Concert residency in Paris 2026/2027! *Spoilers*

[jpatdeleon09]

What do u think with the song “How Does A Moment Last Forever”, with a toned down version like Courage. More intimate feeling, piano and strings.. more soft singing like more on the feels instead of power vocals. 

[Macaronie]

On 10/1/2026 at 7:26 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

What do u think with the song “How Does A Moment Last Forever”, with a toned down version like Courage. More intimate feeling, piano and strings.. more soft singing like more on the feels instead of power vocals. 

N.o. 

This song should be burned and banned forever 

[jpatdeleon09]

Céline Dion: her concerts in Paris "a little too long"? His pianist warns: there are "little things that are planned, maybe a surprise or two"

 

https://www.closermag.fr/people/celine-dion-ses-concerts-a-paris-un-peu-trop-longs-son-pianiste-previent-il-y-a-des-petites-choses-qui-se-planifient-peut-etre-une-surprise-ou-deux-3661308?utm_source=Twitter_Nonli&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nonli

[jpatdeleon09]

On 10/1/2026 at 2:51 PM, Macaronie said:

N.o. 

This song should be burned and banned forever 

Why? It’s a great song 😂

If I ever to choose which song should be burned and banned forever. It’s the “SUPERWOMAN”. The very first line is very irritating.. ARE YOU EXSHPECHING, SOME KIND OF PERFECT PERFECTION. What more if the impressionist heard this song. They will overly exagge it for sure!

Edited October 1, 2026 at 07:04 AM by jpatdeleon09

[Tyler1991]

On 10/1/2026 at 2:26 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

What do u think with the song “How Does A Moment Last Forever”, with a toned down version like Courage. More intimate feeling, piano and strings.. more soft singing like more on the feels instead of power vocals. 

I'd prefer to hear Ashes over How Does A Moment Last Forever. 

[jpatdeleon09]

On 10/1/2026 at 3:27 PM, Tyler1991 said:

I'd prefer to hear Ashes over How Does A Moment Last Forever. 

I want Ashes too

[jpatdeleon09]

Adriana Lima’s review for her first time ever Celine Dion concert

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd7bGaTIjPl/?stkn=eGJ0czNyOGFlMGVl

[lyn]

Ooh video from right in the middle of the L’oreal celebrity crush circle!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd51T3cqiiu/?stkn=cjMxNWp4bGQ4NXV2 

[mirage]

On 10/1/2026 at 8:56 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

Céline Dion: her concerts in Paris "a little too long"? His pianist warns: there are "little things that are planned, maybe a surprise or two"

 

https://www.closermag.fr/people/celine-dion-ses-concerts-a-paris-un-peu-trop-longs-son-pianiste-previent-il-y-a-des-petites-choses-qui-se-planifient-peut-etre-une-surprise-ou-deux-3661308?utm_source=Twitter_Nonli&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Nonli

I would loved to see a glimpse of their sessions together in Vegas. They always say how creative she is, and it would be so amazing to see the creative brain she has, instead of the performer.

[mirage]

On 10/1/2026 at 1:10 AM, anewdayhascome said:

DEAL! (I already mentioned that in a letter😈)

Next time we should bring our speakers to the hotel and play some b sides and sing them for her. Imagine No Living Without Loving You and she 'performs' it outside the hotel.

I'm a bit tired of PQTME being sung all the time (i get it though), it was fun to see D'amour ou d'amitié yesterday.

[Celinemaniac]

I am sharing here a nice article written about Céline's return in one of the largest Greek newspapers. (Thanks to ChatGPT for sitting down and translating it so nicely for me - well, I hope. 🙂 )

 

 

CÉLINE DION: THE GRAND ENCORE IN PARIS

Céline Dion has returned to the stage, unleashing a storm of excitement. Sold-out shows, crowds outside her hotel and a devotion that goes beyond nostalgia for her beloved ballads. How did the diva we once loved to mock become the woman everyone now wants to celebrate?

