Emei @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR

Oct 12

October 2nd 2026: Emei, Madeline @ Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR

Emei | Photo Courtesy of: Christina Hall

Crowds showed up early to the Wonder Ballroom in Portland, Oregon, and concert etiquette was at an all-time high, with many of the younger audience members up front. Anxiously awaiting the second night of Emei’s Night at the Opera to start.

Madeline opened the night with an incredibly girly, cutesy, and well-polished set. Engaging the crowd with many props and playful songs. Not long after, two dancers with masks took to the stage in what seemed like a reference to the Bian Lian, a masked dance from her Chinese descent. This played well into the tour’s namesake and the theatrical theme of the night. This led into a very high-energy beginning of the set, with fans stimming from excitement, jumping, waving, dancing, and singing along. Later in her set, she surprised the crowd by moving to the back stairs to the balcony; everyone sat on the floor as she sang a few slower-paced songs, including Ginger Tea, dedicated to her grandmother, who passed a couple of years ago. The artist sang an unreleased song that felt like a Disney pop song about how things are going well, but life tells you, “nope,” and also Molly, which was released the night before. After pausing to give affirmations to the crowd, the new fans’ awaited song, Scatterbrain, from the viral show Off Campus, was performed. The high energy went all the way through the end of the night, and fans kept up the entire way.