CELINE DION & FRANCO DRAGONE

This spectacle project takes form when Céline and René watch the show O, from Le Cirque du Soleil, in Las Vegas.
They so love it than they ask to its producer, Franco Dragone, to create a new show for Céline allying the singer's talent and the scenic concept from the famous circus.

Here is Céline Dion with a clown when she watched the show O.

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"O changed my life, Céline reveals. I had never seen something like this.
From the moment when the act-drop rose, I stayed open-mouthed, and when the spectacle ended, I could not rise anymore from my seat.
I said at once to René : 'There is no way, I can't come back onstage, and not do something like this.' "
Franco Dragone immediately accepted 'the immense challenge' to take up the show which the singer offers from March, 2003, at the new theater Caesars Palace Colosseum, in Las Vegas.

"It is the first time I work with song as the raw material, he admits. And I fell well. First because Céline is the biggest singing star, a extraordinary talent, but also because she has readiness of mind and an remarkable availability. Now I understand why Jean-Jacques Goldman wonders how he can never work with somebody else."
"When I met Céline and René in their house in Florida, almost two years ago, I felt a certain magic. A new alchemy was formed that inspired us to develop a partnership to create a show for Céline, Dragone commented. Since then, we have been joined by a number of superb partners and together we are pooling our creativity and talents to bring this fabulous project to life."

"If I had had no luck to work with Franco, resume Céline, I do not think that I would be gone back up on stage at once..."