Michel Polnareff in concert: all about his new tour

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MICHEL POLNAREFF. The singer Michel Polnareff, who made his return with the show “Polnarêves”, announces a new tour in France.

[Mis à jour le 14 novembre 2022 à 17h19] After his return to the spotlight in June, Michel Polnareff is back on tour. The singer with glasses announces, on RTL, a new salvo of concerts of around twenty dates, which will begin on May 24, 2023 at the Palais Nikaïa in Nice. According to the radio, the show will be divided into two parts: one with Michel Polnareff alone, in piano-voice, the other where he will be surrounded by musicians.

“I hope it’s not going too fast and that I’m not going to become a microwave,” says the 78-year-old artist to RTL. And to add: “it’s possible that this will be my last tour, but I think about it on every tour, since the first!” Michel Polnareff will perform in several zeniths and arenas in France, until the beginning of summer 2023. He will also perform in two festivals, the Nuits de Fourvière in Lyon and at the Festival de Nîmes. The ticket office for Michel Polnareff’s tour will open on November 16.

In addition to this tour, the singer unveils, this Friday, November 18, a new album, composed of covers of some of his most famous songs and called Polnareff by Polnareff. “I chose the ones that I think are essential (…) It was a complicated exercise, but I’m happy because it’s true. We have no drums, no guitar, very few effects, but we did not minimize the songs. It’s simple but rich”, confides Michel Polnareff to the Parisian.

The dates of Michel Polnareff’s tour

For this new tour, in 2024, Michel Polnareff will set off again on the roads of France in spring and summer. He will notably pass through Nantes, Poitiers, Orléans, Saint-Etienne, but also Toulouse, Bordeaux, Strasbourg or Brussels. Michel Polnareff will play at the Accor Arena in Paris on July 2, 2023. Here are all the dates of his tour:

  • May 24, 2023 – Nikaïa Palace – Nice
  • May 30, 2023 – Zenith – Nantes
  • May 31, 2023 – Arena Futuroscope – Poitiers
  • June 1, 2023 – Arena – Orleans
  • June 03, 2023 – Zenith – Saint Etienne
  • 04 June 2023 – Arena – Geneva
  • June 05, 2023 – Zenith – Dijon
  • June 09, 2023 – Arena – Brest
  • June 10, 2023 – Zenith – Rouen
  • June 11, 2023 – Zenith – Amiens
  • June 15, 2023 – Arena – Reims
  • June 16, 2023 – Nights of Fourvière – Lyons
  • June 17, 2023 – Galaxy – Amneville
  • June 18, 2023 – Zenith – Strasbourg
  • June 22, 2023 – Arkéa Arena – Bordeaux
  • June 23, 2023 – Zenith – Toulouse
  • June 24, 2023 – Zenith – Clermont Ferrand
  • June 30, 2023 – Forest National – Brussels
  • July 1, 2023 – Gayant Expo – duai
  • July 08, 2023 – Festival of Nimes

Michel Polnareff and Polnarêves

Michel Polnareff in one of the capital’s most famous nightclubs: last summer, the singer returned with a show called Polnarêves, an immersive experience, which started on Thursday June 2, 2022, at the Palace, a must for Parisian nights since the 1970s. The show was originally supposed to start on May 5, 2022, but was postponed due to technical problems. “Following defects in the delivery of part of the broadcast equipment allowing you to live the most perfect experience possible, we are forced to postpone to June 2 Polnarêvesthe immersive experience of Michel Polnareff at the Palace”, wrote the artist with white glasses on Twitter.

It was not a show, nor a traditional exhibition and even less a retrospective of his career. Polnarêves, it’s more like a visit to Michel Polnareff’s head, with 360° projections on the walls of a huge bubble, which tell his dreams, his life, through his songs. The immersive experience lasts 40 minutes, for a dreamlike “musical journey” in seven acts and screened seven times a day.

“During this immersive show, the spectator is somewhat in a virtual reality helmet but without a helmet. We can move around and change our point of view. Spatialized, the sound accompanies the visitor regardless of his position. Michel Polnareff chose the songs and the illustrations. Everything was done remotely. He discovered the final result on a 3D simulator,” artistic director Marc Benaïche told AFP.

“The immersive experience is an extraordinary journey designed with Michel Polnareff. His mythical and iconic songs take the viewer on an experience towards the unexpected and the explosion of musical images”, could we read in a press release from the Palace.



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