 

Kostas Bourousis

TO VIMA | September 28, 2026

 

Céline Dion has just taken off her slippers. She is standing on top of a parked car outside her hotel in Paris, singing “Pour que tu m’aimes encore” along with her fans, the song playing through a speaker. She is wearing loose trousers and a jacket, moving to the rhythm, laughing, gesturing as though conducting an improvised choir.

Around her, mobile phones are recording the scene. We are immediately after her September 18 concert, the second in a row in the City of Light, and she clearly has no intention of retreating just yet.

The scene above could be one of the hundreds of viral videos people watch while scrolling almost absent-mindedly until their thumb commands the next one. Except that this particular woman has built a different kind of relationship with her audience—and with its attention, now the hardest currency in the world of show business. For decades, Céline Dion captivated crowds by singing. Passionately, heartbreakingly, sometimes almost excessively lyrically. Now, all she has to do is step outside her hotel.

What is truly fascinating about the video, which was shared with extraordinary intensity, is the sense that her own happiness seems to be directed personally at the people surrounding her. As though someone very familiar and very dear to them were returning to work. It is an odd impression given the stature and image of one of the world's most successful singers, whose life has little in common with that of the people waiting for her on a Paris pavement. And yet the distance between Dion and her audience has now narrowed remarkably.

 

A DIVA WITHOUT APOLOGIES

The buzz surrounding Céline Dion's triumphant return, as it is proving to be, can be measured in numbers. Around 30,000 spectators attended her opening night on September 12 at Paris's Plenitude Arena in Nanterre. It was the singer's first full concert since March 2020, with 25 songs performed with emotion over two hours and fifteen minutes. Her 16 autumn shows, which have evidently sold like hot cakes, will be followed by another ten next May.

According to the Spanish newspaper El País, around 9 million people rushed to register for access to the ticket presale—as though almost the entire population of Greece had joined an online queue for what, in such cases, is customarily described as a “magic” little ticket.

It would be misplaced, and probably rather amusing, to interpret this mass mobilization as the sudden or belated discovery of an underrated artist. Dion has, after all, travelled an extraordinary road from Charlemagne, Quebec, where she was born as the fourteenth—and youngest—child in her family, to her Eurovision victory in 1988 and her English-language recording career, beginning with Unison in 1990. Not long afterwards, she became the singer whose voice it was almost impossible to escape. Above all, after the soundtrack to Titanic.

Yes, Céline had a massive and passionate audience long before she acquired the cultural acceptance she enjoys today. People bought her records, paid hefty prices for tickets, swore by her voice and knew her songs inside out.

Yet the Canadian singer now seems to matter even to those who might once have considered her too commercial, too emotional, too mainstream for their tastes. People who may never have had one of her songs saved to a playlist now stop, look, listen and become moved. Or at least they try to understand exactly what they had been missing all those—many—years.

 

WHEN EMOTION OVERFLOWED

For years, Dion was an easy answer to the question of what was considered bad taste in pop music. Her voice had always been very big. Her ballads were too dramatic. Her performances were too emotionally charged. Emotion, in general, was served in quantities capable of causing discomfort to those who prefer their feelings expressed with a certain degree of discretion. They were not entirely wrong. A woman singing about a breakup as though the Earth's rotation depended on it is, to say the least, an easy target for ironic commentary—provided, of course, that you have not just gone through a breakup yourself.

The discussion became so intense at times that, in 2007, Canadian music critic Carl Wilson devoted an entire book to her, with the highly descriptive title Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. Starting from his own difficulty in loving Dion, he set out to discover what her fans found in her and what our aesthetic judgments reveal about ourselves. Because even the pronouncement that something is in bad taste can function as a convenient way of declaring where one belongs. Or, rather, where one does not want to belong.

In Céline Dion's musical world, love is entitled—or, better still, obliged—to be excessive, and loneliness comes accompanied by a full orchestra. Let us recall a few examples. “All by Myself” does not exactly lend itself to emotional restraint. Neither does “My Heart Will Go On.”

