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.