The superstar nodded to past looks throughout her illustrious career — from “Bad Romance” to “Poker Face” — and fully realized the character of Mistress of

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.

American singer Lady Gaga returned to a massive audience for the first time in eight years to headline the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Friday night, dancing with model skeletons, fighting a dancer dressed as a monster and serving up a surprise encore.