Courage World Tour

The Courage World Tour is the fourteenth concert tour by the Canadian singer Celine Dion, in support of her English-language studio album, Courage (2019), and her first world tour in over a decade, since her Taking Chances World Tour. The tour began in Quebec City, Canada, on 18 September 2019.

Courage World Tour
World tour by Celine Dion
Location
  • Europe
  • Middle East
  • North America
Associated albumCourage
Start date18 September 2019 (2019-09-18)
End date25 July 2021 (2021-07-25)
Legs2
No. of shows104
Celine Dion concert chronology

Background

The Courage World Tour was officially announced on 3 April 2019 at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.[1] The event was live streamed on Dion's official Facebook page.[2] Tickets went on general sale on 12 April 2019.[3] Earlier the same month, following pre-sale demand, additional shows in Montreal, Toronto, Boston and Miami were added,[4] with two extra shows were added in Montreal, one in Newark and one in New York City to meet demand later. On 11 April 2019, extra dates for Quebec City, Montreal and Ottawa were announced.[4]

On-site rehearsals were held at Videotron Centre in Quebec City starting early September, with Dion and her team of 110 staying at the new hotel Le Capitole for the duration of their time in Quebec City.[5] In September 2019, ConcertFrance announced that Dion will perform at the Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre, France on 26 June 2020.[6] That same month, the first four shows in Montreal, scheduled to take place 26, 27 and 30 September, and 1 October 2019, were postponed due to a throat virus; the shows were rescheduled for 18, 19, 21 and 22 November.[7] European dates, as well as additional dates in New York City, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Vancouver were revealed by SoldOutTicketBox.com on 26 September 2019.[8] In March 2020, Dion rescheduled two dates in Washington, D. C. and Pittsburgh, due to the "common cold," despite reports being related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] On 12 March 2020, Dion rescheduled the remainder of the North American leg amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.[10] On 24 April 2020, Dion postponed 30 shows originally scheduled to take place from 21 May through 1 September 2020, due to the coronavirus pandemic.[11]

Critical reception

The Courage World Tour has received positive reviews. Billboard praised the song choices, the mix of older hits like "Beauty and the Beast" with Dion's new songs like "Courage", and also the "extraordinary" encore: "My Heart Will Go On" and John Lennon's "Imagine". It also praised Dion's voice, her outfits and drones emulating stars, water, and even the Heart of the Ocean diamond during the "My Heart Will Go On" performance. Billboard called the two-hours concert stunning and showstopping.[12] The Courage World Tour was also chosen as one of the best live shows of 2019 by Billboard.[13]

Commercial reception

According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Dion topped the 30 November-dated Hot Tours recap with $33.2 million from the tour's first 19 shows. She grossed $7 million in four shows at Montreal's Bell Centre, sold out at 53,864 tickets. The opening leg averaged out to $1.747 million and 12,414 tickets per show. These figures boosted Dion's career-total to $1.115 billion and 8.8 million tickets sold, as reported to Billboard Boxscore.[14]

Set list

This set list is from the 18 September 2019 show at Videotron Centre in Quebec City.[15] It is not intended to represent every show.

  1. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
  2. "Dans un autre monde"
  3. "Terre"
  4. "À vous"
  5. "I'm Alive"
  6. "The Power of Love"
  7. "L'amour existe encore"
  8. "Beauty and the Beast"
  9. "Encore un soir"
  10. "You're the Voice"
  11. "Regarde-moi"
  12. "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)"
  13. "Courage"
  14. "All by Myself"
  15. "Lying Down"
  16. "Tous les blues sont écrits pour toi"
  17. "S'il suffisait d'aimer"
  18. "Let's Dance" / "Another One Bites the Dust" / "Flying on My Own" / "Kiss" / "River Deep, Mountain High" / "Lady Marmalade"
  19. "My Heart Will Go On"
  20. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore"

Notes
  • Beginning with the show in Cleveland, Dion added "That's the Way It Is", "If You Asked Me To", "Love Can Move Mountains", "The Prayer", "To Love You More", "The Reason", "Because You Loved Me" and "Imagine"; she removed "Dans un autre monde", "Terre", "À vous", "L'amour existe encore", "Encore un soir", "Regarde-moi", "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)", "S'il suffisait d'aimer", "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" and "Flying on My Own".[12]
  • Beginning with the show in Montreal, Dion replaced "Lying Down" with "Imperfections".[16]
  • During the shows in Boston, Dion performed "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" in place of "Imagine".[17]
  • During the first show in Miami, Dion performed "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" in place of "Imagine" in tribute to her mother, who died earlier that day.[18]
  • During her second Montreal show on 19 February 2020, Dion invited Mathieu Lafontaine of the band Bleu Jeans Bleu onstage to perform the band's song "Coton ouaté" as a duet.[19]

