{"id":671,"date":"2024-10-03T15:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=671"},"modified":"2024-10-03T15:13:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T15:13:43","slug":"exciting-andre-rieu-fans-dancing-aisles-leeds-first-direct-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"EXCITING: Andr\u00e9 Rieu Has Fans Dancing in the Aisles Again at Leeds First Direct Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/v13.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/andre_rieu.jpg\" alt=\"Andr\u00e9 Rieu\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I wish you a long and happy life<\/em>,\u201d says\u00a0<strong>Andr\u00e9 Rieu<\/strong>\u00a0at the end of the night before adding, \u201c<em>and a long life full of music<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the perfect end to a night which has seen the world-renowned Dutch violinist and conductor, and his sixty-piece orchestra delight fans with two hours of laughter, entertainment and, more importantly, incredible music at\u00a0<strong>Leeds First Direct Arena<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the\u00a0<strong>Johann Strauss Orchestra<\/strong>, Rieu is joined throughout the night by a stream of solo artists and groups who deliver breathtaking renditions of some huge songs. These renditions were all played out to a background of changing images.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rieu himself, you couldn\u2019t have wished for a more perfect host for the evening. Aside from being a world-renowned violinist and composer, Rieu has a huge, larger-than-life personality and a wicked sense of humour. From jokes about his bedroom routine to stopping the show to chat to latecomers, Rieu has the crowd laughing almost as much as he has them up and out of their seats waltzing around the arena.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Exodus Song \u2013\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Rieu (4K)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDkYUfJPjE0?feature=oembed\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Whether you like classical music or not, this really is a show to experience. Prior to \u201c<strong>Nessun Dorma<\/strong>,\u201d Andr\u00e9 Rieu jokes, \u201cIn other shows, there has been a standing ovation at the end of this next performance\u2026\u201d before pausing briefly with a knowing smile across his face. Five minutes later, and every single person was out of their seat as the three tenors performing the song raised the roof on the building.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one of a number of huge highlights, including \u201c<strong>The Blue Danube<\/strong>,\u201d which had couples pouring from all corners of the arena to a makeshift dancefloor on the arena. Balloons dropped from the encore while the empowerment anthem of the last two centuries, \u201c<strong>I Will Survive<\/strong>,\u201d had fans up and out of their seats again for this rousing rendition.<\/p>\n<p>Which takes us nicely back to the point where Andr\u00e9 Rieu asks repeatedly if the crowd are tired. Of course, the answer is no, they\u2019re not, which is all the encouragement needed for the conductor and his 60-strong orchestra to power through to a rousing finale of this incredible night of music and joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cI wish you a long and happy life,\u201d says\u00a0Andr\u00e9 Rieu\u00a0at the end of the night before adding, \u201cand a long life full of music.\u201d It\u2019s the perfect end to a night which has seen the world-renowned Dutch violinist and conductor, and his sixty-piece orchestra delight fans with two hours of laughter, entertainment and, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","jnews-360x180":"","jnews-750x375":"","jnews-1140x570":"","jnews-120x86":"","jnews-350x250":"","jnews-750x536":"","jnews-1140x815":"","jnews-360x504":"","jnews-75x75":"","jnews-350x350":"","jnews-featured-750":"","jnews-featured-1140":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Newssoccer","author_link":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/?cat=1\" rel=\"category\">Blog<\/a>","tag_info":"Blog","comment_count":"0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssoccer.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}