Shania Twain announces two-year residency at Ceasars Palace in Las Vegas

Nashville, Tenn., United States (Celebrity News Service) - Watch out, Celine Dion! Shania Twain has landed a two-year residency show in Las Vegas.

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During a news conference in Nashville on Wednesday, the country singer announced she will be heading to the Vegas strip after a seven-year career hiatus.

"I will let my imagination run wild," she told reporters about the new deal. "I'm going to go nuts creatively."

The show, dubbed "Shania: Still The One," will open Dec. 1, 2012, and is set to run for at least two years at the 4,3000-seat Colosseum arena in Caesars Palace.

It is reported that Twain, whose real name is Eileen Regina Edwards, will be the first country music headliner at the venue.

It has been a "healing" year for the 45-year-old country crooner.

Last month, her own documentary series, "Why Not? With Shania Twain," premiered on the Oprah Winfrey Network.

She also recently released her first biography, "From This Moment On," which chronicles the 2008 demise of her 14-year marriage to music producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange after he had an affair with Twain's best friend, Marie-Anne Thiebaud.

The singer, who shares a 9-year-old son with her ex-husband, had said she feared that she would never sing again because of the emotional experience of the divorce and an ailment called dysphonia, in which muscles squeeze the voice box.

Months after her divorce was finalized in June 2010, Twain's manager confirmed she was engaged to Swiss business executive Frederic Thiebaud, the ex-husband of Thiebaud. They married in January in Puerto Rico.

"It's been a healing year," Twain told People magazine in January. "I've learned how to commit myself and put that into healing, instead of fear and anxiety, which is a big turnaround."

Twain said her commitment to the Vegas shows is part of the recovering process.

"I just can't wait. I wish I could just get started tomorrow," Twain said. "I feel as though I'm about to step into a world of endless creative possibilities."