Adele has opened up about her delayed Las Vegas residency, telling Elle about the multiple factors that went into the last-minute decision to pull the plug. “There was just no soul in it. The stage setup wasn’t right. It was very disconnected from me and my band, and it lacked intimacy,” she told Emma Carmichael for the magazine. Read the interview, called “The Glorious Age of Adele,” at Elle.
Adele announced the postponement on January 20, a day before the residency was supposed to begin its run at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace. She worked with the entertainment architecture company Stufish on updating her Vegas stage to suit her vision, after the company had arranged the sequin-heavy backdrop for her February performance at the BRIT Awards. The singer told Elle that her new stage design was partially inspired by the shape of a mantlepiece surrounding a fireplace in her London home.
In late July, Adele announced that her residency had been rescheduled to begin in mid-November, running through late March 2023. Earlier in the summer, Adele had appeared for a two-night stand at London’s Hyde Park, her first public performances since 2017. She issued her fourth album, 30, last November and announced the original Vegas itinerary shortly thereafter.
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