Shakira in Rio: Check out the operating plan for show on Copacabana

The operational planning for the show of the singer Shakira, in Praia de Copacabana, on Saturday (02/05) was presented on Thursday (29/04). Two million people are expected in this edition of the event “Everybody in Rio”, which already integrates the official calendar of the city, with presentations scheduled in May.

Municipal agents will act in several areas to ensure another successful event and the operation of the city: security, public policy actions, traffic surveillance, urban cleaning, social assistance, emergency care, reception and prevention of violence against women.

To facilitate public transportation, there will be a special transport operation, with exclusive lines leaving from Botafogo to Copacabana, in addition to the 24-hour operation of the Metro and Line 1 of the VLT. The city also detailed the access and parking restrictions on Copacabana, which begin at 0h on Saturday. In addition, 318 cameras will be used in the monitoring of the Copacabana region, with 162 installed on the edge and on roads near the event.

The party starts at 5:30 p.m. with performances by two guest DJs on stage set in front of the Copacabana Palace. Shakira's main show is scheduled for 9:45 and should last about two hours. After the presentation, from 0:15, another DJ takes charge to keep the audience excited.

Also presented were the general structures and the numbers showing the scale of the event, which will have the largest stage of all editions of the “Every World in Rio”, with 2,500 m2. The runway in front of the stage will be 25 meters long, and the stage will feature 680 m2 of LED panels. In addition, there will be 16 sound and video towers scattered across the sand for the live show.

As in other shows on the beach, there will be a special structure for people with disabilities, with three reserved areas: in front of Duvivier Street, Ronald de Carvalho Street and Avenida Prado Júnior.

CET Rio

The Traffic Engineering Company of Rio de Janeiro will implement a special transit operation for Shakira's show on Saturday (02/05), at Copacabana Beach. The scheme will start at 0h on Saturday, 2 May, with the total ban on Atlantic Avenue and its accesses to ride cars, including the slopes of the waterfront and next to the buildings, in addition to the parking ban on Copacabana, Botafogo and Epitácio Pessoa Avenue, in Lagoa.

The charter buses will also be prohibited from entering Copacabana from 0h Saturday, as well as from parking in nearby areas such as Botafogo, Ipanema, Urca, Avenida Epitácio Pessoa and Morro do Pasmado.

At 6 p.m. on Saturday, the general blockade of access routes to Copacabana will begin, except for regular taxis and buses. The Aterro do Flamengo and the Inlet of Botafogo will also be banned at this time for the preparation of the bus terminal for exit from the public. At 19h, the blockade will be total for all types of vehicles, including buses and taxis, which will no longer be able to circulate in the neighborhood.

Traffic in Copacabana will begin to be released from 4h Sunday (03/05). The runway of Avenida Atlântica, for the leisure area, as occurs on Sundays and holidays, as well as other 24 external blocking points, will remain prohibited. From 10 a.m., the runway will be released next to the buildings of Avenida Atlântica. The reversible range will be implanted on this track.

CET-Rio will have 205 agents, between operators and traffic supporters, as well as 49 motorcycles and 26 operational vehicles. The teams will act to maintain traffic flow, curb irregular parking, organize crossings, guide pedestrians and perform the necessary blockades in the region. CET-Rio technicians at the Rio Operations Center will do real-time monitoring to adjust the traffic lights programming if necessary.

700 ballasts will be installed with guidance on the parking ban on Copacabana to alert drivers. About three thousand vacancies will be removed in the region. 45 guidance lanes and 31 variable message panels will also be used, with information on traffic changes, time and location of the roadblocks, parking restrictions and traffic conditions.

The City Hall recommends that the public give preference to public transportation, especially to the subway, which does not suffer impact of road closures; plan the displacement in advance; avoid the forbidden areas; use alternative routes; and follow the guidelines of traffic agents and the deployed signaling.

Department of Women's Protection

On Saturday, SPM-Rio will carry out a series of actions aimed at protecting, welcoming and guiding women during the show, focusing on coping with harassment and gender violence.

The performance will have a specialized support team, formed by psychologists, social workers and/or lawyers identified and prepared to provide immediate support in cases of harassment or violence. The work includes on-site welcoming, humanized care and emergency referral, when necessary, ensuring a quick and safe response for women.

In addition to face-to-face care, SPM-Rio will also promote an awareness campaign with the distribution of information materials on the different forms of violence against women and the channels of search for help, including the dissemination of the website www.woman.rio, which connects women to the equipment and services of the municipality's protection network.

Women welcomed during the event will also have a follow-up by the Secretariat team, being directed to one of the SPM-Rio network equipment, ensuring continuity in support, guidance and access to protection and care services.

