Rumors are rife that Céline Dion is on the verge of announcing Paris concert dates following a mysterious poster campaign on the streets of the French capital bearing the titles of some of her best-known songs such as the ‘Power of Love’, ‘Pour que tu m’aimes encore’ and ‘S’il Suffisait d’Aimer’.
The appearance of the posters has added fuel to a report in Canadian newspaper La Presse on Sunday that the star is preparing to perform two concerts a week at the 40,000-capacity Paris La Défense Arena in September and October.
Dion has been battling her way back to good health after being diagnosed with the rare neurological condition Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) in 2022.
She last gave a big solo concert in New York in the spring of 2020 as part of her Courage World Tour, which was then put on hold due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Attempts to resume the tour in 2023 and 2024 were abandoned due to the star’s ill health.
Dion then gave a powerful, one-off, live performance at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in July 2024, belting out Edith Piaf’s classic song ‘Hymn To Love’ against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower.
Fans have been hoping ever since that Dion will return to the live concert scene.
There was speculation last year that Dion would perform at the 2025 European Song Contest in Switzerland. A video address from the star shown in the first semi-final, in which she talked about her “life-changing” win for Switzerland in the 1988 edition of the competition with the song ‘Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi’, added fuel to the rumors at the time.
It did not come to pass, with the star’s reps shutting down the reports, saying Dion had never been due to “attend, perform or present”.
Deadline has reached out to Dion’s reps on the latest rumors of a Paris concert season.