US pop star Katy Perry will perform in the Greater Region next summer, the organisers of a music festival in Nancy have confirmed.
Perry will appear on 12 July at the 2026 Nancy Open Air Festival. Tickets went on sale at the end of last week.
The cheapest ticket available as of Monday morning costs €84, going up to €144.50, for the performance at the Zénith du Grand Nancy, which has capacity for 20,000 people.
“We applied to her production company as part of her tour, and they and the artist agreed. They wanted venues that were different and atypical,” Geoffrey Loegel, head of communications at the organiser of the festival, Productions Label LN, told France 3 Grand Est.
Katy Perry, whose career exploded in the late 2000s and early 2010s, embarked on an international tour in April this year, playing almost a hundred dates all over the world.
The Lifetimes Tour, which accompanies the 41-year-old Californian’s seventh album, 143, will make a stop at Nancy, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle départment, about an hour-and-a-half by car from the Grand Duchy.
Perry joins an increasingly eclectic line-up for the festival, that includes Sabaton, Gojira and Electric Callboy on 5, 6 and 7 June as part of the “Heavy Weekend”. The very popular French artist of Congolese origin, Gims, has been announced for 20 June.
As soon as Perry’s appearance in Lorraine was announced, Label LN Productions predicted a rush on ticket sales.
Late on Wednesday, Ici Lorraine reported that the first day of pre-sales had been a resounding success, with 12,000 tickets sold.
“When Katy Perry’s date was announced, we saw a fair amount of interest, which we hadn’t necessarily had for Gims because he tours regularly,” Loegel said. “It’s reminiscent of the year we did Muse and Måneskin when we got a real buzz. This is the first time that our website has sold 12,000 tickets in a single day.”
(This article was originally published by Virgule. Machine translated, with editing and adaptation by John Monaghan.)
