorsi ad Alex Del Piero, fino a Irene Grandi, Elisa, Francesco Renga con Ambra Angiolini. Fra gli stranieri, si sono visti Pedro Almodovar, Penelope Cruz e Lenny Kravitz. Tutti incantati da uno show mastodintico e tecnologicamente perfetto, che ha confermato che Louis Veronica Ciccone (250 milioni di dischi vendutio in 20 anni di carriera) non ha ancora nessuna voglia di passare il testimone di regina del pop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeMySoul Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 The crowd at Wembley for the Aug. 15 and 16th show should try to sing C4U to her and maybe it'll make it in the broadcast! Anyway, glad that the Rome show went on without a hitch and she didn't change the show...not that she would. lol Hope there is some footage from this show online soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camacho Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 Jamesy captured this from the Rai Uno Italian TV news this morning. They showed good chunks of Get Together and Like A Virgin from the Rome concert with a journalist talking over them. Check out madonna-tv.com for links to the video report - you can choose between MegaUpload and RapidShare with more download options to follow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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