Céline Dion Shares a Family Photo From Metallica’s Las Vegas Sphere Show
Céline Dion is at the front of the picture, smiling with both hands in the air. Behind her are her sons Eddy and Nelson and Jack Black, who leans into the frame in a black cap and a shirt with a bright green graphic. The stands at Sphere in Las Vegas stretch out behind them. It looks like the kind of group photo you take because you want to remember who was there when the band came on.
Dion shared the image on Instagram Stories after attending Metallica’s final Sphere show of 2026 on November 7. The photograph was taken in the seating area. She later shared a separate group of pictures from backstage, where she and her sons met the band.
The Saturday concert was Dion’s second visit that week. She had also been at the November 5 show, when a clip caught her playing air bass during guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo’s instrumental spot. Two nights later, footage from the audience showed her getting into the music again with Black nearby.
Metallica opened the November 7 set with “Blackened,” the first track on …And Justice for All. By the time the band got to “Enter Sandman,” cameras in the crowd caught Dion moving to the riff and raising her arms while Black sang along. It’s the moment that makes the cheerful family photo a little easier to imagine in motion.
Black is familiar to rock audiences through Tenacious D and School of Rock. In the footage, he also does something most concertgoers recognize: he mouths the words and waits for the guitar break to put both hands in the air. Watch the space between him and Dion, then see how quickly both of them fall into the same rhythm.
The family picture takes in just one row of the venue. The clip gives you a sense of what that row sounded like, with Metallica coming through the speakers and the people around the camera singing and cheering along.
The photos she shared after the show
The next day, Dion shared photos from her visit backstage with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Hammett and Trujillo. She thanked the four musicians for welcoming her family. Along with the formal group shot, the gallery included playful pictures of Dion and Trujillo pulling faces for the camera, and a black-and-white image of her with Hetfield.
The two evenings closed out the fall run of Life Burns Faster at Sphere. Metallica used different setlists for the paired shows, giving anyone who went twice two versions of the same weekend. Dion came away with several snapshots of it, from the family picture in the stands to the one with the band after the show.
