Rumors are growing about the concert for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. While the names of Aya Nakamura and Céline Dion are circulating, it is also their potential salary that is talking…
On social networks, the rumor has been growing for months. Aya Nakamura, the most listened to French singer in the world, should perform the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games this summer. To accompany him, it would be Céline Dion. And each would receive a famous fee: 700,000 euros for the Frenchwoman, 2 million euros for the Canadian.
Artists will not receive any fees.
The organizers of the Paris Olympics assured Friday that the artists who will be chosen for the opening ceremony on July 26 will not “will not receive a fee“.
In its edition published on Wednesday, the satirical weekly Le Canard aîné, citing an internal “budgetary reporting” document from the organizing committee (Cojo), states that the State was going to pay 2.7 million euros to pay for two ” top artists” who will participate in this opening ceremony in a unique format which will take place on July 26 on the Seine. The newspaper, which also writes that the singer Céline Dion is one of these two artists, assures that this decision was taken by the President of the Republic.It is the Cojo who chooses the artists“, refuted two sources close to the matter to AFP.
On Friday, organizers said that the artists who will be chosen will not “will not receive a fee for their service“. Only the “technical production and performance organization costs“will be taken care of, specify the organizers”as is customary“.
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