Dion acted as a benevolent queen, always making it sound as if audience members were the one doing her a favor — by basking in her glow. She kept encouraging us to sing along, only to drown everyone out by belting just that much better over us. And she praised and thanked the crowd profusely for letting her and her “extended family” share the evening with us, “singing about love, about hope … about courage.”

What a coincidence: That last quality is the title of both her latest album, which topped the Billboard chart last fall, and her tour. The record itself felt like an afterthought and Dion sang only two cuts from it, the pensive, fairly restrained title track and the mildly dancey “Imperfections.” The rest of the set covered her entire catalog.

Dion is not someone who thinks she is too good for her hits, so she did most of them, including “Beauty and the Beast” with the backup singer Barnev Valsaint, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” and, of course, an encore of “My Heart Will Go On,” during which a battery of drones circled her as if she were a sorcerer in a batty science-fiction film. Sadly she skipped “I Drove All Night,” though she nodded at her fruitful French-language career with the bilingual “Tous les Blues Sont Écrits Pour Toi.” This was the kind of blues that includes scat-singing followed by some air punches, and makes you question the whole concept of authenticity — a trademark of the Dionizing process in general.