Friday night's performance marked Lady Gaga's second time headlining Coachella, but in many ways it felt like her true first time.

Returning to the Indio festival for the first time since 2017, Gaga gave many songs from Mayhem their live debut while paying homage to her past iconography

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.