Pink brings her Summer Carnival to Gillette Stadium

Similar to last year’s shows at Fenway Park, this iteration of Pink’s “Summer Carnival” had different openers.

Pink performs her Summer Carnival tour at Gillette Stadium. Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff

Pink at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Wednesday, Aug. 21

Last year, Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Pink launched her “Summer Carnival” tour on June 7, 2023 — and it’s still going on. On Aug. 21 the artist brought her show to Gillette Stadium, a venue almost twice the size of Fenway Park, where she played two shows last summer.

The tour’s been racking up critical acclaim, and right now stands as the fifth highest-grossing tour by a woman of all time — it’s beat out only by Pink’s own “Beautiful Trauma” tour, along with tours by Madonna, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift.

Born Alecia Beth Moore, the singer brought the acrobatics and aerial stunts for which she’s known to her one-night-only show at Gillette in a performance that closely resembled 2023’s shows, which sold more than three million tickets worldwide across dates in North America, Europe, and Australia and supported her eighth studio album, 2023’s “Trustfall.” But this time, she had new openers.

OK, not completely new — DJ and producer KidCutUp joined again, pumping up the crowd before each set. Irish rock band The Script was the first opener, and singer/songwriter Sheryl Crow came on second, playing a set that was more rock and less pop than the flashiness to come. She did all her ‘90s and 2000s hits like “If It Makes You Happy,” “All I Wanna Do,” “Real Gone,” “Soak Up The Sun,” and “Everyday Is A Winding Road,” switching between bass and acoustic guitar and sporting sparkly pants and a sleek early ‘00s-esque bob.

Pink opened her set in true-to-herself fashion, flying down from the top of the stage in a harness for “Get The Party Started.” This number had everything — a sparkly bodysuit, a popstar microphone headset, backup dancers, and upside down singing, which is probably much harder than she makes it look.

She continued into a setlist that started off the same as last year’s. “Raise Your Glass” saw dancers playing with beach-themed paraphernalia and riding on scooters that looked like pool flamingos, and then she went into “Who Knew” and “Just Like A Pill.” “What About Us” was next, bringing out the firework displays early on. Pink had eight dancers and three backup singers, lending the show its carnival-ish, party atmosphere. Her sparkly costumes and huge stage props (like a fallen disco ball and an ice cream cone with spiked studs) helped, too.

“Turbulence” included choreography with aerial silks, which climaxed in Pink suspended by her ankles upside down above the audience — and still singing. She moved into a crowd work portion of the set here, showing off the down-the-earth personality for which she’s known and even passing candy out to the crowd. She sat down at the piano for a cover of Adele’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love.” “It’s a love song,” she said into the microphone, “so you know I didn’t write it.”

The 43-year-old singer went into “Just Give Me A Reason,” a duet she originally did with Fun.’s Nate Ruess, “F**kin’ Perfect,” and “Just Like Fire,” which she mashed up with “Heartbreaker.” While Pat Benatar isn’t touring with this year’s “Summer Carnival” (that was last year), they left in her hit anyway.

Pink costume-changed before “Please Don’t Leave Me” and opened the song with a beautiful a cappella bit with her singers, and brought out her 13-year-old daughter, Willow, for “Cover Me In Sunshine,” to much audience tenderness. “When I Get There” is “probably the saddest song I’ve ever written,” she said, explaining that it’s for “all of y’all who miss your people.”

She brought the energy back up as the set entered its home stretch with “I Am Here” and “What’s Up,” a 4 Non Blondes cover. The dancers and the acrobatics came back out for “Stay,” which Pink sang suspended in a cage, and “Trustfall,” which featured trampolines. During “Blow Me (One Last Kiss)” dancers came out as giant hot pink lips, and “Never Gonna Not Dance Again” cranked the party atmosphere all the way up.

“So What” was the closer, and just like in last year’s set, she harnessed up and flew around the stadium, getting close to almost everyone in the audience — even those in the nosebleeds.

After the show, the audience buzzed with energy as they made their way to the exits — and I don’t need to tell you what color everyone was wearing.