Lady Gaga left fans in awe as she took to the stage for a jaw-dropping performance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California on Friday night.

It’s the second time the pop star, 39, has headlined the annual music event, with her first being in 2017, but this time around she pulled out all the stops. 

The Paparazzi hitmaker ensured it would be a performance fans would never forget, opening her set with track Bloody Mary, in which she donned a showstopping red dress and stood in front of a gothic-style backdrop complete with gargoyles and angels – with some fans likening the visuals to a ‘satanic ritual’.

The set, which was split into four acts and described as an ‘opera house in the desert’ by the singer, then saw Gaga launch into songs including Abracadabra, Judas and Scheiße.

At one point, the stage turned into a giant chess board for the song Poker Face, with Gaga and her dancers performing a choreographed dance battle between two groups, with the star emerging victorious.

Amid the stunning visuals, striking sets, numerous costume changes and of course her killer vocals, it left fans all saying the same thing – that it was ‘the best Coachella performance of all time’.

Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, in the wake of her show, music lovers were quick to share their praise and admiration for Lady Gaga’s set.  

They penned: ‘oh lady gaga easily one of the best headliners in coachella history

‘I have no words. All I can say is this Lady Gaga set might be the greatest coachella set of all time.’

‘Lady Gaga absolutely devoured her opening to Coachella with Bloody Mary, Abracadabra, Judas & Scheiße this was more amazing then anything We could imagined’ 

‘lady gaga… you might have just taken that #1 spot for best coachella performance of all time.’

‘Satanic rituals, fighting doppelgangers, chess queen dance battles, zombies, unsettling crutch walks… It’s a Lady Gaga opera at Coachella. Our girl is back.’ 

‘lady gaga best coachella performance in HISTORY in my opinion so everyone else go home, coachella is cancelled.’

‘Lady Gaga’s Coachella set genuinely left me speechless. The creativity, the vocals, the storytelling, the visuals… Insane. One of the greatest performances of her career, and that’s saying a lot.’

Ahead of her Coachella performance, Lady Gaga expressed her excitement as she geared up to take to the stage. 

She told the New York Times last month: ‘I’m getting ready for Coachella, and I’m so, so excited, but I’ve definitely lost sleep a whole bunch of nights, and it’s because I want to do a great job.

‘If there’s a time and a date where you can make the public smile, from 11 p.m. to 1 in the morning on this day, I want to make it happen.’ 

In March, the Bad Romance songstress announced 2025 tour dates across the UK, North America and Europe, playing on iconic stages such as London’s O2 Arena and Madison Square Garden in New York. 

Tickets for the long-awaited tour go on sale Thursday, April 17. 

And it was recently announced that the Poker Face hitmaker is bringing her Mayhem Ball Tour to Australia at the end of the year to support her latest album, Mayhem. 

Gaga will play Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on December 5, Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on December 9 and Sydney’s Accor Stadium on December 12.

The tour marks eleven years since she performed in Australia on her ArtRave: The Artpop Ball tour in 2014. 

It will also be Lady Gaga’s first-ever leg of stadium shows Down Under.