The world tour, which was postponed by two years due to the pandemic, is Lady Gaga first since 2018.
On Sunday, Lady Gaga returned to the stage for the first show of the highly anticipated Chromatica Ball Summer Stadium Tour.
After a two-year delay, the tour was initially postponed in June 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Kicked off with a sold-out concert in front of 54,000 spectators at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf.
The concert marked the first live public appearance of Gaga’s sixth best-selling studio album, Chromatica. Fan favorites from the album featured on a list of 20 songs. Including “Rain on Me,” “Stupid Love,” “Replay,” “Free Woman,” “911,” and “Alice.”
Other songs include hits from the singer’s significant discography like “Bad Romance,” “Poker Face,” “Shallow,” and more (though songs from Gaga’s 2013 album Artpop and her 2016 album Joanne appear to have been abandoned). The show ended with “Hold My Hand,” a single released in May and written for Top Gun: Maverick.
Of course, since this is Gaga, Chomatica’s ball tour is fill with theatrical and over-the-top avant-garde outfits. Including the dramatic hairstyle she paired with a black latex bodysuit.
The piano is embedded in a beautiful thorn sculpture.
She was also photograph in a red ensemble with a jacket with dramatic puff sleeves and a bodysuit paint with tape over her nipples. Another look saw Gaga in a head-to-toe gray look with high-waisted pants tied. Finally, in a video Gaga uploaded to Instagram on Sunday morning, the artist gives fans a behind-the-scenes look at a show she hasn’t been on since 2018.
“The scene was inspire by brutal architecture, materials, textures, ruggedness, and transparency. A wild and raw look at yourself, what you’ve been through,” he said. “I wanted to tell a story with abstraction and art, so this show celebrates things I’ve always loved like art and fashion, dance. Music and technology, poetry, and how it all works together.”
He continued, “Everyone worked hard on this show, and we love you. We are so grateful.