Adele had to pause her first show in Munich to take off part of her dress after the arena was hit with heavy rain.
The British singer, 36, is performing a 10-date string of gigs in the German city this month in a bespoke 80,000-capacity arena, before a planned “big break” from music.
Friday night’s show was her first gig in Europe since 2016 after a two-year residency in Las Vegas.
Videos widely circulated online show two women taking the train from Adele’s dark blue floor-length dress while the Someone Like You singer addresses the crowd.
The singer says: “Sadly I have to take this gorgeous floor train off because it’s wet and heavy.”
She adds: “At least it’s not thunder and lightning. I got a weather update so they said it wasn’t going to be raining [at the] top of the show, so I thought, ‘let me wear this dress with this enormous train on it’, like a right fa—.”
The train was visibly dripping as Adele’s two helpers carried the material off stage.