The Comeback Tour (Chinese: 巡唱) was the fifth concert tour by Chinese recording artist Faye Wong, marking her return to public performance after several years of concentrating on her family.
Background
She began her return in February 2010, performing at the CCTV New Year's Gala watched by over 700 million people, covering Li Jian's ballad "Legend".Faye Wong, Tigers highlight CCTV Spring Festival gala, CRI, 16 February 2010 Later in July 2010, she first announced a series of comeback concerts starting from 29 October 2010 onwards, namely 5 in Beijing and another 5 in Shanghai. To satisfy huge overseas market demand, she declared to have more concerts in other cities of Mainland China, Taipei in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and also Singapore.Faye Wong kicks off comeback concert in Beijing (illustrated), Sina Corp.com, 30 October 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2010.
Despite her lengthy absence, interest in the concert tickets was overwhelming: in Mainland China tickets worth nearly 200 million yuan (US$29 million) were taken up in just 10 days while in Taiwan the computerized ticketing system crashed due to excessive traffic, and 90 percent of the tickets were sold within two hours after it was restored. The story repeated itself in Hong Kong, with 93% of the tickets gone in one morning and 2 ticketing phone lines added to the 3 existing one, to catch up with the huge demand.Faye Wong adds 4 More Cities to her Comeback Tour
Setlists Faye performed 23 songs for all the concerts except Hong Kong and Zhengzhou, where she performed 24 tracks. The intro music of this concert tour was partly extracted from a song called "Vainly Like Dreams (浮华若梦)", which is performed by Kubert Leung, who is also the music director of the tour.Faye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 01 of 25 Opening + 雪中莲 – YouTube The music of the interludes were re-composed and partly extracted from a few Faye's songs, namely "Heart Sutra (心经)", "Dream Lover (梦中人)", "The Cambrian Age (寒武纪)" and "Flower of Paradise (彼岸花)".Faye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 11 of 25 过场音乐 – YouTubeFaye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 17 of 25 过场音乐 – YouTubeFaye Wong 王菲 2010巡唱 第九场 20101127 Part 22 of 25 过场音乐 – YouTube The song "Heart Sutra" was not performed live by Faye but rather played as the background music to end the concert. However, this was not done for the first 5 concerts held in Beijing. In fact it was only started since the Shanghai concert, with the original intention of giving condolences to the casualties in the fire accident on 15 November 2010.【中視新聞991122】王菲獻唱心經 悼上海火災遇難者 – YouTube But, there was an exception to this for the last two concerts held in Zhengzhou, where Faye performed "Heart Sutra" live after the usual ending song "Flower of Paradise". The table below only lists down the songs performed live by Faye for all the 46 concerts, excluding the interlude music and songs mentioned previously. The symbol * serves as the key to note the first appearance of the said song in this concert tour.
Tour dates
The theme of the concert tour was "Four Seasons and Reborn".
+List of concert dates Date City Country Venue Attendance29 October 2010BeijingChinaWukesong Arena50,00030 October 201031 October 20105 November 20106 November 201019 November 2010Shanghai王菲2010巡唱官网_腾讯娱乐_腾讯网Mercedes-Benz Arena—20 November 201026 November 201027 November 201028 November 201021 January 2011TaipeiTaiwanTaipei Arena33,00022 January 201123 January 20114 March 2011Hong Konghttp://urbtix.cityline.com.hkChinaAsiaWorld–Arena—5 March 20116 March 201110 March 201111 March 201113 May 2011GuangzhouGuangzhou International Sports Arena26,00014 May 201127 May 2011Nanjing大麥票務 Nanjing Olympic Sports Centre Gymnasium—28 May 20112 July 2011Changsha大麥票務 Hunan International Convention & Exhibition Center—3 July 201126 August 2011Wuhan大麥票務Wuhan Sports Center Stadium20,00027 August 201129 October 2011SingaporeSingapore Indoor Stadium6,5006 November 2011Kuala LumpurMalaysiaAxiata Arena—26 November 2011Harbin大麥票務 ChinaHICEC Gymnasium—27 November 20119 December 2011Chengdu大麥票務 Chengdu Sports Centre—10 December 201123 December 2011Xi'anQujiang International Convention and Exhibition Center—24 December 201118 February 2012Chongqing大麥票務 Chongqing Olympic Sports Center—19 February 201231 March 2012Kunming大麥票務 New Asia Sports City—1 April 201220 April 2012Xiamen大麥票務 Xiamen International Convention & Exhibition Center—21 April 201212 May 2012DalianJinshitan Jinshi Cultural Plaza—13 May 201223 May 2012Hefei大麥票務 Binhu International Convention Center—24 May 20128 June 2012ZhengzhouHenan Provincial Stadium—9 June 2012
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