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CONCERT IN LAS VEGAS
On August 18, 2013 Celine Dion performed at the Colosseum of the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, USA with her second residency show, "Celine". According to a fan who attended the show, during "Open arms" Celine killed it. It was definitely different from previous performances. She played around with her voice and the sound much more this time. She received a standing ovation for it. Celine also performed "(If you can´t sing it) You´ll have to swing it (Mr. Paganini)". People loved it and she was having a blast up there dancing and playing around. The scars and riffs were phenomenal.
CONCERT IN LAS VEGAS
On September 1, 2013 Celine Dion performed at the Colosseum of the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, USA with her second residency show, "Celine". This was the only show Celine performed on this month. Footage of the performance of the song "How do you keep the music playing?", could be seen thanks to a video taped by a fan who attended the show that night. On that song, Celine sings in duet with a hologram version of herself, and she comes down from the stage to sing next to the people in the audience.
CONCERT IN NEW YORK
On October 29, 2013 Celine Dion performed at the Edison Ballroom in New York, USA with a concert titled "An Intimate Evening With Celine Dion". Celine performed an intimate concert for Pandora Presents at Manhattan´s Edison Ballroom, attended mostly by Pandora listeners from the New York Tri-State area who´ve created a Celine Dion station or thumbed-up one of her songs. The invite-only audience was a noticeable fraction of the venue´s 1,200-person capacity, making it the smallest US concert Celine has performed in decades, if not ever. The gig was in support of new album "Loved Me Back To Life", but it was really a chance to showcase many of her biggest hits to a room full of hardcore fans who would never otherwise be within an un-zoomed Instagram´s distance from the diva. Celine opened with a one-two punch of "It´s all coming back to me now/The power of love" medley, immediately followed by other hits like the rarely performed "Where does my heart beat now" and the venerable "Because you loved me", during which Celine invited the crowd to join her on the last chorus. She unpacked a few of her Vegas theatrics later on for show staples like "River deep, mountain high" and her hit cover of Eric Carmen´s "All by myself", attacking each high note with an athletic precision. She Catholic-crossed herself with a fist at one point after nailing a particularly epic melodic lift, and pounded on an invisible drum kit for another, making liberal use of the diva finger wave for every melismatic phrase. Mid-way through the set, Celine thanked the crowd for supporting her over the years and being patient for "Loved Me Back To Life", her first English-language album in six years, prompting one fan to shout "That´s too long!". Celine politely retorted, in her welcoming French-Canadian inflection, "Well I had two babies and a French album and a Vegas show - I´ve been busy!". Celine played three selections from the album, including first single "Loved me back to life", whose Sia-penned vocal and lyrics were already a favorite among the crowd. Fans swayed their hands up and down during the dramatic chorus, a movement more common at a Skrillex show than something you´d expect from Celine. Next was her rendition of "Water and a flame", a duet originally recorded by Daniel Merriweather and Adele that Celine impressively turns into her own gin-soaked breakup ballad. A cover of Janis Ian´s "At seventeen" was slightly less well-received, accompanied by a high volume of crowd chatter more akin to an indie-rock opener at Webster Hall. Luckily, Celine knew how to earn the crowd´s attention, revisiting 1997´s ridiculously pedigreed power ballad "The reason" (written by Carole King, produced by George Martin) to surprisingly rapturous response. Many fans sung along to every word of the opener to "Let´s Talk About Love", Celine´s second best-selling album, despite its never being released as an official single or performed during her Vegas show. But she saved her most enthralling moment for the very end, encoring with the anticipated "My heart will go on". It´s a song that Celine has performed thousands of times on world tours and a decade of shows at the Colosseum at the Caesars Palace, an historic run that has grossed nearly a half-billion dollars in ticket sales since March 2003. But Celine made the Pandora performance unique with a flourish that could only be appreciated from the hushed volume of a small club. By re-creating the "Titanic" theme´s iconic flute introduction using just her voice, Celine brought a pin-drop silence to a room that had been buzzing just seconds prior. For a song that´s been so inescapable for some 16 years, Celine could still bring new layers of depth and emotion - no chest-thumping required. The complete track listing for the show included: "It´s all coming back to me now", "The power of love", "Where does my heart beat now", "Because you loved me", "The reason", "Water and a flame", "Loved me back to life", "At seventeen", "All by myself", "Love can move mountains", "River deep, mountain high" and "My heart will go on".
