‘The King of the Waltz’ has done it again! Breaking his own record from last year, André Rieu’s 2016 Maastricht Concert has taken more than £1.4 million at the UK and Ireland cinema box office, to become the highest grossing music concert of all time.
André Rieu’s 2016 Maastricht Concert screened at 544 cinema locations across the UK and Ireland this weekend and was attended by close to 100,000 people, grossing £1,408,251 (source: Rentrak). This surpasses last year’s Maastricht cinema broadcast, which was the first music concert to take over £1m at the UK box office on a single day – beating previous cinema events by One Direction, Ed Sheeran and Take That.
The concert also screened at 266 further cinemas across Europe, including in The Netherlands, Belgium, Romania, Germany, Spain and Poland. In Denmark, the 2016 concert also became the country’s highest grossing event cinema release of all time.
Further screenings will take place this coming weekend in Australia and New Zealand, followed by Canada, Brazil, France and South Africa with further territories to be announced in due course.
Affectionately known as ‘The King of the Waltz’, André Rieu performs a series of concerts in his hometown of Maastricht in The Netherlands every year in front of thousands of fans. He is joined by his Johann Strauss Orchestra, sopranos, tenors and special guests. The CinemaLive event has reached a growing audience since 2011 and is hosted by Good Morning Britain’s Charlotte Hawkins who introduces the cinema audience to Maastricht, the concert itself, and conducts an interview with André the moment he steps off stage, exclusively for cinema audiences – an interview which features questions submitted by cinema audiences in advance of the event. This year’s concert also featured 150 dancers dancing to ‘Lara’s Theme’ to celebrate 150 years of Johann Strauss.
Tickets have also just gone on sale for André Rieu: Christmas with André - a brand new Christmas event which will be shown in over 500 UK and Irish cinemas on Saturday 19th November at 5pm.
Check out the recent Music-News.com exclusive interview with Andre below.
