Oh my God, Celine Dion

[RandySF]

Performed the closing song of the opening Olympics ceremony. She brought the city to tears.

[bahboo]

1. fitting conclusion to an unbelievable ceremony....

way to go France!

[msongs]

2. thought she lost her voice. did she perform well? nt

[RandySF]

3. So moving.

[yorkster]

8. She was spectacular.

She sang "Hymne à l'Amour made famous by Edith Piaf.

[msongs]

9. glad to hear she sings well again

[Srkdqltr]

4. She was absolutely wonderful. Im still wiping my eyes. The white gown in the rain.

[Lovie777]

5. I was surprised............

She looked well. The whole opening ceremony was the best and what fascinated me the most, the mechanical horse.

[Srkdqltr]

6. Yes that was amazing, and the runners with the torch, the 100yo in a wheelchair, the balloon. Just wow.

[brush]

7. I watched much of the ceremony. I enjoyed the singer on that high perch in the rain singing "La Marseillaise"...

the French national anthem, as I've just watched "CasaBlanca" again recently and was moved by the rendition there where the Victor Laslo character asked the band in Rick's Cafe Americain to play "La Marseillaise" to drown out the nazi officers singing one of their thug songs.

Rick Blaine the owner okay's it and the customers join in and quiet the nazis. It's a very moving scene as even one of the women collaborators at the bar with a nazi starts crying and yells, "Vive la France."

It's of course no news to most here that it's an almost prefect movie.

[wnylib]

10. The woman with the Nazi soldier as her date

was in real life French actress Madeleine Lebeau, who, at the time of the filming, was a refugee from Europe with her Jewish husband who was also in the film. Her tears were genuine, not acting, in that scene.

[brush]

13. Wow! I didn't know. Thanks for that info. Such a great film.

[viva la]

16. That is my fave scene ever.

Many of the actors were refugees from the Nazis. The tears were real. It was early1942... none of them knew if they'd ever go home again.

[Bev54]

11. Here is a twitter video.

Sorry it was all I could find.

Link to tweet

[beaglelover]

14. WOW! That looks like David Foster accompanying her.

[Bev54]

15. I thought it did as well but couldn't tell for sure, has all his mannerisms as well.

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. He accompanied her in Atlanta in '96

It was probably him.

[Drum]

17. Omg!!!

[TomSlick]

18. Wow - just wow.

[oasis]

22. Exquisite. Thank you Bev54

[sdfernando]

12. No doubt she was good.

but I always chuckle when, with regards to any musical production, someone comments about bring the audience to tears. That can be taken two ways you know. I'm sure that afterwards though, the crowd was not yelling "basta! basta!"

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. I'm glad she's well enough to perform n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

21. Prerecorded, like all of the musical performances, but yes...

she sounded good considering her health challenges.