Mylenium Tour (tour)

The Mylenium Tour was Mylène Farmer's 1999–2000 concert tour in support of her fifth studio album, Innamoramento.

Critical reception and commercial success
According to the French magazine Instant-Mag, the "Mylenium Tour is more beautiful [than the 1996 tour] by the originality of the selection of songs, the grandiose stage, an entry even more impressive, and especially an overwhelming and perfect end, perhaps more comparable to that of the 1989 tour."

More than 450,000 people attended the concert series that cost more than 20 million euros.

A musical channel of the Russian television, MUZ TV, elected "Mylenium Tour" as the best concert at that year.

Set list
Introduction Act I Act II Act III Act IV Encore
 * 1) "Mylenium" (opening)
 * 2) "L'Amour naissant"
 * 1) "L'Âme-stram-gram"
 * 2) "Beyond My Control" (replaced by "Que mon cœur lâche" in Russia)
 * 3) "Rêver"
 * 4) "Il n'y a pas d'ailleurs" (not performed in Russia)
 * 5) "Mylène Is Calling (Interlude)"
 * 1) "Optimistique-moi"
 * 2) "Medley" ("Pourvu qu'elles soient douces" / "Libertine" / "Maman a tort" / "Sans contrefaçon")
 * 3) "Regrets"
 * 4) "Désenchantée"
 * 1) "Méfie-toi"
 * 2) "Dessine-moi un mouton"
 * 3) "California"
 * 4) "Pas le temps de vivre" (replaced by "Je t'aime mélancolie" in Russia)
 * 1) "Je te rends ton amour"
 * 2) "Souviens-toi du jour"
 * 1) "Dernier Sourire"
 * 2) "Innamoramento"
 * 3) "Mylenium" (closing)

Tour dates
There were a total of 43 shows, from September 21, 1999 to March 8, 2000, in four countries (France, Belgium, Switzerland and Russia):

Credits and personnel

 * Production: Tuxedo Tour
 * Editions: Requiem Publishing
 * Design entertainment: Mylène Farmer
 * Set designer: Guy-Claude François
 * Costumes designed by: Dominique Borg
 * Make-up & hair: Pierre Vinuesa
 * Lighting design: Fred Peveri
 * Sound: Laurent Buisson
 * Sound engineer: Thierry Rogen
 * Production director: Paul Van Parys
 * Musical direction: Yvan Cassar


 * Musicians: Yvan Cassar, Eric Chevalier (keyboards), Jeff Dahlgren, Brian Ray (guitar), Jerry Watts Jr (bass), Abraham Laboriel Jr (drums)
 * Choristers: Johana Manchec-Ferdinand, Esther Dobong' Na Essienne
 * Choreography: Mylène Farmer ("L'Âme-Stram-Gram", "Optimistique-moi", "Désenchantée", "Souviens-toi du jour"); Christophe Danchaud ("Méfie-toi", "Dessine-moi un mouton") ; Mylène Farmer and Christophe Danchaud ("Pourvu qu'elles soient douces").
 * Management: Thierry Suc
 * Dancers: Christophe Danchaud, Valérie Bony, Augustin Madrid Ocampo Jr, Midori Anami, Lysander O. Abadia, Andrew Cheng, Richard Patten, Corey Smith
 * Sponsors: NRJ, TF1, Coca-Cola
 * Photos: Claude Gassian
 * Design: Henry Neu / Com' N.B
 * Tour Truck Drivers: Andy Barr, Davey Forbes, Mark Philips, Rob Bailey.

Further reading and press

 * Julien Wagner, Jean-François Kowalski, Marianne Rosenstiehl, Claude Gassian, Mylène Farmer : Belle de scène (book on Farmer's tours), K&B Ed, 27 April 2007 (ISBN 291595707X)


 * "Ein (zu) diskreter Star", von Mary-Claude Taillens, Interview in Le Matin (Schweiz), March 10, 2000
 * "Mylènium-Universum", Olivier Sagnezchi, Article in Talkies Magazine, March 2000
 * Interview in Argumente i Fakte (Rußland), March 2000
 * Interview in Pulse (Rußland), March 2000
 * Article in einer russischen Zeitung, March 2000