This is Shakira's fourth live DVD, so you may wonder whether she can add something new to the series, but as someone who knows the first three by heart I can reassure you that the new offering is a combination of the reassuringly familiar with the new and inventive.
Very familiar and mostly unchanged are the songs at the hard core of her repertoire from the 90s albums Pies descalzos and Donde estan los ladrones. As far as I can tell, she hasn't changed a note in her own favourite, Inevitable, since the MTV unplugged concert, and Si te vas, and Ciega sordomuda are similarly steadfast reminders of the good old days.
A lovely new feature is the medley made of A'tini al-Nay (an Arabic song she used to sing as a child), the Metallica cover Nothing else matters, and her own Despedida from the Love in the times of cholera soundtrack. Travel around the world in just a few minutes. Within the same "acoustic" setting is a much-improved version of Gipsy.
Since I saw the show at Paris in December 2010, she added a French song (Je l'aime a mourir by Francis Cabrel) and switched a few more of her announcements to French, which is a nice touch.
The DVD with 99 minutes of concert footage and 20 mins "behind the scenes" extras is perfect as always. Note that this edition is DVD only and does not include the CD. The CD+DVD pack has its UK release a week later:
Live from Paris(The CD contains as much of the concert as fits on a single audio CD, which means a couple of songs (Si te vas, Gordita) were dropped, and the A'tini al-Nay snippet was cut too.)
Her last words on the concert recordings are "a la prochaine" (until the next time), so I'm looking forward to the next tour and DVD ...