Celine Dion's Paris Comeback: A Stone-Scape Show of Emotion and Voice

After more than six years away from live performance, Celine Dion opened a Paris residency at Plenitude Arena with a four-act, stone-themed production that paired operatic grandeur with French and English hits. She navigated vulnerability and power, tears and triumph, delivering intimate moments (even forgetting a lyric, then laughing and retrying) alongside show-stopping numbers like All By Myself, all within a scenic, fashion-forward staging by Willo Perron that blended stones, a gospel choir, and dance. The performance, set against her ongoing battle with stiff-person syndrome, read as a reclaiming of her body and life, with 26 planned Paris shows through 2027.