Adele has kicked off her Las Vegas tour residency Weekends ten months after she postponed the anticipated concert series in a move that sparked controversy.
Adele became teary-eyed during her performance for a crowd of more than 4,000 on November 18 at the Colosseum at Caesar’s Palace, which also featured her son Angelo, 10, and her boyfriend, sports agent Rich Paul.
“Thank you so much for coming back to me,” she told the crowd, according to The Guardian. “It looks just like I imagined it would.”
Adele opened the show with her 2015 hit ballad “Hello” and later performed songs such as “Easy on Me,” “Rumor Has It,” “Skyfall,” “Someone Like You,” Rolling in the Deep,” “Set Fire to the Rain” and “When We Were Young.” While performing the latter track, the singer walked into the audience and at one point, embraced her boyfriend.
Adele appeared on stage in a black velvet off-the-shoulder dress, a silk wrap fastened around her waist with a gold brooch, and no shoes. Her stylist, Jamie Mizrahi, told The Wall Street Journal that she will be wearing no shoes. “Or, if she prefers, we do have socks. Therefore, [the dress] must reach the floor.”
Adele made an emotional Instagram video announcement on Jan. 20, the day before her Las Vegas residency was supposed to start, “I’m very sorry, but my show isn’t prepared. Although we did everything in our power to put it together quickly and to your satisfaction, delivery delays and COVID completely wrecked us.”
During her concert Nov. 18, Adele addressed the backlash over the postponement. “I’d really like to thank Caesars because there has been a lot of s–t written about me since I cancelled my shows,” she said. “I tell you 90 percent of it is absolutely completely made up—there’s been rumors that I’m moving hotels and I’m moving theaters and all this and never once did they ask any questions.”
