Some 20,000 delirious fans attended the first concert of Celine Dion's new "Courage" world tour in Quebec City on Wednesday.

A smashing comeback. The Quebec superstar was back in his home province after 16 years in the United States. And they were 20,000 to listen to it at the first concert of the new world tour.

"I am very, very nervous". The Videotron Center crowd, which was full, rose in a thunderous applause to greet the return of the Canadian singer, who let out tears of joy by thanking her loyal audience. "I'm very, very nervous, it's the first time I'm involved so much in a show, before I had a partner who was not worse in it," she said, moved, with a gesture towards the sky in reference to her late husband, René Angélil. "Tonight I want him to be proud of me and the whole team." At the age of 51, the Canadian singer presented a show that was almost two hours of mastery and had fun with the rhythm of her fifteen musicians' chords on a colorful stage.

Nearly 4,500,000 fans came to see her in Las Vegas. On June 8, the singer decided to turn a page of her career by leaving her American residency in Las Vegas after 16 years, during which she presented two shows in the auditorium of the famous Caesars Palace casino, "A New Day "From 2003 to 2007, and" Céline "from 2011 to 2019. Nearly 4,500,000 fans came to see the superstar on stage during its 1,141 performances in the" city of sin ", generating a total of 875 million Canadian dollars ( 600 million euros), according to the figures of its concert promoter AEG Live.