{"id":588457,"date":"2026-04-07T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:35:08","slug":"lady-gaga-cancels-montreal-show-due-to-respiratory-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/588457\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Gaga Cancels Montreal Show Due to Respiratory Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pop star called off the concert on doctor&#8217;s orders, and it&#8217;s unclear if she&#8217;ll still be able to play her other Mayhem Ball tour dates this week<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lady-gaga-mayhem-tour-grammys-cover-story-interview-1235460150\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Gaga<\/a> was forced to cancel her show in Montreal Monday night (April 6) due to an ongoing respiratory infection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a post shared on Instagram Stories yesterday, Gaga apologized for being \u201cunable to perform,\u201d writing, \u201cI\u2019ve been fighting a respiratory infection for the past few days and doing everything I can to rest and recover. But it\u2019s gotten worse. My doctor has strongly advised me not to perform today and to be honest I don\u2019t think I could give you the quality of a performance today that you deserve.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGaga was scheduled to play three shows at the Bell Centre in Montreal, with the first two shows taking place April 2 and 3. She has just three dates left on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-expands-mayhem-ball-tour-north-america-1235423870\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 leg<\/a> of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-live-reviews\/lady-gaga-mayhem-ball-concert-review-las-vegas-1235387712\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayhem Ball tour<\/a>, including gigs in Saint Paul, Minnesota this week (April 9 and 10) that \u2014 as of now \u2014 are still on. And she\u2019s still scheduled to wrap the run with a return to Madison Square Garden in New York City on April 13.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tSpeaking to fans in Montreal, Gaga said of the cancellation, \u201cI know how deeply disappointing this is. And I truly could not feel worse about letting you down. I\u2019m so sorry to everyone who made plans to be there and support me. Being in Montreal and performing for you on Thursday and Friday was magical and deeply meaningful. To everyone who was coming tonight, I\u2019m absolutely heartbroken and so sorry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tGaga has spent much of the past year on the road in support of her celebrated LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lady-gaga-mayhem-review-1235291651\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayhem<\/a>, which was released last March and recently won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lady-gaga-2026-grammys-performance-1235507597\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Grammy<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammys-2026-winners-list-1235508716\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Best Pop Vocal Album<\/a>. The record marked her first proper pop album since 2020\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lady-gaga-chromatica-review-1008302\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chromatica<\/a>, though she remained busy in the intervening years with a variety of projects including a second album with the late Tony Bennett (Love for Sale) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/lady-gaga-interview-harlequin-album-jazz-joker-1235109698\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlequin<\/a>, her companion album for Joker: Folie \u00e0 Deux.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Gaga\u2019s Mayhem era appears to be winding down, she\u2019s just teamed up with Doechii for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/doechii-lady-gaga-new-song-runway-devil-wears-prada-2-1235542571\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new song, \u201cRunway.\u201d <\/a>The track was penned for The Devil Wears Prada 2 and recently featured in the film\u2019s latest trailer.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pop star called off the concert on doctor&#8217;s orders, and it&#8217;s unclear if she&#8217;ll still be able&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,14851,2338],"class_list":{"0":"post-588457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-lady-gaga","11":"tag-montreal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}