CONCERT IN ANTWERP
On November 21, 2013 Celine Dion performed at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium in front of about 20,000 people with the "Sans Attendre Tour" (also known as "Tournée Européene 2013"), the tenth concert tour by Celine organized to support the highly successful French language album "Sans Attendre". This was the first concert of the tour. Celine performed acapella a fragment of "Je ne vous oublie pas", before open the show with "Dans un autre monde". Then she sang "Parler à mon père", a medley with "It´s all coming back to me now" and "The power of love", "On ne change pas", "Destin", "Immensité", "Qui peut vivre sans amour?" and "Je crois toi". After an interlude with the band and a costume change, Celine came back to the stage to perform "La mer et l´enfant" while footage from Celine and her twins were shown on the huge screen behind her. She also performed "Celle qui m´a tout appris", "Where does my heart beat now", "Terre", "Tout l´or des hommes" and "Je sais pas". After another interlude and another costume change, Celine appeared on the stage and she performed her new single "Loved me back to life", "Water and a flame" and "At seventeen". Celine also performed "S´il suffisait d´aimer", "All by myself", "J´irai où tu iras" in duet with bassist Marc Langis and a medley with "Love can move mountains" and "River deep, mountain high". After another costume change, Celine performed "My heart will go on", "Pour que tu m´aimes encore" and "Le miracle". After parting the crowd with his band, Celine suprised the audience performing again an acapella fragment of "Je ne vous oublie pas". French tenor singer Vincent Niclo did the opening act. By and large, the setlist was very similar to that of "Celine... Une Seule Fois", a special one-off outdoor concert in Quebec City, Canada on July 27, 2013. Some of the songs performed at that concert, were not performed. However, certain songs were added to the concert in Antwerp. Two additional new English-language songs, "Water and a flame" and "At seventeen", as well as "Where does my heart beat now". Two rarely-performed French singles, "Tout l´or des hommes" and "Immensité", were also included. On this concert at the Sportpaleis, Celine also wore the same outfits in Europe as she did in Quebec during "Celine... Une Seule Fois", except for the dress worn during "My heart will go on". Therefore the white outfit with the long, gold jacket worn in Quebec wasn´t worn on this show.
CONCERT IN ANTWERP
On November 22, 2013 Celine Dion performed at the Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium in front of about 20,000 people with the "Sans Attendre Tour" (also known as "Tournée Européene 2013"). This concert was the same to that of November 21, 2013 with same outfits, although with some changes on the setlist. The songs "At seventeen" and "Le miracle" were not performed at this show. Celine performed acapella a fragment of "Je ne vous oublie pas", before open the show with "Dans un autre monde". Then she sang "Parler à mon père", a medley with "It´s all coming back to me now" and "The power of love", "On ne change pas", "Destin", "Immensité", "Qui peut vivre sans amour?" and "Je crois toi". During this first set, a rose was given to Celine from the audience and she immediately gave the rose to Elise Duguay (background singer). And during "On ne change pas" they shared glances continuously. After an interlude with the band and a costume change, Celine came back to the stage to perform "La mer et l´enfant", "Celle qui m´a tout appris", "Where does my heart beat now", "Terre", "Tout l´or des hommes" and "Je sais pas". After another interlude and another costume change, Celine appeared on the stage and she performed her new single "Loved me back to life" and "Water and a flame". Celine also performed "S´il suffisait d´aimer", "All by myself", "J´irai où tu iras" in duet with bassist Marc Langis and a medley with "Love can move mountains" and "River deep, mountain high". After another costume change, Celine performed "My heart will go on" and "Pour que tu m´aimes encore". After parting the crowd with his band, Celine performed again an acapella fragment of "Je ne vous oublie pas". Although they performed two songs less, ("At seventeen" and "Le miracle") there were more changes to the setlist. Celine sang "All by myself" in the short Balmain-dress-set, after "Water and a flame" and "S´il suffisait d´aimer". So she finished the third set with "All by myself". French tenor singer Vincent Niclo did the opening act. According to some fanatics whom attended the concert, the show was flawless (no messing around with earpieces, no microphone monitor, no forgetting of lyrics, no missing intro´s). Celine was really into the moment, concentrated; she even said "Goedenavond" and "Dankuwel" (Dutch for: "Good-evening" and "Thank you") many times, which was just funny and made the Dutch speaking crowd goes crazy. According to some, the audio quality at the Sportpaleis was really bad. It more or less reminded them of cheap sport-events; with too much bass, all the music being one big ball of noise. Even her voice more or less sounded a bit shrill. More people were complaining about this.
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