Confusingly renamed the Metropolitan, which has nothing to do with the Metropolitano mall. The…read morecrowd control letting people into the event was a nightmare. Several people had obviously waited a long time to be at the front of the line because it was all open standing floor room at the first (and cheapest) level so they could run to the stage and get a good spot. The line wrapped around the whole parking lot. But when the gates finally were opened people who came later just walked right in, without guards managing the line. There were in fact two lines, not clearly marked until you got close to the entrance. One was a regular line and the other the priority line for people who had premier seating. Once we got past security (they patted people down and very briefly looked through purses) we made a stop at the restrooms. The woman's bathrooms were poorly laid out with 10 tiny stalls without any the place was already out of paper! They had a several drink stands around the area, one spot selling a couple tshirts, an upstairs for VIP seating, a side section for more VIP separated by a shaky movable rail barrier that was misaligned and many people tripped on the step in the dark. There were some garbage cans around but not a whole lot. The place was difficult to move around and people were a bit pushy in the crowded areas. The standing area was tiered which was better for shorter people to be able to see but the steps were shallow and didn't make that big of a difference. The shows for Mumford and Sons who opens for Florence + The Machine were good, with decent acoustics. The singers were all quite talented so their voices sounded good. Florence had a video projected on the side screens, which obviously was having technically differences shortly after their set started and only ran a timer clock after the visual cut out. Lighting and stage effects were typical for a stadium that size. Finding transportation afterwards was a mess. People poured out from several exits and taxis had to enter the mall section to pick up customers. Taxis were negotiating fares based on neighborhoods, not meters using distances so II had to have a price in mind. Ubers and 99 taxis weren't picking up because the systems were just flooded with requests. Many taxis were just handing out looking for their customer who requested them. There wasn't a taxi line set up or directions to the nearest bus station that looked walkable if you knew where you were going. Plan accordingly, it took almost two hours by taxi on a Monday night to get there from the closest part of Zona Sul with traffic and one the way home by Uber with surge rates can cost R$175!

What an experience. Rehearsal for Carnival 2025. I cannot believe the ambience and overall fun ! A…read moremust do. Oregado Salguero.

This is the real thing first if all. The dancers here had the best skills from what I've see in…read moreRio. The production of the dances was not good meaning that the dancers simply did their standard stuff which is personal skill but no thought at all given to choreography. In fact the band played on the stage and the dancers are at floor level with audience initially sitting around plastic tables and chairs. When the dancers got started, after 11pm the audience left their seats and formed a circle around the area with the dancers. Then everyone else had to stand up but only people in the first line of the circuit could see anything. It seems to us that's how the audience is used to in this place. It took us 10 minutes to squeeze in to the front so we can watch. After that we enjoyed the high skill level of the dancers. I would recommend to people who are adaptable