Municipal Department of Social Assistance

SMAS will perform during the concert of the Colombian singer. Among the actions planned is the distribution of identification bracelets for children and adolescents in the subway stations Cardinal Arcoverde and Cantagalo, main access points to the event.

The bracelets will have the name of the child or adolescent and the person responsible, in addition to a contact phone, facilitating the location in cases of mismatch and promoting the reunion with the family members.

Technical teams from the Secretariat will make rounds on the edge of Copacabana, from 8h Saturday to 4h Sunday morning, for social approaches. If they identify situations of vulnerability, professionals will offer institutional reception and referral to the social assistance network.

The Secretariat will also promote campaigns to combat sexual violence and eradicate child labor, with actions to guide and distribute educational material.

Public Order

SEOP will act in the actions of urban planning, preventive patrolling, inspection of street vendors – especially to curb the entry of glass bottles in the area of the show – irregular occupation of public area, in addition to the fight against irregular parking and eventual assistance to the work carried out at the points of roadblocks access to Avenida Atlântica.

The teams notified previously during the month of April about 20 hotels on the edge of the neighborhood, with the aim of prohibiting the holding of events without authorization in rooftops. Notifications were also distributed to the kiosks (so that they comply with the rules and do not perform fences), and to the sheds, aiming to respect the limits of occupation.

The preventive phase of the actions focused on the logistic disarticulation of unauthorized street vendors in the neighborhood. Therefore, several operations were carried out in clandestine deposits in Copacabana in the second half of April. It is worth remembering that the organization of the event registered four thousand sales promoters between April 10 and 19. They will be able to work at Avenida Atlântica between 07h of May 2, 2026 until 12h of May 3, 2026.

The well-known “Operation Tatuí” will also be held on the two nights preceding the show. The idea is to locate cans, glass bottles and other products that are buried in the sands by street vendors in order to circumvent the supervisory actions. The city folder will use two drones in these operations.

Approximately 400 agents will be directly involved in the actions on the day of the event. The teams will have the help of 35 operational vehicles, 10 motorcycles and 10 trailers that will focus their actions on fighting irregular parking. All teams will have – at least – radio-transmitter equipment to assist in operational communication and reduce response time in occurrences. Images of drones will also guide surveillance actions, especially when the sand strip of Copacabana Beach is taken by the public.

Comlurb

A special operational planning of cleaning was set up for the free show. The Company mobilizes a contingent of 2,000 garis, distributed in turns and organized by strategic sectors, contemplating the sand strip, bike lanes, sidewalks, Atlantic Avenue and main access routes.

105 equipments and 100 vehicles will be used in the operation, with emphasis on dump trucks, motorcycle vans and blasters, consolidating the largest hydraulic cleaning action ever performed by the Company in an event on the edge of the city, overcoming the operation of the Lady Gaga show last year.

The staff will act on Avenida Atlântica and on the main access routes to the site, including the surroundings of the subway stations Cardinal Arcoverde and Cantagalo, before and after the event. The action will include the use of reuse water, in addition to the application of 2,000 liters of detergent and 500 liters of eucalyptus essence.

The operation, in the form of the Réveillon, will begin at 0h Saturday, day 2, and will proceed until Sunday night, day 3. In all, removal tractors, sand sifting tractors, mini sifting machines, mechanical shovels, dump trucks, compactor trucks, large sweepers, mini sweepers and electric cart will be mobilized, as well as blowers and costal sprayers.

To reinforce the adequate waste disposal, 2,000 containers of 240 liters and another 250 of large capacity will be installed, with 1,200 liters, distributed in the sand strip and on the boardwalk of Avenida Atlântica. In addition, each of the three medical stations set up by the Municipal Health Department — located on Princesa Isabel Avenue, Lido Square and Republic of Lebanon Street — will have the support of three of the Company's garis.

The main change for residents of Copacabana will be the suspension of regular garbage collection on Saturday night, day 2. The service will be carried out exceptionally on Sunday, day 3, starting at 19h, serving both residential buildings and commercial establishments.

The Company requests the collaboration of the population so that waste disposal is not done on the streets of the neighborhood on Saturday night, and should only occur at the beginning of Sunday night. To strengthen the orientation, informative materials will be distributed in buildings and shops in the region.

Municipal Health Department

To support the public, the Municipal Health Department of Rio will have a structure of three medical posts, similar to those used during the previous editions of “Every World in Rio”. The stations will be equipped and prepared for urgent and emergency care. The units, distributed by Avenida Atlântica, will operate from 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 2, until the end of the event, early Sunday, day 3.

The units will be installed on the corner with Princesa Isabel Avenue, in Lido Square and at the time of Rua República do Peru, and there will be area with resources for contingency in case of incidents with multiple victims. The stations will have a total of 36 beds, including six of advanced life support, to attend the most severe cases; in addition to 45 hydration armchairs. Health planning is aligned and approved with the Fire Department.

