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CONCERT IN COPENHAGEN
On June 5, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark with the "Taking Chances Tour". Nordstrøm did the opening act. Then, Celine appered and she performed "I drove all night", "Taking chances", "It´s all coming back to me now", "Because you loved me", "To love you more", "Eyes on me", "All by myself", "I´m alive" (a remix version), "Shadow of love", "I´m your angel" (in duet with Barnev Valsaint), "Alone", "My love", "The prayer" (with a pre-recorded video of Andrea Bocelli), "Pour que tu m´aimes encore", The Queen medley with "We will rock you" and "The show must go on", "Think twice", "It´s a man´s man´s man´s woeld", "Love can move mountains", "River deep, mountain high" and "My heart will go on". During the finale Celine was very moved by the many lights in the audience. She used during the last song the same black dress used during concerts in Paris on May 2008. For this show, it wasn´t used the center stage specially designed for the tour.
CONCERT IN STOCKHOLM
On June 7, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden with the "Taking Chances World Tour". The band Calaisa made the opening act. They were photographed with Celine before the show. Right after half past seven at Saturday night did the supporting act Calaisa walk up on the square stage in the middle of Globen. When Celine gets lowered down on stage in a video cube rises a roar of excitement in the audience sea. Wearing a pink dress she starts off with the song “I drove all night” as the orchestra arises from the stage floor. Second song is “The power of love” which is decorated by powerful light effects and a tone secure voice. Then the evenings most beautiful moment takes place. Celine performs the power ballad “It´s all coming back to me now” and follows this with “Because you loved me”. The sing-along roars between the rows of chairs. The night first clothing change takes place. Celine shows up in a silvery dress and a big white cape which flickers by the winds of the Carola-fan. The amazing “All by myself” builds up to end in a magical a capella -crecendo- the audience stands up and cheers again. Eight dancers show up and Celine changes clothes again. Then she fires a set of songs from the album “Taking Chances”. The famous duet “I´m your angel”, is being sung together with one of the backing vocalists. Next the American songwriter, Robert Wells shows up on stage. The long haired pianist has actually written the song “A song for you” together with Andreas Bagge for Celine. Celine takes the opportunity to praise Wells before they nail the song. " He is a fantastic artist", she says to the audience. "This song is special for me. I felt the vibrations from the piano when we recorded, it became our song", she continues. Then the delighted mix continues. The night´s first (an only) French song “Pour que tu m´aimes encore” is being performed. It is being followed by Queen´s “We will rock you” and the entire Globen swings on beat. The temperature rises with the bombastic soul hit “Love can move mountains” and Celine is now dressed in an all white, short dress. Then, she gets off stage. After a few minutes of deafening applauses and yelling she reappears once more. This time in a golden finery and fires off more soul classics. Celine gets off again but returns after a huge cheering. As extra number she performs “My heart will go on”. It is dead silent in Globen. Around 16,000 people stands up during the last song. Noticeably touched by the praises which follows goes Celine off the stage.
CONCERT IN BERLIN
On June 12, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Waldbühne in Berlin, Germany with the "Taking Chances World Tour". This was the first of six consecutive concerts in Germany with this tour. For this show, it wasn´t used the center stage specially designed for the tour. The show started at 08:30 p.m. and about 18,000 fans started to freak out when they saw the Intro video on the three huge monitors. Then, Celine apperaed with a big grinch smile on her face and started to sing "I drove all night". Then the song directly turned into "The power of love". After that song, Celine welcomed the fans and started to talk about the past where she had been to Germany and that she loved to record some German songs when she was 14 and could not even speak any English. So she started an accapella version of "Was bedeute ich dir?", the German version of the song "D´amour ou d´amité", and everybody in the audience started to scream out loud. Celine also greeted her Mom then who was sitting in the audience with Celine´s husband and then she went on with "Taking chances", "It´s all coming back to me now", "Because you loved me" and a wodnerful violine version of "To love you more". The flamenco section started with some dancers while Celine changes her outfit. Celine sang "Eyes on me" and then one of the show highlights followed. It was "All by myself" that gained a big round of applause. The fans did not stop to cheer and applaude during the song because Celine did hold all the high notes for so long. Afterwards she performed a remix of "I´m alive" with funny dance scenes and two more songs from the album "Taking Chances". She also performed "I´m your angel" in duet with a backing vocal, and "The prayer" in a virtual duet with Andrea Bocelli, who appeared on a pre-recorded video on the huge screens. Then, Celine did the only french song for that night, "Pour que tu m´aimes encore". Celine introduced "My love" and made it a very special performance by starting the song very slowly and move on faster, she was really touched by the reaction of the audience that did not stop clapping for minutes, she had tears in her eyes and said "Dankeschön" for a hundred times. She did some conver songs; "We will rock you", "It´s a man´s world" and "The show must go on", which she was singing together with the audience. She ended the show with "Love can move mountains" and she went off stage. Celine comes out one more time to sing "River deep, mountain high" and "My heart will go on".
CONCERT IN FRANKFURT
On June 14, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt, Germany with the "Taking Chances Tour". Celine performed "I drove all night", "The power of love", "Taking chances", "It´s all coming back to me now", "Because you loved me", "To love you more", "Eyes on me", "All by myself", "I´m alive" (a remix version), "Shadow of love", "Fade away", "I´m your angel" with one of the background vocals Barnev Valsaint, "Alone", "My love", "The prayer" with Andrea Bocelli, who appeared on a pre-recoded video, "Pour que tu m´aimes encore", the Queen medley with "We will rock you" and "The show must go on", "I got the feelin´" (as part of the soul medley), "It´s a man´s man´s man´s world", "Love can move mountains", "River deep mountain high" and "My heart will go on". Celine also remembered the beginning of her career. In the mid-80s she has recorded a German version of her biggest French hit until then "D´amour ou d´amitié" (entitled "Was bedeute ich dir" in German). A cappella Celine has improvised the German version and she sang "...Liebe und Freundschaft, ja wie unterscheidet man sie, find, ich die Antwort darauf oder find ich sie nie...". After "The power of love" Celine spoke about the song, that it´s a song travels from generation to generation and she thanked the songwriters of it: Gunter Mende and Mary Susan Applegate, who have been in the audience. When Celine started to sing "River deep, mountain high" hundreds of people ran to the front of the stage to party with her. The security wasn´t able to stop them and it seemed that Celine really liked it that the audience was really into it. For this show, it wasn´t used the center stage specially designed for the tour.
CONCERT IN MÜNCHEN
On June 22, 2008 Celine Dion performed at the Olympic Stadium in München, Germany with the "Taking Chances Tour" in front of about 25,000 people. The audience was amazing, they were screaming, some didn´t seat for just a minute while Celine was performing. The set list was the same than the concert in Frankfurt on June 14, 2008. For this show, it wasn´t used the center stage specially designed for the tour.
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