Tour dates
List of North American concerts[4]
Date City Country Venue Attendance[20] Revenue
18 September 2019 Quebec City Canada Videotron Centre 39,930 / 39,930 $5,761,752
20 September 2019
21 September 2019
15 October 2019 Ottawa Canadian Tire Centre 24,205 / 24,205 $3,348,005
16 October 2019
18 October 2019 Cleveland United States Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse 13,199 / 13,199 $1,593,287
20 October 2019 Columbus Schottenstein Center 10,751 / 10,751 $1,626,691
22 October 2019 Louisville KFC Yum! Center 12,465 / 12,465 $1,531,237
24 October 2019 Cincinnati U.S. Bank Arena 11,004 / 11,004 $1,492,937
26 October 2019 St. Louis Enterprise Center 11,735 / 11,735 $1,591,985
28 October 2019 Kansas City Sprint Center 11,838 / 11,838 $1,883,309
30 October 2019 Fargo Fargodome 10,473 / 12,239 $1,174,539
1 November 2019 Minneapolis Target Center 12,504 / 12,504 $1,992,180
3 November 2019 Milwaukee Fiserv Forum 10,788 / 10,788 $1,921,244
5 November 2019 Detroit Little Caesars Arena 13,112 / 13,112 $2,282,502
18 November 2019[lower-alpha 1] Montreal Canada Bell Centre 53,864 / 53,864 $6,994,869
19 November 2019[lower-alpha 1]
21 November 2019[lower-alpha 1]
22 November 2019[lower-alpha 1]
1 December 2019 Chicago United States United Center 13,685 / 13,685 $2,870,852
3 December 2019 Indianapolis Bankers Life Fieldhouse 11,633 / 11,633 $1,630,450
5 December 2019 Buffalo KeyBank Center 12,462 / 12,462 $1,746,480
7 December 2019 Albany Times Union Center 10,487 / 10,487 $1,816,438
9 December 2019 Toronto Canada Scotiabank Arena 26,831 / 26,831 $4,772,722
10 December 2019
13 December 2019 Boston United States TD Garden 24,661 / 24,661 $5,180,061
14 December 2019
8 January 2020 Jacksonville VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena 11,272 / 11,272 $1,912,510
11 January 2020 Atlanta State Farm Arena 11,212 / 11,212 $2,323,672
13 January 2020 Nashville Bridgestone Arena 13,023 / 13,023 $2,103,662
15 January 2020 Tampa Amalie Arena 12,749 / 12,749 $2,254,145
17 January 2020 Miami American Airlines Arena 24,763 / 24,763 $5,222,838
18 January 2020
21 January 2020 Charlotte Spectrum Center 13,458 / 13,458 $2,161,228
30 January 2020 San Antonio AT&T Center 13,645 / 13,645 $2,021,746
1 February 2020 Houston Toyota Center 11,569 / 11,569 $2,127,052
3 February 2020 Dallas American Airlines Center 12,634 / 12,634 $2,657,817
5 February 2020 Tulsa BOK Center 11,004 / 11,004 $1,619,919
7 February 2020 New Orleans Smoothie King Center 12,833 / 12,833 $2,278,207
9 February 2020 Memphis FedExForum 11,452 / 11,452 $1,609,727
11 February 2020 Raleigh PNC Arena 12,436 / 12,436 $2,150,963
18 February 2020[lower-alpha 2] Montreal Canada Bell Centre 28,257 / 28,257 $3,587,437
