Santo Domingo, EFE.- The British band Coldplay took the Dominican audience into the stratosphere with the concert they offered this Tuesday in Santo Domingo as part of their “Music of the Spheres” tour, a show that is much more than just music offers.
A colorful staging with projections, laser lights, pyrotechnics, torches and confetti provided the spectators with endless stimuli parallel to the performance of Chris Martin and his crew, who opened the concert with the eponymous theme of this tour, messages for the protection of the environment.
The Olympic Stadium in the Dominican capital was a small universe full of stars, indicated by the LED bracelets worn by the participants, which changed color to the beat of hits from different eras of the group, such as “Viva la vida”, “Higher Power ”, “Yellow” or “Clocks”.
Martin sweated his shirt, as devoted to the audience as the audience was to him. When the singer asked the audience to raise their hands, they raised their hands, when he asked them to jump, they jumped, and when he asked them to turn off their phones for at least one song, the audience obediently put them away.
He also made an effort to address the audience in Spanish until the group left the stage, whereupon the audience sang the most played oh, oh, oh in history (“Viva la vida”) and had the band reappear to please the fans with several encores, but not in the expected place.
In anticipation of the main stage and the satellite structure connected to it by a catwalk, through which Martin moved more than one model in a fashion week, it took some time for those present to realize that the leader of the band was in another unexpected place. .
In a third structure of small dimensions and after asking (this time in English) that the public send their energy to a world going through a difficult time, he surprised those present with some verses of the song “Bachata” by Juan Luis Guerra rosa”, which he only accompanied with an acoustic guitar.
The song “Biutyful”, performed as a duo with a doll, ended (this time) about two hours full of positive energy and some Mars moments at Coldplay’s first performance in the Dominican Republic.
It was also their first “carbon neutral” concert in the Caribbean, as the band asked organizers to recycle any plastic, cardboard or other waste materials generated during their performance.
In fact, on this tour, which started in Costa Rica on March 18th and will take them to Mexico, the USA, Germany, Poland, France, Belgium, Scotland, the band is doing everything possible to reduce pollutant emissions to a minimum. England and Brazil EFE