This lack of restraint can exhaust one listener and relieve another. There is also the power of repetition over time. A song you once heard far too often may, thirty years later, carry an entire period of your life within it. Nostalgia has this peculiar quality: it does not bring back only the things we carefully chose; it also brings back the things that simply happened to be there.

 

REINVENTING CÉLINE

The transformation of her image had begun long before today's comeback. In 2017, the American Vogue was already documenting her renewed presence in fashion and pop culture. Among her most characteristic appearances was an oversized Vetements sweatshirt featuring Titanic. The singer who had become more closely identified with the film's musical melodrama than almost anyone else was now walking around wearing it. And she seemed to be enjoying herself.

The detail mattered. Dion had decided to play with—or even dismantle—the mythology surrounding her herself. She could be spectacular, funny, excessive and quite possibly aware—despite her claims that she did not pay attention to the comments—of the jokes and mockery directed at her. The seriousness with which she approached singing did not require her to take every comment made about her with the same solemnity.

Naturally, there was professional thinking behind the transformation as well. Stylist Law Roach also explained, in the British edition of Vogue, that he had devised a strategy to make people see the singer differently and help her attract a new generation of fans. He also described how much pleasure she derived from engaging with clothes during a period of mourning, when fashion served simultaneously as work and as an emotional release.

And so another route to Céline was created. You could encounter her in a photograph before ever hearing one of her records. You could be interested in her presence without having a strong opinion about her ballads. After all, an image spreads faster than four decades of recorded music. And the personality that emerged from it possessed enough interest, humour and a subtly playful quality to make you stop and give her a second look.

 

THE PERSONAL TRAUMAS WE “LOVED”

The sense of familiarity people developed with Dion unquestionably had another point of origin as well. For years, the public watched a personal life that was closely intertwined with her professional one. René Angélil became her manager when she was twelve. Their romantic relationship came later, followed by marriage in 1994, and together they had three sons.

When he died in 2016, Dion lost both her husband and the person who had played a decisive role in building her career. Those who had grown up with her songs knew the basic chapters of this story. They watched the singer go through experiences that, under entirely different circumstances, they could recognize in their own lives. It is well known that celebrity does not spare anyone grief, nor does it abolish it. It simply adds spectators.

In December 2022, the announcement that she had been diagnosed with Stiff-Person Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, changed the context even more dramatically. Two years later, Irene Taylor's documentary I Am: Celine Dion recorded Dion's struggle to sing, as well as a painful episode involving spasms. Such exposure was unusual for a star of her stature. The most difficult aspect of the image was the overturning of a certainty.

Dion had built her professional identity around her ability to deliver nothing less than the demanding, the spectacular, the climax everyone expected, every time. Suddenly, even her ability to sing was uncertain. The viewer was being asked to look differently at someone they had grown accustomed to “consuming” as a given. That adds weight to today's return.

At the same time, turning her into a permanent symbol of courage would be yet another way of confining her to a role. She remains a singer, a professional, a woman with humour and ambition. She has every right to want to impress. To make fashion. To laugh on top of a car without every one of her movements necessarily becoming a life lesson.

 

AN ECONOMY OF ITS OWN

On July 26, 2024, her performance of Édith Piaf's “Hymne à l'amour” from the Eiffel Tower at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games intensified anticipation of a possible return to active performing. With Paris as her backdrop, she decided to make her full comeback two years later.

In her recent interview with Harper's Bazaar, Dion described the intensive rehabilitation, vocal therapy and physical preparation that were required for this much-discussed comeback. On the positive side, she and her team possessed unparalleled expertise in staging large-scale spectacles: her two residencies at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, between 2003–2007 and 2011–2019, drew more than 4.5 million spectators across 1,141 performances.

Céline Dion knows the model well: the artist settles in one place and people travel to meet her. The journey, the hotel, the anticipation become part of the concert—or, better still, part of the experience before the first note is even heard.

