Lady Gaga looked proud enough to weep. Peering out at the vast audience before her at Coachella on Friday night, the pop superstar paused about 45 minutes into her headlining performance to deliver a little speech — a royal address from Mother Monster to her loyal minions — from the second-story balcony of a crumbling gothic structure she’d built on the festival’s main stage.

Lady Gaga’s impressive Coachella 2025 performance played like an opera in four acts, each of them focused on a different part of her musical personalities.

Lady Gaga, the Just Dance singer, delivered a powerhouse performance last night as the headliner for the opening night of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, 2025, in Indio, California.