Celine Dion to Perform at Opening Ceremony at Paris Olympics | TMZ Live

Celine Dion will perform Friday at the opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, and organizers have opened the vault for her ... TMZ has learned.

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[KitTheMisfitToys]

I'm surprised to hear this. Celine Dion is such a fighter. I can't wait to see her perform

[zanifriz]

Refreshing to hear you guys talk lovely things about Celine ❤❤

[eli-dbct]

If you have read the official page of the Olympic Committee they said that all artists involved in the opening will perform for free.

[Thetalkpodcast]

What a treat
I can’t wait to be enchanted by her again ❤

[Hroupe]

I teared up during the performance. It was so amazing

[JaylenPotts-zsqw]

Celine Dion is very special and powerful.

[livee]

Aw may God Bless her keep her safe from Stiff episodes during her performance and after it ❤...Celine we Canadians ❤you.

[jammerfaceaj]

correction: artists are not being paid for their performances

[Songs-lrwt]

NFH half time people just messed up and never gave her the opportunity she deserved…. Good that Olympics which is way bigger then them is recognising her

[TomLloyd-]

Now . . . I'd love to see you guys do a 'reaction' to her performance.

[LenStgelais]

Well Céline Dion is literaly the most known woman on this planet to Africa to asia to Arabic countries shes known Everywhere and also NO ONE is a better Singer then her on the female side on this planet excellent choice they got the best singer

[pohaikalani]

Truly. We donʻt need to know how much she gets paid for her performance. Itʻs none of our business.
Bravo C👏👏👏

[Retxedlouise]

Olympics said no performers will get paid!!

[Vlad-vhzk]

I reckon she will perform ON the Eiffel Tower.

[maxine-xx]

Sorry folks but this "performance" had Dion miming/"lip-syncing" to a heavily produced prerecorded track _and_ what's even sadder is that the vocals were tampered with; manipulated using _'pitch correction'_ software .
The music business is mess today with both "artists" and producers to blame for the current dismal state of affairs. Something really must be done to address the wide-scale, wholesale deception that is taking place. What we all witnessed here may have been dismissed as something of a "one-off" (event) in the past _a la_ the now legendary Whitney Houston SuperBowl National Anthem Performance (also faked, the very *real* beads of facial perspiration notwithstanding) hence viewed through more forgiving lens *however*, what occurred at the Olympics the other night _in the rain, on the Eiffel Tower_ no less, has now come to be considered/accepted as an industry standard. Almost all recordings are undergoing these manipulative voice altering processes with even "live" performances being given the treatment ; subjected to such "corrective" measures either in real time at the concert venue itself through "autotune" installed in the onstage sound system or later in post-production for recorded releases of the "live" performance intended for consumption by the general public. Truly tragic.

[tabby]

The paintings of the Greek God at the table is nothing like the last supper. It has nude people around the table and on the table. No one in the painting around the table has a crown. But for Olympics they sat and laid it out like the last supper. Mocking it even if you say it’s Greek mythology there is so many people that want to mock it subliminal or straight forward. The fact that even one guy in black had his Testicles hanging out the shorts. There are families and kids watching this stuff so the whole show was weird and not appropriate to younger viewers. My 15yr old grandson was watching this in his room and came out to tell his mom it was weird and didn’t seem right. So if a teenager feels that way then anyone who disagrees is blind. Oddly enough they got a blackout, only place lit up still was the basilica! Then they had bad rain and other stuff

[ArizonaSquatch]

I hope she doesn't get stiffed while in France

[drquinnmedicinewoman]

Also Celine can use some of that money on some plastic surgery - I free for hire!

[amylau]

this is comical. woman goes from lying in bed to performing in Paris...Please!