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Céline Dion Returns with Emotional Paris Residency Kickoff
Confirmed
In Short: Céline Dion kicked off her long-awaited comeback with a sold-out concert at the Paris La Défense Arena, delighting fans and setting the stage for a 26-show residency.
The success of the first show led to the announcement of additional 10 shows scheduled for May 2027, which have also sold out. In the meantime, fans who missed out on tickets have not been left out entirely. Events honouring Dion's comeback have dominated Paris, with tribute boat cruises on the Seine featuring costume contests, sing-alongs, and DJ sets happening throughout September.
Dion's comeback show was part of a larger resurgence, following her last full concert in 2020 before the pandemic cut her tour short. In 2024, she performed just one song at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony. The Canadian icon will continue her Paris residency throughout September and October and into the New Year, with the shows running until early 2024.
What's confirmed
- The success of the first show led to the announcement of additional 10 shows scheduled for May 2027, which have also sold out. In the meantime, fans who missed out on tickets have not been left out entirely. Events honouring Dion's comeback have dominated Paris, with tribute boat cruises on the Seine featuring costume contests, sing-alongs, and DJ sets happening throughout September.
- Dion's comeback show was part of a larger resurgence, following her last full concert in 2020 before the pandemic cut her tour short. In 2024, she performed just one song at the Paris Olympics closing ceremony. The Canadian icon will continue her Paris residency throughout September and October and into the New Year, with the shows running until early 2024.
What's still developing
- Saturday marked the first of Dion's 26-show residency at the Paris La Défense Arena, Europe's largest covered concert arena. 'She's back': Fans dance, sing and cry after Céline Dion's comeback concert in Paris "I made a promise," she told the Paris audience of about 30,000 people in her emotional return.
- Sarah Leavitt, reporting from Paris for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), external, said the crowd "was left without words" by the stunning performance.
- Dion also "endeared herself" to the crowd by saying during one song that she wanted to stop and start over.
- Watch: Céline Dion duets with young fan ahead of comeback concert When Dion announced the first leg of her Paris residency back in March, nine million fans signed up for early access tickets to the concerts, French outlet FRI reported.
- Iconic Canadian pop singer Céline Dion has kicked off her long-awaited comeback show in Paris on Saturday, after a six-year hiatus due to health issues.
- The show started 47 minutes late and ran to 11:14 p.m. local time, close to two and a half hours.
- “I Feel Love,” “Sweet Dreams” and a reworked “I’m Alive” showed a looser, more playful Dion than the balladeer many had come expecting.
- The Canadian icon launched her 26-night Paris residency with a 29-song, two-and-a-half-hour comeback that moved from intimate French ballads to an a cappella "All by Myself." Céline Dion returned to the stage on Saturday night (Sept.