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Adele · S8 E2
Weekends with Adele
The rescheduled residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. 100 shows. Every one sells out in minutes.
November 18, 2022, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace. Ten months after the tearful cancellation, Adele walks onto the redesigned stage, looks at 4,300 people who have waited nearly a year for this moment, and opens her mouth.
Adele's best Vegas residency moments (Entertainment Tonight). Highlights from Weekends with Adele at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace: the redesigned staging, the audience interactions, the rain, and the voice filling a 4,300-seat room night after night. This is the show that was worth waiting ten months for.
The Residency Format
A residency is the opposite of a tour. Same venue, same city, same audience distance every night. For an artist who hated the isolation of touring, it's the perfect solution: she performs on weekends, lives in one place, and Angelo goes to the same school every Monday. The format lets her give everything on stage without the road destroying her life offstage.
The Redesign
The original show design that Adele cancelled in January relied on heavy screens and pyrotechnics. The redesigned version strips everything back. The stage is more central, the audience wraps closer around her, and the production focuses on lighting and a rainfall effect that drenches the stage during the finale. It is the most intimate arena show in Las Vegas.
TAP TO REVEAL: What is the signature moment of Weekends with Adele that fans talk about most?
“"I'm so happy. I'm so glad I waited. This is exactly what I wanted the show to be."”
The Colosseum at Caesars Palace
The 4,300-seat venue that became Adele's home stage for over two years. The room where she proved that a residency can be as powerful as a world tour.
Why did Adele choose a residency format instead of a traditional world tour for the 30 era?
Viva Las Vegas, Elvis Presley
From Elvis Presley's 1964 single. Elvis defined the Las Vegas residency in the 1970s: 636 consecutive sold-out shows at the International Hotel between 1969 and 1976. Adele is his modern equivalent. Both artists chose Vegas not because they couldn't fill stadiums, but because they wanted to perform in the same room, at the same distance, every night. Elvis built the model. Adele perfected it.
Viva Las Vegas, Elvis Presley (1964)
Read the lyrics while you listen. Elvis wrote the anthem for the city that would define the last chapter of his career. Sixty years later, Adele moves into the same city for the same reason: a permanent stage where the audience comes to you. The song is pure joy. So is Weekends with Adele, on most nights.
Weekends with Adele
The residency is a triumph, but Adele isn't done with live performance yet. Next episode: a custom-built 80,000-seat outdoor arena in Munich, Germany, and the first time Adele performs in Europe in seven years.
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