Posted on: July 24, 2024, 08:16h.
Last updated on: July 24, 2024, 08:16h.
A new day has come for Celine Dion. According to TMZ, the Canadian superstar is in the “final stages” of negotiating a contract to finally appear at Resorts World Las Vegas, where she was scheduled to begin a residency in November 2021.
As everyone reading this knows, Dion had to scuttle that engagement due to a devastating neurological condition. Katy Perry eventually replaced her.
Citing “multiple sources with direct knowledge,” TMZ reports that Dion’s new residency will begin either in late 2024 or early 2025, and will likely not last a long as either of Dion’s two Caesars Palace residencies. (“A New Day” featured 714 shows from 2003-2007, “Celine” featured 427 from 2011 to 2019.)
“Carrie Underwood is there now,” the gossip website reports, “and it’s no coincidence Carrie’s run ends this November.”
Her Shows Will Go On
Dion, 56, says she has been struggling with Stiff Person Syndrome, which affects fewer than one in a million people, since 2008. Though it was not correctly diagnosed until 2021, she says it gave her vocal problems throughout her second residency at Caesars Palace’s Colosseum.
Painful spasms constricted Dion’s voice, cutting off her access to her higher notes and forcing her to lower the keys of some songs.
When asked what might happen if the disorder flared up during her new residency, one of TMZ’s sources stated: “She’s just prepared to power through it. It won’t stop her from performing.”
However, as anyone knows who watched the recent Amazon Prime documentary, “I Am: Celine,” that statement seems overly optimistic. The doc showed the “My Heart Will Go On” suffering a painful, 10-minute, full-body spasm as a result of the exertion just from recording a new song.
More likely, the Resorts World audience will be allowed to watch Dion battle a spasm in real time on stage, which could provide an experience much more uniquely moving than a routine concert.
For the time being, all the world’s eyes will be on Dion on Friday, when she is set to perform a duet with Lady Gaga, on Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose,” to open the Summer Olympics in Paris. (Gaga sang the tune in her 2018 movie, “A Star is Born.”)
It will be Dion’s first performance since a March 9, 2020 concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ.