19 February 2020[lower-alpha 2]
22 February 2020 Atlantic City United States Boardwalk Hall 11,252 / 11,252 $2,470,305
24 February 2020 Baltimore Royal Farms Arena 11,181 / 11,181 $1,591,232
26 February 2020 Philadelphia Wells Fargo Center 13,269 / 13,269 $2,011,920
28 February 2020 Brooklyn Barclays Center 25,177 / 25,177 $5,115,713
29 February 2020
3 March 2020 Uniondale Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum 10,672 / 10,672 $1,985,445
5 March 2020 Brooklyn Barclays Center 12,543 / 12,543 $1,875,568
7 March 2020 Newark Prudential Center 23,529 / 23,529 $4,330,802
8 March 2020
16 November 2020[lower-alpha 3] Washington, D.C. Capital One Arena — —
18 November 2020[lower-alpha 3] Pittsburgh PPG Paints Arena — —
List of European and Middle Eastern concerts[4][lower-alpha 4]
Date City Country Venue Attendance Revenue
19 March 2021 Paris France La Défense Arena — —
20 March 2021
23 March 2021
24 March 2021
26 March 2021
27 March 2021
30 March 2021 Antwerp Belgium Sportpaleis — —
31 March 2021
5 April 2021 Amsterdam Netherlands Ziggo Dome — —
7 April 2021
8 April 2021
11 April 2021 Dublin Ireland 3Arena — —
12 April 2021
15 April 2021 Manchester England Manchester Arena — —
16 April 2021
19 April 2021 Birmingham Utilita Arena Birmingham — —
20 April 2021
22 April 2021 London The O2 Arena — —
23 April 2021
26 April 2021 Glasgow Scotland SSE Hydro — —
27 April 2021
11 May 2021 Budapest Hungary Laszlo Papp Budapest Sports Arena — —
13 May 2021 Łódź Poland Atlas Arena — —
15 May 2021 Kraków Tauron Arena Kraków — —
18 May 2021 Munich Germany Olympiahalle — —
20 May 2021 Vienna Austria Wiener Stadthalle — —
22 May 2021 Zagreb Croatia Arena Zagreb — —
24 May 2021 Prague Czech Republic O2 Arena — —
26 May 2021 Zürich Switzerland Hallenstadion — —
27 May 2021
29 May 2021[lower-alpha 5] Berlin Germany Mercedes-Benz Arena — —
31 May 2021 Hamburg Barclaycard Arena — —
2 June 2021 Cologne Lanxess Arena — —
4 June 2021 Mannheim SAP Arena — —
6 June 2021 Copenhagen Denmark Royal Arena — —
7 June 2021
10 June 2021 Oslo Norway Telenor Arena — —
11 June 2021
13 June 2021 Stockholm Sweden Friends Arena — —
15 June 2021 Helsinki Finland Hartwall Arena — —
16 June 2021
19 June 2021[lower-alpha 6] Tel Aviv Israel Bloomfield Stadium — —
20 June 2021[lower-alpha 7]
22 June 2021 Nicosia Cyprus GSP Stadium — —
15 July 2021[lower-alpha 8] Carhaix France Vieilles Charrues Festival N/A N/A
17 July 2021[lower-alpha 9] Lucca Italy Mura Storiche N/A N/A
19 July 2021[lower-alpha 10] Nyon Switzerland Plaine de l'Asse N/A N/A
21 July 2021 Attard Malta Ta' Qali — —
23 July 2021 Athens Greece O.A.K.A. — —
25 July 2021 Bucharest Romania Arena Națională — —

