Heaven, Earth, and the Stage Between: Rosalía Brings LUX to Monterrey
- Valentina Reyes
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On August 19, Spanish singer-songwriter Rosalía brought her highly acclaimed LUX Tour to Arena Mon
terrey in Monterrey, Mexico. One of the summer’s biggest musical events in the city, the two-hour show filled the arena with fans for an evening of music, dance, and storytelling. With grandeur, theatricality, drama, and art woven into every moment, Rosalía transformed the massive venue into something remarkably intimate—leaving nothing on the stage but herself and a world entirely of her own making.
Though the tour features no openers, there is not a single moment of silence that needs to be filled by anyone other than Rosalía and her passionate fans. Dressed in white and decked out in album-specific looks, a legion of Rosalía fans filled the arena with signs, gifts, and fan projects, eager to show the artist and her team just how much the night—and her music—meant to them.
Reflecting the four movements of 2025’s LUX, the show was divided into four acts, each marking a distinct transformation in Rosalía’s sound and performance. The night began with a ballet overture that established the world of LUX, before moving through increasingly energetic and electronically driven moments. The third act brought a confessional quality to the stage, with a softer acoustic palette that stripped down the spectacle, while the final intermezzo gradually built toward the show’s climactic finale.
At its core, the show was ambitious and maximalist, with a stage design that reflected the artistic world through which Rosalía was about to take fans. Beginning with two large white canvas curtains, the performance quickly became a masterclass in treating music as art and art as a deeply human experience. Every visual, movement, and sound feels deliberate, creating a world that is grand and intimate simultaneously and allows Rosalía to blur the boundaries between concert, performance art, and theatre.
Despite the scale of the production, the stage never felt overcrowded. With the dancers, the accompanying orchestra, the cinematography and lighting, and Rosalía herself, there was little need for distracting production. Every element onstage served a purpose, allowing the creative team behind the LUX Tour to bring one of the year’s biggest albums to life without overwhelming the artist at its center. Instead, the production knew when to step back and let Rosalía command the stage.
Perhaps one of the greatest challenges the public imagined for Rosalía was bringing the orchestral core of the album to stages around the world and making it engaging enough for the spectators of each show. Though LUX demonstrated Rosalía’s experimental nature better than any of her records before, many were curious how she would bridge the worlds of her previous albums to that of LUX. Rather than leaving her past behind, Rosalía allowed it to coexist with her newest musical world, weaving songs from 2022’s MOTOMAMI and 2017’s Los Ángeles into the orchestral and theatrical language of LUX. Every creative decision and performance became another chapter in Rosalía’s larger artistic language, one that pushes beyond the boundaries of music and album eras to explore something far more universal: the complexity of being human and the ways we search for the spiritual through sound.
The boundary-breaking pop star enlisted The Heritage Orchestra, conducted by Yudania Gómez Heredia, to show the world that LUX was never meant to be contained by the confines of a record. For every fan who walked out of the arena that night—or any night of the tour—LUX ceased to be merely an album; it became an experience that would permanently alter the way its music was heard. Rosalía had transformed listening into witnessing, turning an album into something lived rather than simply heard—and that may be the tour’s greatest accomplishment.
The LUX Tour is the pop star’s newest effort to show the world that she is not here to reinvent what has already been done, but to present something entirely new. Rosalía’s world-building is the kind of work that will be studied for years to come because it refuses to limit itself to something easily digestible. For new and longtime fans alike, the LUX Tour presents Rosalía at her best: deeply referential, endlessly curious, and uninterested in shaping her music around anything other than her own artistic instincts.
She is not performing with the expectation of sold-out venues—which she has achieved—nor of an audience that can sing every word back to her, though fans do so even in languages they may not understand. Instead, she seems to be inviting her audience into the way she experiences the world: feeling every emotion through music, translating every thought into performance, and allowing the complexity of both to exist without explanation.
By the time the final notes of LUX faded, Rosalía had done more than bring an ambitious album to the stage—she had expanded its universe. That Wednesday night in Monterrey, the crowd showed Rosalía just how much they had missed her in the four years since her last visit. They clapped along to the rhythms of rumba, jumped with every beat drop, cheered as she took two tequila shots onstage, and cried and danced with her as though they were sharing the stage. There was not a seat in the house untouched by the artist’s talent, authenticity, and presence. What makes the LUX Tour so powerful is that, for those two hours, thousands of people were given permission to experience music not as something to consume, but as something to believe in.
Rosalía performing “LA FAMA” by Valentina Reyes Rosalía by Valentina Reyes
