Rio Reveillon Copacabana New Year's Celebration
FiveCurrents celebrated New Year’s in Rio de Janeiro, producing Reveillon Copacabana. More than 2 million people gathered on Copacabana Beach to watch live entertainment and celebrate the New Year. The event included four stages filled with Brazilian pop, bossa nova, symphony and samba, and a “New Year’s Wishes” fireworks spectacular that was broadcast in more than 100 countries by TV Globo. The entire 5+ kilometer beach came under one 1000-speaker sound system to sync nine ocean barges in a spectacular 18,000-effect pyro display. The show had fireworks and music based on wishes for renewal, prosperity, peace, happiness, love, friends and family, country and the future. With more than 2 million people dressed in white, it was an incredible celebration of the hope of the New Year.
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