Postponed shows
List of postponed concerts
Date City Country Venue Reason Ref.
24 March 2020 Denver United States Pepsi Center COVID-19 pandemic [10]
26 March 2020 Salt Lake City Vivint Smart Home Arena
29 March 2020 Glendale Gila River Arena
31 March 2020 San Diego Pechanga Arena
2 April 2020 Los Angeles Staples Center
3 April 2020
7 April 2020 Sacramento Golden 1 Center
9 April 2020 Oakland Oakland Arena
10 April 2020 San Francisco Chase Center
13 April 2020 Portland Moda Center
15 April 2020 Tacoma Tacoma Dome
17 April 2020 Vancouver Canada Rogers Arena
18 April 2020
21 April 2020 Edmonton Rogers Place
22 April 2020
25 April 2020 Saskatoon SaskTel Centre
27 April 2020 Winnipeg Bell MTS Place

Cancelled shows
List of cancelled concerts
Date City Country Venue Reason Ref.
18 July 2020 Monte Carlo Monaco Place du Casino COVID-19 pandemic [22]
31 July 2020 Beirut Lebanon Beirut Waterfront Mutual agreement with
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References

Notes
  1. The concerts of 18, 19, 21 and 22 November 2019 at the Bell Centre were originally scheduled to take place on 26, 27 and 30 September, and 1 October 2019, but were rescheduled, due to virus infection.[7]
  2. The concerts of 18 and 19 February 2020 at the Bell Centre were originally scheduled to take place on 4 and 5 October 2019, but were rescheduled, due to virus infection, as announced by Celine via InstagramTV
  3. The November 2020 concerts were originally scheduled to take place in March of the same year, but were rescheduled, due to "common cold."[9]
  4. These shows were originally scheduled to take place in the summer of 2020, but were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  5. The concert of 29 May 2021 was originally scheduled to take place on 22 July 2020 at Waldbühne.
  6. The concert of 19 June 2021 was originally scheduled to take place on 4 August 2020 at Yarkon Park.[21]
  7. The concert of 20 June 2021 was originally scheduled to take place on 5 August 2020 at Yarkon Park.[21]
  8. The concert of 15 July 2021 in Carhaix is part of the Vieilles Charrues Festival.
  9. The concert of 17 July 2021 in Lucca is part of the Lucca Summer Festival.
  10. The concert of 19 July 2021 in Nyon is part of the Paléo Festival.

Citations
  1. "Celine Dion announces Courage World Tour kicking off in September". celinedion.com. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  2. Piet Levy (4 April 2019). "Celine Dion announces 'Courage World Tour,' playing Milwaukee for first time in 11 years". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  3. "Céline Dion reveals Courage tour, including (at least) two Montreal shows". Montreal Gazette. 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
  4. "Celine Dion: in Concert". celinedion.com. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. Sandra Godin (30 August 2019). "Québec se prépare pour accueillir Céline". TVA Nouvelles (in French). Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  6. “Céline Dion à Paris en Juin prochain !”. ConcertFrance.com. Retrieved 27 September 2019
  7. Montreal Gazette (26 September 2019). "Céline Dion cancels first four shows of Montreal concert series". Montreal Gazette. Canada: Postmedia Network. Retrieved 27 September 2019.
  8. “Courage World Tour”. Sold out ticket box.com. Retrieved 27 September 2019
  9. Quinn, Dave (11 March 2020). "Céline Dion Cancels Concerts Because of Common Cold, Doesn't Have COVID-19". People. United States: Meredith Corporation. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  10. Seemayer, Zach (12 March 2020). "Celine Dion Postpones North American Tour Dates After Testing Negative For Coronavirus". Entertainment Tonight Canada. Canada: Corus Entertainment. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  11. @celinedion (24 April 2020). "J'attends avec impatience le jour où nous pourrons encore partager ensemble notre joie de chanter et de danser" [I look forward to the days when we can once again share the joys of singing and dancing together.] (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  12. Denise Warner (19 October 2019). "Celine Dion Comes Alive With Stunning First Stop in U.S. of 'Courage' World Tour: Here Are the 6 Best Moments". Billboard. Retrieved 21 October 2019.
  13. Denise Warner (4 December 2019). "The Best Live Shows Of 2019: Staff Picks". Billboard. Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  14. Eric Frankenberg (26 November 2019). "Celine Dion Debuts Courage World Tour to $30 Million". Billboard. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  15. Wass, Mike (19 September 2019). "Céline Dion Kicks Off 'Courage World Tour' In Québec: See the Setlist". Idolator. United States. Archived from the original on 20 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  16. Marc-André Lemieux (18 November 2019). "Courage World Tour: un retour fracassant pour Céline Dion au Centre Bell de Montréal". Le Journal de Montréal (in French). Retrieved 8 December 2019.
  17. Maura Johnston (15 December 2019). "Céline Dion delivers big moments in a TD Garden lovefest". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  18. Emily Zemler (20 January 2020). "Watch Céline Dion Cover 'Over the Rainbow' in Tribute to Late Mother". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  19. Shanny Halle, "Duo Bleu Jeans Bleu et Céline Dion: «c'est épique!» – Claude Cobra". Le Journal de Montréal, 20 February 2020.
  20. North America Boxscore:
  21. "Celine Dion reschedules Israel shows". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com.
  22. https://www.montecarlosbm.com/en/shows-monaco/celine-dion
  23. Yassine, Hussein (3 January 2020). "Celine Dion Just Canceled Her Upcoming Performance in Beirut". The961. Lebanon. Retrieved 4 January 2020.
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