Before and after the live performance, followers might go to Adele World, a small theme park’s value of foods and drinks stands, two carnival rides, a second stage and a merchandise retailer the scale of an enormous boutique. (This additionally served to stagger the gang circulation, so it didn’t overwhelm the general public transportation system.) It was foolish, nevertheless it was foolish enjoyable: A bar for Adele (Aperol) Spritzes, a mocked-up biergarten, even a stand for spätzle. It all created a pleasant sense of event. These exhibits have been an enormous deal, however a venue that depends a lot on public transportation isn’t fitted to tailgating. If you’re going to reach early, why not take a trip on a Ferris wheel?

“Hello” is the apparent opener — “I’m always going to start with ‘Hello,’” she instructed Oprah Winfrey a number of years in the past. But Adele kicked the present into excessive gear with the second track, “Rumor Has It,” which confirmed off what the video display might do. As Adele belted out considered one of her strongest songs, the display lit up behind her — actually, the whole sky appeared to mild up behind her — with graphics that evoked tabloids. Sure, the imagery was apparent. But it was additionally as brash and in-your-face because the track itself. Unlike Adele’s Las Vegas present, which begins with the concentrate on her and regularly reveals bandmembers and backup singers, her Munich present will get huge quick. You might virtually really feel the video in your physique, the best way you might really feel the bass.

After “Rumor,” Adele took the temperature down a notch, admitting to nerves and asking the background singers to take the practice off of her costume, after it had gotten soaked. (It rained simply earlier than she obtained onstage.) Whatever nerves she may need felt, she certain gave the impression to be having a blast. After “Water Under the Bridge,” Adele even scored an help for the proposal of a pair within the crowd. “How long have you guys been together?” she requested. “17 years, f— me!” This is the sort of intimacy she delivers at her Las Vegas residency, and it shouldn’t work in a venue that’s virtually 20 occasions larger. But it did.

Every few songs, Adele went from larger-than-life diva to charismatic character. At one level, she introduced a 7-year-old child up onstage, alongside together with his older sister. His identify was Dion. “And how old are you, Dion?” Adele requested. “Good,” he replied. (He’s a second-language speaker — give him a break.) His sister instructed the singer how a lot she had loved ingesting in Adele World, the place she had spent the afternoon hanging out with followers from Liverpool. “How did you understand them?” Adele replied, with out lacking a beat. It introduced a refreshing lightness to a present that in any other case would have triggered sensory overload.

About midway by means of the present, Adele threw a curveball, scaling all the way down to carry out with solely her pianist, Eric Wortham II, on a mini-stage-style platform arrange between the standing-room first part and the seats within the second. The shifting of scale has turn out to be customary to the visible vocabulary of stadium exhibits, however the change was refreshing — right here was a lady and her pianist, performing far out into the gang, backed by a display that was unforgiving in its element. After mentioning that it was the primary of her songs that discovered an viewers in Germany, she sang “Make You Feel My Love,” a Bob Dylan cowl from her first album. (She doesn’t play that, together with “Chasing Pavements” and “All I Ask,” which adopted, in Las Vegas.) Suddenly, the gang grew quiet, with all eyes on her and, for a couple of minutes, the display didn’t appear to be such an enormous deal in any case.

Adele stayed on the platform however traded her pianist for a string part for “Skyfall,” the track she recorded for the James Bond movie of the identical identify. With her full band on the principle stage and string gamers sitting on the semicircular walkway that ran between there and the platform, it was a efficiency that demonstrated her energy in addition to her precision. It’s sky, it’s sea, it’s Bond, and with Adele’s hovering vocals the display loomed as massive because the sky itself. As she sang on the platform, columns of smoke rose round her. It as a Bond movie opening sequence dropped at life on a grand scale.

Where there’s smoke there’s fireplace. After a quick video interlude and a hair and make-up touch-up carried out at the hours of darkness, with the effectivity of a Formula 1 pit crew — it wasn’t typically seen however I used to be shut sufficient to the platform to see it — Adele launched right into a show-stopping efficiency of “Set Fire to the Rain.” There was no water, as in Vegas, however there was loads of it on video, and there have been bursts of actual fireplace — you might really feel the warmth. It was bigger than life.

Part of Adele’s genius is her means to puncture her personal pomp, and at occasions, the present drifted into Andy Kaufman absurdity. At one level, Adele learn out a seat quantity and mentioned there was an envelope taped to the underside with 50 Euros. (This was a lot funnier than it seems in print.) And as she does in Las Vegas, Adele makes use of a “T-shirt gun” to fireplace souvenirs into the gang. Pop, one missed the mark. Pop, one other got here nearer. The vastness of the venue put a damper on the anticipation of catching one, however her sheer pleasure at enjoying with this toy was contagious, and that was the true level. If one of the well-known folks on the planet can have a lot enjoyable firing a contraption loaded with T-shirts, you rattling properly higher smile, too.

“When We Were Young” used the display creatively, as giant-images scrolled by, surrounded by a border that evoked analog movie. It’s a wise visible pun, delivered on the dimension of a constructing — childhood pictures the scale of automobiles and homes. Then: Confetti. But not simply any confetti — confetti of paper made to appear like outdated Polaroids. They considered every thing.

What different track might finish the present? After thanking the viewers, in addition to the promoters behind the present — “I’d only trust the Germans with this,” she mentioned of the formidable logistics points — Adele tore right into a hovering cowl of her most upbeat track. It was punctuated with extra confetti, plus fireworks — not a fast burst of them, however a severe show. Most acts would have been buried underneath the sturm und drang, however Adele’s musicians and her voice appeared to go along with it effective. By then, she had been transferring, nervous, humorous, touching and humorous once more. She was entitled to triumph and this was it.