Set list and more thoughts about Adele's first night at the X

A few more thoughts about Adele's performance Tuesday at Xcel Energy Center, which she returns again Wednesday.

She is much more relaxed and confident as an arena performer. She mentioned that she was so "scared" in 2011 that when she played Xcel Energy Center, she had the stage placed in the middle of the arena to cut the room in half.

Although Adele has a great sense of style, her show is not about spectacle. There are no dancers, production numbers or costume changes. The only special effect is a rain shower that falls around her during "Set Fire to the Rain." Unlike Beyonce and Justin Bieber, who are using similar effects on their current tours, Adele does not get wet or splash in the water.

Her main stage is surprisingly smallish by arena tour standards. She mostly stood on a tiny diamond shaped platform while her musicians – four horns, eight string players, three backup singers and her six-piece band-- stood behind her on a wide, triangle shaped platform.

Adele starts the show on a satellite stage in the middle of the arena. Squeezed into a large case, she is wheeled to the stage before the houselights go out. We'd call that rolling in the dark.

Adele shimmied and swayed a bit during "Rumour Has It." But she would never call it dancing. Live, that song wasn't as punchy as the record.

As my review stated, one cannot stop raving about her voice. She is a master of grace and restraint. Among the other magic moments not mentioned in the review were the deep-note ending on "Make You Feel My Love," the little trills in "Rumour Has It" and the deeply felt "Someone Like You," which she introduced as "This song became my new boyfriend." She did mention its cowriter, Dan Wilson, but she didn't know that he spent most of his life and career in Minneapolis before moving to Los Angeles about six years ago.

Two songs seem musically inspired by Burt Bacharach – "Chasing Pavements" and "All I Ask," co-written with Bruno Mars.

There was a short acoustic set, during which Adele sat down.

The British star explained that she swore 33 times in 90 minutes last weekend at the huge Glastonbury fest in the U.K. She dropped only a handful of f-bombs in her 135 minutes onstage Tuesday.

For those keeping score, Adele did eight songs from 2015's "25," which has sold more than 19 million copies and counting. She offered six songs from 2011's "21," which has sold more than 31 million copies. "Skyfall," her Oscar-winning James Bond theme, was the only outlier from her three albums – except for playing a video of Prince's "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." Several of the songs from "25" seem arena-ready, especially the haunting "I Miss You."

This was the opening of her North American tour. The set list was similar to the ones played in the European leg of her world tour -- save for the Prince video.

SET LIST

Hello/ Hometown Glory/ One and Only/ Rumour Has It/ Water Under the Bridge/ I Miss You/ Skyfall/ Million Years Ago/ Don't You Remember/ Send My Love (To Your New Lover)/ Make You Feel My Love/ Sweetest Devotion/ Chasing Pavements/ Someone Like You/ Set Fire to the Rain ENCORE video of Prince's The Most Beautiful Girl in the World/ All I Ask/ When We Were Young/ Rolling in the Deep