They are part, like many other fans, of the disappointed. Virginie, Céline, Shannon, and Nadège, unconditional admirers of Céline Dion, were all let down: none of them managed to get a ticket for the star’s 16 exceptional concerts at the Paris La Défense Arena, scheduled between September and October 2026. Out of the 9 million registered, they were not among the 480,000 lucky ones. Faced with the impossibility of seeing their idol live, they had an idea: “At first, we said it as a joke: that we were going to launch a petition to express our discontent. Then, given all the enthusiasm, we thought we surely were not the only ones disappointed,” one of them tells BFMTV.
So, they take action and launch an online petition, entitled “Let’s make Céline Dion’s concerts accessible to everyone in 2026”, already signed by more than 700 people in a few days. Their goal? To convince the organizers, producers, and cinemas to broadcast the concerts live on the big screen, all over France.
“Through a screen, we will feel the emotions”
For these fans, the cinematic experience could even be more enjoyable than the concert in the hall. “Me, with my 5’0”, I never see much at concerts,” jokes Virginie. “But even through a cinema screen, I am sure and certain that Céline Dion will manage to make us feel emotions,” she adds, convinced that the magic will happen.
This conviction is reinforced by the fact that broadcasting concerts at the cinema is an increasingly common practice. Recently, artists like Orelsan, Taylor Swift, -M-, and SCH have already taken the plunge, with broadcasts that have pleased a wide audience, even in remote regions away from large concert halls.
Nadège, who has already seen Céline Dion about fifteen times (including three times in Las Vegas), has made a plea through ICI Limousin for “this plea to reach the ears of the organizers.” “They should be able to broadcast these concerts live in all the cinemas in France, to make them accessible to as many people as possible,” she argues.
The petition is starting to circulate on social media, and the idea is appealing well beyond Corrèze. “We create this, we see how far it can go. And if it happens, we would be happy to go to the cinema to see it on the big screen,” she says.