A total of 320 professionals will be in the health operation, with 110 in the posts (30 doctors, 28 nurses, 32 nursing technicians, 20 operational/administrative staff) and 120 more stretchers to look for people who need them in the public and take them to the medical station. Thirty ICU ambulances, manned by drivers, doctors and nurses, for a total of 90 professionals, will be ready to remove patients who need more complex resources in care. Municipal hospitals Miguel Couto and Souza Aguiar will receive reinforcement on duty and will be the main rear references. The Municipal Regulatory Centre will arrange the transfers.

In health promotion actions, VanBora, a mobile unit of the Municipal Health Secretariat, will be in Copacabana offering self-tests for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Forty health promoters will circulate near the beach with distribution of condoms, lubricant gel, temporary tattoos and giving guidance on disease prevention. Condoms will also be available in the kiosks and underground bathrooms of the waterfront.

The Municipal Institute of Sanitary Surveillance (IVISA-Rio) also prepared a work scheme to protect public health in the face of risks arising from the consumption of products and services subject to sanitary control. The body will carry out prior inspections and on the day of the event, guiding and monitoring the facilities and services suppliers of food and health to identify non-conformities and intervene, in a timely manner, by applying sanitary measures. It will also conduct a possible investigation of possible outbreaks, together with the Coordination of Strategic Health Surveillance Information (CIEVS).

In addition to the joint work with IVISA-Rio, the CIEVS will also perform prior to the event, monitoring the epidemiological scenario in the municipal, national and international sphere of the weeks prior to the event and adopting vector prevention, detection and control measures in the area of the waterfront by environmental surveillance. During the show, he will monitor the care at the medical stations and regulate patients to hospital units. After the event, it will continue to follow the epidemiological scenario for four weeks to detect possible situations of public health interest.

The Secretariat recommends that fans go to the show at Copacabana Beach that, if they are users of continuous-use medication, they do not stop taking their medication. It is also recommended to drink plenty of water, moderate the intake of alcoholic beverages, wear light clothing, pay attention to the use of cosmetic products/capillaries that may cause allergies, carry identity document and emergency contact phone.

COR-Rio

The Operations and Resilience Center will act with maximum capacity to monitor Atlantic Avenue, around the stage, as well as the rest of the waterfront and access routes to Copacabana. Of a total of 318 cameras in the neighborhood, 162 are installed on the shores of the beach of Copacabana and on nearby roads.

In order to speed up the integrated work of the teams of Prefeitura do Rio, COR-Rio will have an advanced base mounted at the time of Rua República do Peru, with operators dedicated exclusively to monitoring the show. The operation will also have 3 drones to monitor public displacement and mobility, as well as assisting the operation at points where there are no cameras.

Only in the concentration area of the public, near the stage mounted in front of the hotel Copacabana Palace, there will be 20 cameras for monitoring public movement, major blocking points and accesses to the site of the show.

The entire movement of people and the transit of vehicles in the region will be accompanied by a staff of approximately 100 operators on duty, in the Situation Room, in the headquarters of COR-Rio, in Cidade Nova, in front of the largest videowall in Latin America, 104 square meters, consisting of 125 screens of 55 inches. An exclusive layout for the event was developed for the screen in order to facilitate the work of the timers.

The Center for Operations and Resilience of Prefeitura do Rio is responsible for monitoring and optimizing the operation of the city on a daily basis, anticipating and managing crises in collaboration with other bodies, offering the citizen the prompt response to the occurrences of the city.

COR-Rio guides cariocas and visitors to follow through social networks, from the news channel of the Operations Center in WhatsApp and the COR application. River real-time information on traffic conditions, transport situation and weather forecast in Rio. In addition, digital panels distributed in urban furniture, public transport, airports, commercial buildings and malls will inform the public about the traffic restrictions scheduled for the day of the event.

Diversity

The Coordination of Sexual Diversity of the Civil House promotes on the eve and day of the show of the singer Shakira, the second edition of the campaign “Be yourself, without prejudice, in Rio”. The initiative is part of the Blitz Diversity project. Agents will promote awareness among the public, with the distribution of windscreens, adhesives and condoms, in addition to the dissemination of information about the rights of the LGBTQIA+ population.

On the day 01/05, eve of the show, the activities take place in the south, with the fixing of information plates and the distribution of condoms in commercial establishments. On 02/05, educators will act in two subway stations of Copacabana, distributing materials and dialoguing with the population.

The campaign highlights the importance of preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and aims to strengthen the position of Rio as a welcoming destination for everyone. The action also includes the dissemination of complaint channels and public reception services available in the city.