A similarly organized economy now operates around her return. In a report, Le Monde found Céline Dion T-shirts selling for €125 and boxes of four macarons bearing her name for €25, while Choose Paris Region, the official body responsible for the economic and tourism development of the Paris region, estimated the potential economic activity generated by the singer's performances at €500–800 million. Even emotion can be turned into gift packaging. Especially when there is such a willing—and, above all, emotionally receptive—customer base.

Of course, T-shirts may serve as proof that devotion has been successfully monetized, but the real question is how that devotion was forged and magnified. Céline Dion has successively been the singer you heard everywhere, the one you might once have been embarrassed to admit you liked, and the woman you found yourself anxiously watching as she attempted to sing again. Today, all these versions coexist on the Paris stage.

And she herself seems comfortable enough with all of them to take off her slippers and climb onto a car. The rest of us can continue debating good and bad taste. She is already singing the chorus.

 

 

[LeChauffeur100]

On 10/1/2026 at 7:26 AM, mirage said:

Next time we should bring our speakers to the hotel and play some b sides and sing them for her. Imagine No Living Without Loving You and she 'performs' it outside the hotel.

I'm a bit tired of PQTME being sung all the time (i get it though), it was fun to see D'amour ou d'amitié yesterday.

We should bring a bit speaker and a mic and then say some things to her.

"Celine, please tell your manager that your fans are craving a live release of the current residency and the 2016 Summer Tour!"

"Celine, please sing Then You Look at Me!"

"Celine, tell us more about Play Me Like a Love Song!"

[KyleVan41]

I received my event travel final notices etc and voucher for hotel but it says tickets will arrive 7 days before my show; for those of you used event travel does the email wiht the tickets come exactly 7 days before show ? Is it easy to open? I’m not quite 7 days but close !

[Alex_Incognito]

On 10/1/2026 at 1:37 PM, KyleVan41 said:

I received my event travel final notices etc and voucher for hotel but it says tickets will arrive 7 days before my show; for those of you used event travel does the email wiht the tickets come exactly 7 days before show ? Is it easy to open? I’m not quite 7 days but close !

It'll be a PDF that comes directly from Plénitude Arena.  Mine arrived probably a week before.

[lyn]

On 10/1/2026 at 7:21 AM, Celinemaniac said:

A woman singing about a breakup as though the Earth's rotation depended on it

Love it lol. What a great article thank you!! I so want Carl Wilson to write a follow up...

[jpatdeleon09]

“How did the diva we once loved to mock become the woman everyone now wants to celebrate?”

 

love this!

[Nmj]

On 10/1/2026 at 8:17 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

“How did the diva we once loved to mock become the woman everyone now wants to celebrate?”

 

love this!

Not everyone “mocked” her. Someone of us were fans when she was relentlessly mocked and some of us were even mocked for fans. 👋🏽 

[phillippeoreilly]

Honestly, don't worry about Event Travel - it was an incredibly smooth experience from start to end and the communication was great too.

For those that are looking premium options, the arena itself has ticket packages available - including private box access (for as little as one person). Its expensive, but its an option....

Currently around 1600 euro for VIP hospitality and a seat in section B on the floor and 1100 euro for a seat in a Box 207 including hospitality... This is for the final night in May 2027. I wish I had more money than sense, but I just can't justify those prices. Maybe opening night will have to remain my special memory.

https://www.plenitudearena.com/evenement/concert-celine-dion-toutes-les-offres-premium/?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=52577979530694&utm_content=52584349496494&utm_term=52584349495894&utm_campaign=52577979530694&fbclid=IwY2xjawUrLpRleHRuA2FlbQEwAHBkb2YFYWRpZAAAL9M_fDu-c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHof6-q8-qQbijsOof1dJU-3pfmixhYv4mNZ_7xTjLBnTRFj8Tpp81GoeNFVy_aem_7Nn3peuRpMwBiIHzAKHDMA 

Edited October 1, 2026 at 12:30 PM by phillippeoreilly

[lyn]

On 10/1/2026 at 8:19 AM, Nmj said:

Not everyone “mocked” her. Someone of us were fans when she was relentlessly mocked and some of us were even mocked for fans. 👋🏽 

Yeah this has been a very interesting personal growth journey for me haha, mirroring Celine's self acceptance. Thanks to when I started being a fan, I have some unfortunately core memories of being mocked at 10 years old for my extremely atypical interests in a sea of spice girls and backstreet boys and eminem... and I've very consciously hidden away that (and many other 'excessive' personal traits) into adult life. My persona on this forum would shock the average person I know in real life lol.

