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Cinema experience 2024 Kinepolis Breda and Pathé Den Haag

Power of love. De Limburger June 12, 2024, by Rob Cobben. André Rieu's Vrijthof concerts can be seen in three thousand cinemas: "A gesture for people who cannot be there" A recording of the upcoming concerts by André Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra on the Vrijthof can be seen in three thousand cinemas in more than sixty countries from the end of August. Distributor "Piece of Magic" announced this on Tuesday. Twenty-five cameras record the performances of Rieu and his orchestra on the Maastricht square. The film, titled "Power of Love," will premiere on August 31. The viewer will see a combination of classical music, musicals and popsongs which Rieu and his orchestra will perform during the twelve concerts in Maastricht, in the period from Thursday 4 to Sunday 21 July 2024. These performances are almost sold out. It is not the first time that a film of the Vrijthof concerts has appeared in cinemas. “We started ten years ago and it immediately turned out to be a great success,” says Caspar Nadaud of the Amsterdam distribution company Piece of Magic. “Last year's concert recording was attended by almost 400,000 people. What is also booming: the Christmas concerts in the MECC. We started this three years ago and it is attracting more and more viewers.” According to Nadaud, the films are a nice gesture to people who would like to go to a Rieu concert, but cannot go for various reasons. “We receive great reactions from all over the world.” The concerts on the Vrijthof are recorded with about 25 cameras under the direction of Michel Fizzano, says Nadaud. About fifty people are involved. Fizzano has previously made films about Rieu concerts in Bucharest, Dublin and London. For each country where the film is shown, a different presenter has been recruited. “That increases the connection with the viewer,” says Nadaud. For the United Kingdom it is Charlotte Hawkins of the ITV channel. And Polish viewers will receive a report from Maja Jasinska, who plays as a flutist in Rieu's orchestra. André van Duin has been the regular reporter for the Netherlands in recent years, but he does not have time this year, says Nadaud. “Now Pierre, André's son, is doing the honors.” The various reporters interview André Rieu after his concerts. “That is an absolute added value for cinema viewers. Because if you go to his concerts, you won't get that...” Check: www.andreincinemas.com

Printer's error on the Dutch sheet: all the pieces of music are of course conducted by André, only those with an asterisk were arranged by him.

On August 31, 2024, Ruud and I happened to be in the city of Breda, where we watched the film Power of Love (The Vrijthof concert 2024) in the Kinepolis cinema.

At the venue we were festively welcomed with a free glass of prosecco or orange juice, on behalf of André Rieu. Although we had seen the concert in Maastricht many times, we loved to see the cinema version again. It was brilliant to see a 3-hour concert summarized (recorded on three days live with more cameras, sky motes and drones) into a shorter cinema version, included interviews (for us presented by Pierre in Dutch) and more images added from the audience. Of course they had to shorten or leave out some music pieces. To our joy we recognized a lot of friends in the audience: Kathy, Julia, Adele, Heather, Beth Stevens, Han, John, Hanne, Jorge and Marisol, Sue Homewood. Karen Grandvaux reported that she had been peed by the bull!! We also spotted André’s brother Robèrt Rieu in the audience. In the row in front of us sat a young man with his family. During the break we got to talking and it turned out that he had participated in the brass section. On the credits list at the end of the film all the names of the more than 400 brass players were mentioned. When the young man saw his name scrolling across the screen, he went crazy. The first names of all the piccolos also scrolled across the screen. How wonderful!! We look forward to the next cinema showing (Sept.7th in The Hague) and we wonder if the Pathé cinema in The Hague also offers us a festive glass on behalf of André... They did not do that every year. When I asked around on Facebook, Torben Esbensen responded that the cinema in Sonderborg, Denmark, serves prosecco every year with an André film.

Presentation, interviews, conclusion and voice-over by Pierre Rieu. Translation, subtitles, by Ineke, Ruud and John de Jong. Duration: 10 minutes. We know that Charlotte Hawkins presented the English version, Andrea Ballschuh the German version and the JSO flutist Maja Jasinska the Polish version. We are curious: What was the difference compared to Pierre’s Dutch presentation? Please, Let us know! Announcement of the Christmas 2023 movie Gold and Silver: In cinemas from December 7th 2024. Tickets on sale. check www.andreincinemas.com

This year the Pathé cinema in The Hague did not serve free glasses of prosecco (or orange juice). They did a few times, several years ago, and we wondered why one cinema does and another cinema does not. We asked them and they replied that they will serve prosecco with the Christmas movie in December. To our surprise they staryted to serve free bottles with water during the break. Why?? It turned out that the air conditioning had broken down in the cinema!

This Pathé cinema at the Buitenhof (street) is located in a historic building from 1904, which was then the restaurant of Hotel "Des Deux-Villes" (the two cities). The wrought iron of the balcony comes from Vienna.