Celine Dion Makes Long-Awaited Return To Stage After Six Years
The sell-out show opened a 26-date residency after Dion returned from years battling Stiff Person Syndrome.
- On Saturday, Celine Dion returned to the stage, performing her first full concert in six years at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, moving a crowd of 30,000 fans including US former first lady Michelle Obama.
- Dion's comeback follows years battling Stiff Person Syndrome, an autoimmune condition causing severe muscle stiffness and spasms. Revealed in 2022, the disorder forced show cancellations, which she combated by training "like an athlete."
- Thousands of fans celebrated throughout Paris, including a "Giant Karaoke" event at the Rotonde Stalingrad monument on Friday. Elisabeth Landry, a 38-year-old Quebecer, called the experience "unreal" as admirers gathered near the Arc de Triomphe.
- "The path was rockier than expected," Dion said, opening with "On ne change pas." She told the audience, "Tonight, I want to sing for you, sing for myself, sing for life."
- This concert launches a 26-date run, continuing her legacy as one of the best-selling artists with around 260 million albums sold. Her return echoes her 2024 Paris Olympics performance, where she sang "Hymn to Love" from the Eiffel Tower.
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After six years of absence, Céline Dion returned triumphantly to the stage in Paris, in a night full of excitement that marks the beginning of a series of 26 concerts that will give exclusively in the French capital, the first between September and October and another ten in May 2027. 'I had promised not to cry, I do not keep my promises', exclaimed
"We don't change", "All by Myself", "So that you still love me"... Boiled by her return to the stage after six years of absence, Celine Dion chained the tubes Saturday night for the kick-off of her series of concerts near Paris, a renaissance after years marked by illness.
The artist had long suffered from the rare autoimmune disease of Celine Dion with tears in front of thousands of fans at the first in a long time concert in Paris. The artist returned to the stage after taking a pause in 2022 because of a rare neurological disease. More specifically, Wave RBC.UA wrote about it. "I promised myself not to cry." At the first moments of the concert, Dion couldn't stop crying. "I promised myself not to cry. But I was…
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