To then meet some of you over the last few weeks, and express and deeply share that side in person, and then to tentatively share with others what I was really doing in Paris and have that not only be not laughed at but celebrated,.. has frankly been downright therapeutic lol. ❤️ 

Edited October 1, 2026 at 12:33 PM by lyn

[delta]

On 01/10/2026 at 13:27, LeChauffeur100 said:

On devrait apporter un petit haut-parleur et un micro, puis lui dire quelques choses.

« Céline, dis à ta manager que tes fans réclament une sortie live de la résidence actuelle et de la tournée d’été 2016 ! »

« Céline, s’il te plaît, chante Then You Look at Me ! »

« Céline, parle-nous plus de Play Me Like a Love Song ! »

tres bonne idee pour votre dernier souhait 

[Abodi2002]

No videos or audio of yesterday's show still?

[jpatdeleon09]

Francois civil came!! I know him from one of my fave horror film “As Above, So Below” turns out he is a celine fan! He saw him twice! In paris concert and in l’oreal show

https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd8UrLHDJOM/?img_index=6&stkn=M3JrdHc3NjdnNnN6

[jpatdeleon09]

The siblings! They are really a celine fan  here’s frankie grande

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Dd6nWxVMWQc/?stkn=MWhhanR2dXJwanloOQ==

Edited October 1, 2026 at 01:50 PM by jpatdeleon09

[jpatdeleon09]

Some who went to Celine’s paris concert are not even a fan but…

You have to see it for them to understand US 👌🏼😁

[Squall]

On 10/1/2026 at 1:26 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

What do u think with the song “How Does A Moment Last Forever”, with a toned down version like Courage. More intimate feeling, piano and strings.. more soft singing like more on the feels instead of power vocals. 

I really don't like that song. It's way too wordy. 

Love pays no mind to desolation
It flows like a river through the soul
Protects, proceeds, and perseveres
And makes us whole

Awful

[Nmj]

On 10/1/2026 at 10:28 AM, Squall said:

I really don't like that song. It's way too wordy. 

Love pays no mind to desolation
It flows like a river through the soul
Protects, proceeds, and perseveres
And makes us whole

Awful

😂 

Barnev needs his BATB moment. They should let him sing HDAMLF solo. 🤣 

[jpatdeleon09]

On 10/1/2026 at 10:28 PM, Squall said:

I really don't like that song. It's way too wordy. 

Love pays no mind to desolation
It flows like a river through the soul
Protects, proceeds, and perseveres
And makes us whole

Awful

I kinda like the toned down version of alan menken - that is what’s on my mind for Celine to sing. Not big vocals. Pure emotion. Soft singing. 
 

also this

Imagine how can scott can make this with better arrangement with strings and all..

funny that some didn’t like the courage song before but with this new arrangement more toned down. Everyone likes it. Some even got emotional hearing it

Edited October 1, 2026 at 02:39 PM by jpatdeleon09

[Nmj]

On 10/1/2026 at 10:28 AM, jpatdeleon09 said:

Some who went to Celine’s paris concert are not even a fan but…

You have to see it for them to understand US 👌🏼😁

He’s a fan but he thinks there still a stigma behind being “a fan”. 🤣 

[Squall]

I would rather forget that live action Beauty and the Beast movie exists. Along with just about all the other live action remakes.

[jpatdeleon09]

On 10/1/2026 at 10:33 PM, Nmj said:

He’s a fan but he thinks there still a stigma behind being “a fan”. 🤣 

Love that he enjoys it. It’s really better to experience a celine dion concert.