MICHAEL SARDOU. After announcing his farewell to the stage in 2018, Michel Sardou returns for a new French tour.
[Mis à jour le 10 novembre 2022 à 14h12] However, he had said goodbye to the scene in 2018: Michel Sardou seems to have changed his mind. According to information from RTL, the French singer announces his return with a new tour. baptized I remember a goodbye, named after his song released in 1995, this series of concerts will include around thirty dates, the kick-off of which will be given on October 3, 2023 at the Zénith de Rouen. Michel Sardou will perform in Lille, Strasbourg, Nantes or Toulouse and will end on March 16, 2024 at Paris La Défense Arena, in front of 20,000 spectators. Tickets go on sale Monday, November 14 at 10 a.m.
In 2018, Michel Sardou had completed his last tour, aptly named the last dance, at the Seine Musicale in Boulogne-Billancourt. On RTL, at the time, he assured: “I think I’ve done my job enough, I’m not going to sing I will love you up to 83 years.” But obviously, he intends to do it until the age of 77. However, as he explains to the Parisian, he wanted to stay away from the spotlight to devote himself to the theater.
“Me, I have nothing to do with my return. For nothing! I didn’t want to come back… But I was taken in by my wife (…) she ended up persuading me. Anyway, she threatened to leave me and go back to her brother… She blackmailed me!” Michel Sardou told the newspaper.
What we know about Michel Sardou’s new tour
Michel Sardou’s new (and last this time?) tour will have 33 dates. “We will have twenty musicians, only new ones except my friend, my brother Pierre Billon, and choristers”, explains the singer to Parisian. On the program for these new concerts, “a mash-up” of Michel Sardou’s “essential hits”, with, he promises, “a surprising version of Connemara and forgotten songs, like Let’s talk about you, about me and I remember a goodbyesong that gave its name to this tour.
The dates of Michel Sardou’s tour
- October 3, 2023 – Zenith of Rouen
- October 17 and 18, 2023 – Zenith of Lille
- November 22, 2023 – Zenith of Strasbourg
- November 14 and 15, 2023 – Zenith of Nantes
- November 28, 2023 – Zenith of Toulouse
- March 16, 2024 – Paris La Defense Arena