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Falling into You: Around the World

Falling into You: Around the World was the eighth concert tour by Canadian singer Celine Dion, launched to support her fourth English‑language studio album, Falling into You (1996). Spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, the tour became the most extensive of Dion's career, comprising 145 performances and attracting large audiences across multiple continents. Designed to present material from Falling into You—an album that would go on to sell more than 32 million copies worldwide—the tour also incorporated selections from Dion's earlier repertoire.

Background

In February 1996, Dion announced a global concert tour in support of her album Falling into You, with performances initially planned across Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. The tour ultimately expanded into an international concert venture lasting more than a year, comprising 145 shows in 17 countries—making it the most extensive concert tour of her career in terms of total performances.

The tour began on 18 March 1996 in Perth, Australia, and concluded on 28 June 1997 in Nice, France. During the final European leg in June 1997, Dion performed for some of the largest audiences she had attracted up to that point, with attendance figures ranging from 35,000 to 70,000 people. Total worldwide attendance for the tour is estimated at approximately 1.7 million.

Opening acts

Set list

The following set list is taken from the 1996 US leg of the tour and does not represent all concerts.

  1. "Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down"
  2. "The Power of Love"
  3. "Falling into You"
  4. "Make You Happy"
  5. "River Deep, Mountain High"
  6. "Seduces Me"
  7. "All by Myself"
  8. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore"
  9. "J'irai où tu iras"
  10. "If You Asked Me To"
  11. "Beauty and the Beast"
  12. "When I Fall in Love"
  13. "Where Does My Heart Beat Now"
  14. "Misled"
  15. "Declaration of Love"
  16. "It's All Coming Back to Me Now"
  17. "To Love You More"
  18. "Le ballet"
  19. "Love Can Move Mountains"
  20. "Fly"
  21. "Call the Man"
  22. "The Power of the Dream"
  23. "Twist and Shout"
  24. "Because You Loved Me"

Notes

Tour dates

Broadcasts and recordings

The concerts held on 14–15 March 1997 at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, Tennessee were filmed and later broadcast on television. The performance was released on VHS in November 1998. A DVD edition was scheduled for release in Japan on 27 February 2008, but the project was ultimately cancelled.

A 1996 concert in Zurich was recorded for promotional use as a live CD, with only a limited number of copies produced.

Concerts in both Australia and Montreal were also filmed and broadcast as television specials. The Australian program featured four songs along with interview segments in which Dion discussed the album. The Montreal special included six songs, and the performances of "All by Myself" and "To Love You More" were later released as live music videos.

Personnel

Band

  • Claude "Mego" Lemay – musical director, keyboards
  • Dominique Messier – drums
  • Marc Langis – bass
  • Yves Frulla – keyboards
  • André Coutu – guitars
  • Paul Picard – percussion
  • Taro Hakase – violin on "To Love You More"
  • Terry Bradford – backing vocals
  • Rachelle Jeanty – backing vocals (1996)
  • Julie LeBlanc – backing vocals (1997)
  • Elise Duguay – backing vocals, cello

Production

  • René Angélil – management
  • Bud Scheatzle – tour director
  • Ian Donald – production director
  • Michel Dion – assistant to the tour director
  • Denis Savage – front-of-house sound engineer
  • Daniel Baron – stage sound engineer
  • François Desjardins – sound system technician
  • Marc Beauchamp – sound system technician
  • Marc Thériault – sound system technician
  • Yves Aucoin – lighting director
  • Normand Chassé – assistant lighting director
  • Yves "Kiwwi" Lefebvre – video director
  • Yves "Uncle Bill" Beriault – camera technician
  • Louis Lefebvre – camera technician
  • Jean-François Canuel – lighting technician
  • Antoine Malette – lighting technician
  • Michel Pommerleau – lighting technician
  • Jean-François Dubois – band gear technician
  • Guy Vignola – band gear technician
  • Stéphane Hamel – band gear technician
  • Tonje Wold – set design
  • Donald Chouinard – set design
  • Frédéric Morosovsky – head rigger
  • Patrick Angélil – production assistant
  • Louise Labranche – tour assistant
  • Manon Dion – assistant to Céline
  • Eric Burrows – bodyguard
  • Louis Hechter – hairstylist
  • Annie L. Horth – stylist
  • Dominique Giraldeau – choreographer
  • D-U-B-U-C mode de vie – musicians' wardrobe

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