The director of promoter Everything Is New, Alvaro Covões said today Lusa that tickets for the two-day concert Adele in Lisbon have already exhausted, and 6,500 were acquired by foreigners.
“I are exhausted the two days since yesterday [Friday] night, “said Alvaro Covões, adding that” 6,500 tickets have been sold to foreigners. “
Ticket sales for the May concerts began on Friday -feira, exhausted on the day.
Asked by Lusa Agency about the provenance of these foreigners, they will have to come to Portugal in May to attend the Adele concert, Alvaro Covões said, “Fundamentally were sold in Spain and England “.
” Those who sell through Ticketline are perfectly identified, but we sell out there only next week is that we know. But only directly to a distributor in England know that were sold 1,200 tickets “exemplified the margin 41 of the Congress of the Portuguese Association of Travel Agencies (APAVT), taking place in Albufeira.
At a time when the festivals, like the surf, are assumed to be tourist attracting factor for Portugal, Alvaro Covões admits that despite the promoter trying to “always prefer the Portuguese” also assume “that is crucial to the Portuguese economy to attract foreign, especially in the case of a weekend.”
So, he adds, “try to put a quota available to ensure that they [foreigners] come to Portugal.”
According to the same official, 15% of ticket sales took place in Oporto and 4% in the Algarve, for example. Lisbon is 42%.
“We know this is a phenomenon, there is no artist more than Adele at the moment and therefore sold out in every city yesterday,” said yet.
Meo Arena in Lisbon, where the singer will act has a capacity of about 18,000 places. For two days, the official says went on sale about 35,000 tickets.
The British singer has concerts scheduled for 21 and 22 May.
The Artist, who edited last week the album ’25′, will undergo Lisbon as part of a European tour, the first in four years.
Adele, born in London in 1988, announced in October that would edit the third album the November 20, preceded by the theme ‘Hello’. This song quickly reached the top of the record table with 1.1 million sales in digital, while the official video has surpassed 400 million views.
The US magazine Rolling Stone, which put Adele on the cover of one of the last editions, tells a “triumphant” return discography. In an interview to the publication, the singer said he did not feel part of the world of celebrity and feel afraid of fame, being a thing “toxic”.
Adele not edited a new album since 2011, when he left ’21′, the album which includes songs like ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and ‘Someone Like You’, which earned him six Grammy and an entry in the book of Guinness records.
Since then, the singer gave some concerts, was forced to cancel others, vocal cord problems, still recorded ‘Skyfall’, which earned him a Best Original Song Oscar, and then devoted himself to the family – had a son – with spaced public appearances.
’25 ‘- title that refers to the age at which composed the songs – is an album that focuses on herself, to understand who is now without having realized as time went on, as explained in the official website. “Sorry it took me a long time [editing it], but, you know, life happened,” explained
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