Tyla Joins Bruno Mars for ‘The Romantic’ Tour’s Australia and New Zealand Stadium Run
South African star Tyla will open every Oceania date in early 2027 as Bruno Mars expands one of the decade’s largest stadium tours.
Bruno Mars is bringing ‘The Romantic Tour’ to Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2027, and he is not coming alone. Two-time Grammy winner Tyla will join every show on the Oceania stadium run as special guest, a booking that turns an already oversized world tour into a more pointed event for this region.
The dates sit inside a wider expansion announced this week: 26 new stadium shows across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, plus a fifth Mexico City night later in 2026. With the additions, ‘The Romantic Tour’ now stretches past 115 stadium performances across North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico.
Anderson .Paak will appear on the newly announced shows as DJ Pee.Wee. The same nights also promise a special Silk Sonic performance, putting Mars and Anderson .Paak back onstage together. For local fans, that combination—Mars’ catalogue and new album material, a Silk Sonic reunion, .Paak on the decks and Tyla as featured guest—is the real story.
The itinerary
The Australia and New Zealand leg opens in the west and moves east before crossing the Tasman: Saturday, 13 February 2027 (Optus Stadium, Perth); Friday, 19 February and Saturday, 20 February (Marvel Stadium, Melbourne); Sunday, 28 February (Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane); Thursday, 4 March and Friday, 5 March (Accor Stadium, Sydney); and Saturday, 13 March (Eden Park, Auckland)
The run follows previously announced January 2027 dates in Japan and precedes a return to Asia, including multiple nights in Singapore and further stadium stops in Bangkok, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Manila and South Korea.
Bruno Mars last toured Australia in 2022 and New Zealand in 2018. This is his first stadium-scale return in years, built around ‘The Romantic’, the album that gave the tour its name and delivered one of the biggest opening chapters of his solo career.
Why Tyla is the booking that changes the night
Tyla’s assignment is specific: she is a special guest on all Australia and New Zealand dates, not a full-tour opener, framing the Oceania shows as a distinct chapter rather than a carbon copy of the North American and European legs.
Since her global hit, Tyla has moved from breakout to Grammy-winning international act with a sound that sits between pop, amapiano, and contemporary R&B. Putting her in front of stadium crowds in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Auckland is both a commercial calculation and a statement about where Bruno Mars wants the night to start—current, rhythmic, and internationally minded.
The Romantic Tour has already been defined by volume: multi-night stands at venues such as Wembley, SoFi Stadium, Rogers Stadium, and BC Place, record first-day sales, and a routing that keeps growing instead of winding down. The Oceania dates are part of that same pattern. Promoters and venues have presented the expansion as a response to demand rather than a late afterthought.
The New Zealand date at Eden Park is being positioned as a one-off stadium event for the country, supported in part by the government’s Events Attraction Package—a major international concert treated as both a music booking and an economic draw.
Tickets
Artist presale is Wednesday, 2 September 2026, with start times varying by city. Registration generally closes Sunday, 30 August 2026 at 11:59pm local time. General tickets go on sale Friday, 4 September 2026 through Ticketmaster and the official channels listed at BrunoMars.com.
What the night is likely to be
A Bruno Mars stadium show is still built on live-band precision, catalogue depth, and the kind of showmanship that made him one of the most reliable arena and stadium draws of the past 15 years. The Romantic gives the set new material. Silk Sonic gives it a reunion hook. DJ Pee .Wee gives it a different texture between or around the main set. Tyla gives the opening hour a contemporary international headliner in waiting.
A carefully stacked bill for seven stadium nights in Australia and New Zealand, with Tyla as the most significant new name on the poster. For audiences here, that is the booking that makes February and March 2027 feel like more than another stop on a world tour that already seems determined not to end
