Beyoncé opened the Renaissance World Tour at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden.
The first concert took place on May 10, 2023, at Friends Arena in the Stockholm suburb of Solna. The tour supported Renaissance, Beyoncé’s seventh studio album, and marked her first solo concert tour since The Formation World Tour in 2016. Its production used large-scale screens, elaborate costumes, a moving stage, and the recurring robotic horse imagery associated with the Renaissance era.
The tour traveled through Europe and North America before concluding in Kansas City on October 1, 2023. Stockholm’s venue is sometimes confused with other large Swedish arenas, especially Tele2 Arena or Avicii Arena, but Friends Arena hosted the opening performance. The tour was commercially enormous and became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of 2023.