Watch Madonna’s surprise Met Gala performance
The Queen of Pop reigned supreme in New York on Monday night (May 7).
By Will Stroude
Madonna ensured attendees at New York’s Met Gala were given a truly religious experience on Monday night (May 7) with a surprise performance at fashion’s biggest night of the year.
The pop superstar, who wowed on the red carpet in a Jean Paul Gaultier gown, black net veil and glittering, crucifix-adorned crown, led the post-dinner festivities with haunting renditions of ‘Like a Prayer’, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ and a brand new song.
Flanked by dancers dressed in religious habits, the performance inside the Great Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was filmed by Vogue and – handily for fans – streamed live by Donatella Versace herself.
With a theme of ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’, the annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute saw A-listers including Rihanna, Katy Perry, and Amal Clooney celebrate haute couture fashion in some truly awe-inspiring outfits.
Madonna, who turns 60 this year, has been busy working on her forthcoming 14th studio album as well as raising her expanding brood of children, which includes 5-year-old twin sisters Ester and Stella, who she adopted from Malawi last year.
Stairway to Heaven! ♥️. #metgala #epic. 👑 👑 #jeannedarc 🔥🔥🔥🔥#catholicimagination 😇😇😇 @JPGaultier thank you all who hepled make it happen! 🙏🏼 @voguemagazine pic.twitter.com/Z6tBGdq3dA
— Madonna (@Madonna) May 8, 2018
With it now more than three years since Madge’s last record – 2015’s criminally-underrated Rebel Heart – Monday night’s performance was a welcome reminder that we need the Queen of Pop back in our lives stat.
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