Madonna's Confessions World Tour is due to start in Los Angeles on May 21. In the run-up to the Confessions World Tour, Madonna will be performing at the Coachella festival on April 30, and will also release a remix album under the title Confessions Remixed.

Madonna's world tour starts off with Los Angeles, and will move to Canada, Europe and Japan. The content will be from Madonna's Confessions on a Dance Floor of last year. The Confessions world tour will wind through different arenas in the US from May to late July. The word tour will land up in Europe in September. The Japanese dates are not set yet.

Madonna's Confessions World Tour programme in the US:

May 21 - Inglewood, CA @ The Forum
May 27 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
May 30 - San Jose, CA @ HP Pavilion
June 5 - Fresno, CA @ Save Mart Center
June 8 - Glendale, AZ @ Glendale Arena
June 14 - Chicago, IL @ United Center
June 21 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
June 25 - Hartford, CT @ Civic Center
June 28 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
June 29 - New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
July 6 - Boston, MA @ TD Banknorth Garden
July 12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center
July 16 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Boardwalk Hall
July 22 - Miami, FL @ AmericanAirlines Arena

Rehearsals for the disco-themed Confessions World Tour are already on. The Madonna tour will be directed by Jamie King with Stuart Price again as musical director. Jean-Paul Gaultier will design costumes for Madonna's latest World Tour. According to Madonna's website, rehearsals are already under way in Los Angeles,

Confessions Remixed, a set of remixed songs will be released on May 1. The songs of the special edition remix album are "Hung Up" (SDP Extended Vocal) with "Hung Up" (SDP Extended Dub); "Sorry" (Man With Guitar Mix) and "Get Together" (Jacques Lu Cont Mix); and "I Love New York" (Thin White Duke Remix) with "Let It Will Be (Paper Faces Mix)." There will be only 3,000 copies of the Madonna special edition remix copies.

Madonna said that she hopes to turn the world into one big dance floor with the Confessions trip.

Regarding her upcoming performance at the Coachella festival, Madonna said: "I've never performed at a festival. And I'm especially excited about playing at Coachella before I start my own tour." Madonna's Coachella festival performance will be seen as a sort of warm-up for the Confessions World Tour.

In Europe, the pop diva is expected to play at Rome, Amsterdam and Paris. Tickets won't be cheap. In UK, the tickets for Wembley will go on sale at 9am on Friday, and cost from £80 to a £160 for the best seats.