After a five-year absence, Adele is back on the stage. The singer was the headliner for BST’s Hyde Park Summer Festival, in London. Throughout the concert, Adele was visibly moved to be back on stage and to be performing for a large live audience.
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Adele’s concert marks the first public show of her record, “30.” “My God, I’m back at home,” she said after opening the concert with “Hello.” “It’s so strange to be in front of a crowd again. I get so nervous before each show but I love being up here.”
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Per Rolling Stone, Adele’s concert was two hours long and featured an 18-song set list that featured highlights from her three records, “Skyfall” and her cover of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love.”
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Adele’s Hyde Park performance is her first public concert in five years. While she’s performed for crowds recently, they were all closed to public audiences.
© GettyImagesAdele at Hyde Park
This year, Adele was scheduled to perform in Las Vegas, where she had a residency that was meant to last from January to April. The dates were postponed because the show wasn’t ready and because production was plagued with Covid delays.
“Listen, I’m so sorry, but my show ain’t ready. We’ve tried absolutely everything that we can to put it together in time and for it to be good enough for you, but we’ve been absolutely destroyed by delivery delays and Covid,” Adele said at the time. “Half my crew, half my team are down with Covid — they still are, and it’s been impossible to finish the show, and I can’t give you what I have right now and I’m gutted.”
