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Watch Céline Dion Deliver Moving Speech on Opening Night of Paris Residency: "I Made a Promise to Be Back on Stage, so Here I Am"
- Céline Dion returned to the stage on September 12, 2026, with a 26-night residency at Paris's Plenitude Arena after a six-year concert hiatus caused by her 2022 stiff-person syndrome diagnosis.
- During her emotional concert, Dion thanked fans and shared that she had promised to come back on stage, singing for both herself and her audience despite health challenges.
- She wore several custom couture outfits from top Paris fashion designers, including Dior, Alaïa, Schiaparelli, Givenchy, and Tom Ford, reflecting the city's fashion heritage throughout the show.
- Dion spoke openly about managing her stiff-person syndrome, expressing acceptance of her illness as her reason for living and encouraging celebration and joy despite hardships.
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Dion opened the show visibly excited and in tears with his classic nineties French ballad, "On ne change pas"
Six years later, Céline Dion sings again for an entire concert. On Saturday, September 12, the Canadian star returned to the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, at the gates of Paris, opening with emotion her new series of live: "I made a promise, I came back." It is the first complete show since 2020, after the diagnosis in 2022 of the syndrome of the rigid person, rare neurological disease that can cause stiffness and muscle spasms. In 2024 she had a…
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