Sans attendre Tour
| Tour by Celine Dion | |
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| Associated album | Sans attendre |
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| Start date | 21 November 2013 |
| End date | 5 December 2013 |
| Legs | 1 |
| No. of shows | 9 in Europe |
| Box office | $20 million ($20.56 million in 2016 dollars) |
| Celine Dion concert chronology | |
The Sans attendre Tour was the tenth concert tour by Canadian singer Celine Dion. The tour was organized to support the highly successful French language album Sans attendre, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. Also known as Tournée Européene 2013, it was Dion's first dedicated Francophone tour since the D'eux Tour in 1995-1996. With only nine concerts performed, it was also the shortest tour of Dion's career. Overall, the tour grossed an estimated $20 million from 9 shows in Europe.
According to producer Gilbert Coullier, speaking on France Bleu 107.1, The European 'mini-tour' was originally planned to cover both the Francophone and Anglophone markets (including the UK and Germany), allowing Dion to promote her latest French and English releases simultaneously. However, due to the postponement of the English album, the Anglophone section of the tour was cancelled. The Francophone part of the tour went ahead as planned, celebrating the highly successful 2012 album Sans attendre in Belgium and France.
On 19 June 2013, a sixth show in Paris was announced, to take place on 4 December 2013. On 27 August 2013, a seventh show in Paris was announced, to take place on 5 December 2013. This brings the total number of concerts in the tour to nine.
The tour saw Dion perform two shows in Antwerp, Belgium, and five sold-out shows in Paris, France. The setlist was very similar to that of Celine... une seule fois, a special one-off outdoor show in Quebec during the summer of 2013 (see below). However, there were some changes made to the show in preparation for the European concerts. The songs "Je n'ai pas besoin d'amour", "L'amour existe encore", and the Luc Plamondon medley of "Je danse dans ma tête/Des mots qui sonnent" and "Incognito" were not performed. However, certain songs were added to the European setlist. Two additional new English-language songs, "Water and a Flame" and "At Seventeen", were added at the start of the tour, as well as Dion's first English-language hit from 1990, "Where Does My Heart Beat Now". Two rarely performed French singles, "Tout l'or des hommes" and "Immensité", were also included. The song "Regarde-moi", although planned for the Quebec show but never performed, was finally added to the setlist for the Paris shows, marking the first time it had been performed on stage since the Millennium Concert. "Un garçon pas comme les autres (Ziggy)" was also performed in France, repeating the same setlist differences seen during the Taking Chances World Tour, with "L'amour existe encore" only being performed in Quebec, and "Ziggy" only being performed in Europe.
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