Vespertine World Tour
# Vespertine World Tour

The Vespertine World Tour was a tour by the singer Björk that focused on her album Vespertine. She also performed songs from Debut, Post, Homogenic and Selmasongs. She performed 35 shows on this tour and 31 different songs. The tour band consisted of harpist Zeena Parkins, electronic duo Matmos, a Greenlandic choir and a 70-piece orchestra (local to each venue). The tour was released on DVD as Live at Royal Opera House and the concert held at the Orchard Hall in Tokyo, Japan was broadcast on Japanese TV-station WOWOW. A separate release, Vespertine Live, contains a selection of Björk's favourite performances from throughout the Vespertine tour, while a tour documentary, Minuscule, was also released.

In early August 2001, Björk confirmed the first set of dates for the Vespertine World Tour which would take place at opera houses, theatres, and small venues, with favourable acoustics for the concerts. She enlisted Matmos, Zeena Parkins, a choir of Inuit girls from Greenland, and conductor Simon Lee; the tour opened at the Grand Rex in Paris on 18 August. While in Paris, she held a press conference to discuss the album but gave no individual interviews saying that: "she'd rather do music than talk about it." While in France she also received the National Order of Merit at the Ministry of National Education in Paris. Another press conference was held in Barcelona on 3 November 2001 while touring in Spain. A 16 December 2001 performance at the Royal Opera House in London was released as the DVD Live at Royal Opera House in 2002. A DVD release featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the tour, titled Minuscule, was released at the end of 2003. Vespertine Live, a live album consisting of songs recorded during the Vespertine World Tour, was included in the 2003 box set Live Box; it also includes a live version of "All Is Full of Love", a song from Homogenic.

## Opening acts

* Matmos

## Songs Performed

| Song | Album |
| - | - |
| "Frosti" | Vespertine |
| "Overture" | Selmasongs |
| "All Is Full of Love" | Homogenic |
| "Aurora" | Vespertine |
| "Undo" | Vespertine |
| "Unravel" (Live tour debut) | Homogenic |
| "I've Seen It All" (Live tour debut) | Selmasongs |
| "An Echo, A Stain" | Vespertine |
| "Generous Palmstroke" | Vespertine (b-side) |
| "Hidden Place" | Vespertine |
| "Cocoon" | Vespertine |
| "Unison" | Vespertine |
| "Harm of Will" | Vespertine |
| "It's Not Up to You" | Vespertine |
| "Pagan Poetry" | Vespertine |
| "Possibly Maybe" | Post |
| "Isobel" | Post |
| "Hyperballad" | Post |
| "Human Behaviour" | Debut |
| "Jóga" | Homogenic |
| "It's In Our Hands" (Unreleased at the time) | Greatest Hits |
| "You've Been Flirting Again" | Post |
| "Army of Me" | Post |
| "Bachelorette" | Homogenic |
| "Play Dead" | Debut (b-side) |
| "Venus as a Boy" | Debut |
| "The Anchor Song" | Debut |
| "Who Is It" (Unreleased at the time) | Medúlla |
| "Pagan Poetry" (Music Box) | Vespertine (b-side) |
| "Aurora" (Music Box) | Vespertine (b-side) |
| "Gotham Lullaby" (Meredith Monk cover) | Meredith Monk cover |

## Tour dates

| Date | City | Country | Venue |
| - | - | - | - |
| Europe ||||
| August 18, 2001 | Paris | France | Le Grand Rex |
| August 20, 2001 | Paris | France | Le Grand Rex |
| August 23, 2001 | Paris | France | Sainte-Chapelle |
| August 25, 2001 | Paris | France | Sainte-Chapelle |
| August 29, 2001 | London | England | St John's, Smith Square |
| North America ||||
| September 6, 2001 | New York City | United States | Riverside Church |
| Europe ||||
| September 11, 2001 | Stuttgart | Germany | Liederhalle Hegel-Saal |
| September 13, 2001 | Lausanne | Switzerland | Salle Métropole |
| September 15, 2001 | Lausanne | Switzerland | Salle Métropole |
| September 18, 2001 | Frankfurt | Germany | Alte Oper |
| September 21, 2001 | Roubaix | France | Colisée |
| September 23, 2001 | London | England | The Coliseum |
| September 26, 2001 | Brussels | Belgium | Le Botanique |
| September 29, 2001 | Amsterdam | Netherlands | Muziektheater |
| North America ||||
| October 4, 2001 | New York City | United States | Radio City Music Hall |
| October 5, 2001 | New York City | United States | Radio City Music Hall |
| October 8, 2001 | Toronto | Canada | Hummingbird Centre |
| October 12, 2001 | Boston | United States | Wang Center |
| October 14, 2001 | Chicago | United States | Civic Opera House |
| October 17, 2001 | Oakland | United States | Paramount Theatre |
| October 22, 2001 | Los Angeles | United States | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion |
| Europe ||||
| November 1, 2001 | Paris | France | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées |
| November 4, 2001 | Barcelona | Spain | Liceu |
| November 8, 2001 | Parma | Italy | Teatro Regio |
| November 10, 2001 | Rome | Italy | Teatro dell'Opera di Roma |
| November 13, 2001 | Cologne | Germany | Cologne Opera |
| November 15, 2001 | Berlin | Germany | Deutsche Oper |
| November 18, 2001 | Lyon | France | Auditorium Maurice-Ravel |
| Asia ||||
| December 2, 2001 | Tokyo | Japan | Hitomi Kinen Kōdō |
| December 5, 2001 | Tokyo | Japan | Bunkamura Orchard Hall |
| December 7, 2001 | Tokyo | Japan | Tokyo International Forum |
| Europe ||||
| December 16, 2001 | London | England | Royal Opera House |
| December 19, 2001 | Reykjavík | Iceland | Laugardalshöll |
| December 21, 2001 | Reykjavík | Iceland | Háskólabíó |
