{"id":598765,"date":"2026-09-13T05:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598765\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T05:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T05:18:11","slug":"tearful-celine-dion-performs-on-stage-for-first-time-in-more-than-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/598765\/","title":{"rendered":"Tearful C\u00e9line Dion performs on stage for first time in more than six years"},"content":{"rendered":"

C\u00e9line Dion was tearful in Paris during her first on-stage performance in more than six years, after taking a break for health reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI made a promise. I made a promise to come back and to be back on stage. Here I am singing for you, and singing for me. Thank you so very much for your support, your patience. I am everything I am because you love me,” she told the sold-out crowd.<\/p>\n

She said it was “amazing we are all together”.<\/p>\n

Her last full performance was during her Courage Tour in 2020, but the 2022 North American leg was cancelled when the singer was diagnosed<\/a> with stiff person syndrome (SPS).<\/p>\n

The rare autoimmune neurological disorder often causes muscle stiffness and painful spasms, varying in severity, caused by the body mistakenly attacking healthy nerve cells.<\/p>\n

Following her diagnosis in 2022, the singer only made three brief performance appearances \u2013 in a virtual charity event for healthcare workers during Covid, the opening ceremony at the 2024 Summer Olympics<\/a>, and at the end of a fashion show in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. <\/p>\n

Dion told fans she “made a promise to come back”, and is scheduled to perform a residency in Paris’ Plenitude Arena between September 12, 2026 and May 29, 2027.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s performance in Paris marked the beginning of the 26 shows she was booked to perform in the arena, which increased from the initial 10 shows due to high demand.<\/p>\n

Dion first announced her return on her birthday this year at the end of March. More than nine million fans reportedly tried to buy tickets, which sold out within a few hours. <\/p>\n

She is expected to perform many hit songs during the residency, including Oscar- and Grammy-winning My Heart Will Go On, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now, The Power of Love, and Pour que tu m\u2019aimes encore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"C\u00e9line Dion was tearful in Paris during her first on-stage performance in more than six years, after taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,1745],"class_list":["post-598765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}