André Rieu, the Dutch violinist who founded the Johann Strauss Orchestra, brings his new show to OVO Arena Wembley with orchestra, choir and soloists.
André Rieu, the Dutch violinist who leads the Johann Strauss Orchestra, brings his new show to OVO Arena Wembley on Friday 17 September 2027. A choir and soloists join the orchestra.
Rieu was born in Maastricht in 1949, the son of the conductor of the Maastricht Symphony Orchestra. He began the violin at five and trained at conservatories in Liège, Maastricht and Brussels, where he took the Premier Prix.
He created the Johann Strauss Orchestra in 1987 with 12 musicians, and it gave its first concert on 1 January 1988. He plays a 1667 Stradivarius and still gives an annual concert series on the Vrijthof square in his home town.
He has sold more than 40 million albums and plays to more than 700,000 people a year. A film of one of his Maastricht concerts was the highest-grossing concert film in British cinema history by 2015.
The programme moves between waltzes, opera, musicals, film scores and ballads, played by an orchestra of 70.