Celine to sing again Tuesday at Caesars Palace

When you do 965 Las Vegas shows in 13 years, not all of them are going to come easy.

Celine Dion opened at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace the day the United States went to war with Iraq in March 2003. Before the end of that first year, she had to cancel shows when her father died. And vocal issues including inflammation of her throat muscles have caused other shows to be called off as well.

But Tuesday brings the 47-year-old singer's first show since the January death of Rene Angelil, her husband and the manager who guided her career. The first three songs and her first speech to the audience will be live-streamed on Celinedion.com at 7:30 p.m. PST.

The singer canceled Colosseum dates on Jan. 16 and 17 after Angelil died on Jan. 14, following an extended and public battle with throat cancer. Two days later, one of her 13 siblings, Daniel, also died of cancer.

Dion did speak at a Feb. 2 memorial gathering to celebrate Angelil in the Colosseum, which she called her "home away from home" and said she could "feel the strength" from those who attended the event open to the public.

"I know what it takes to perform and to be onstage and to give our best," Dion said that night in the course of noting her husband never spoke ill of another performer. "Sometimes our best is the 30 percent of what we have left in us, because we're sick, because it's all that we have left in us. We give it all. It's not always perfect."

Angelil discovered the singer when she was 12 and put all his resources into promoting her. The two were married in 1994. He stepped down as her official manager in the summer of 2014.

That August, the singer's camp announced she would take a hiatus from her Caesars schedule for more than a year to devote all her energies to his cancer battle. She returned with a reconfigured show this past August.

"He protected me from Day One for the rest of my life, I am pretty sure of that," Dion said at Angelil's memorial service. "He didn't want me to hear the roughness of what a meeting is all about (when you make demands). He wanted me to focus. Focus on what he believed that I could do best, sing."

Other Caesars Entertainment and AEG Live officials used the memorial to remind fans of the couple's giving back during their Las Vegas years, with benefits for Opportunity Village, sickle cell research and company employees affected by Katrina in 2005.

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