Celine Dion Is ‘Ready to Take the Stage Again’ After Olympics

Celine Dion introduced her return to performing within the largest manner potential at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Perched atop the enduring Eiffel Tower in a customized, pearl-beaded Dior robe, she belted out Edith Piaf’s “Hymne à l’amour” (“Hymn to Love”) to shut the four-hour program on July 26. “Keep centered, preserve going, my coronary heart is with you!” Celine shared in a message to the competing athletes from world wide.

The French-Canadian singer is aware of what she’s speaking about. After leaving the highlight in 2020 through the pandemic and revealing her struggle with stiff-person syndrome (SPS), an incurable autoimmune illness, she’s lastly nicely sufficient to start the subsequent chapter of her profession, which is able to embrace a brand new Las Vegas present. “Now we have been working so laborious to place this present collectively, as a result of I’m again,” she stated in June. “I’ll be on stage. I don’t know when precisely however, belief me, I’ll scream it out loud. I can’t wait.”

It’s been an uphill battle for Celine, 56, who accepted the invitation to carry out on the Olympics a yr in the past, when she was nonetheless unsure if her situation would permit it. “Both I practice like an athlete and work tremendous laborious, or I change off and it’s over,” she stated in her latest documentary, I Am: Celine Dion, the place she hinted at her Paris Olympics look. “I’ve chosen to work with all my physique and soul, from head to toe, with a medical group. I need to be the very best I may be. My aim is to see the Eiffel Tower once more!” she stated.

Celine Dion Feels at Dwelling in Las Vegas

Exhausting work had led to this second, however Celine is not cured. “She is aware of her autoimmune dysfunction gained’t go away, however her therapies and coverings have made her really feel higher,” explains an insider. “Sufficient that she’s able to take the stage once more.”

Las Vegas can also be able to welcome house the performer, who presently holds the document for the 2 highest-grossing residencies in Sin Metropolis’s historical past. Almost 3 million followers noticed her unique present, Celine Dion: A New Day, which ran for 5 years, from 2003 to 2007, on the Colosseum at Caesars Palace and grossed a whopping $385 million. A follow-up present, merely referred to as Celine, ran from 2011 to 2019, and grossed $296 million.

At this time, setting new information is the furthest factor from Celine’s thoughts. “This time, she’ll in all probability solely do one or two reveals per week,” confides the insider, who explains that Celine’s battle with SPS has pressured her to pay shut consideration to her physique. “She was a workhorse — nothing might cease her — however now she offers herself some grace. Her reveals in all probability gained’t be as intense. She is going to sit down extra, particularly if she’s feeling a bit drained, however the fashions will nonetheless be extravagant. Her voice will nonetheless be the star of the present — that can by no means change. She desires her followers to expertise a real Celine con- cert, not one thing much less.”

Celine Dion Desires to Encourage Others With Her Story

Celine hopes that by being candid about her illness and her battle to dwell a full life once more, she evokes others. “Lots of people on this planet are struggling or alone,” she stated in her latest documentary. “Lots of people are trying right into a bag of empty hope, and it’s fairly darkish, and I felt like that for a very long time till I noticed that this isn’t residing. That’s not even dying. That is simply being nonetheless, and I didn’t need that anymore. I don’t suppose I deserved that.”